Vintage Square Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Vintage Square Shield is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Bronze Rivets ×1, Cider Vinegar ×1, Elm Lumber ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 568 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Shard, 1 Earth Shard, 1 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 35, Culinarian to Lv 16, Blacksmith to Lv 3 and Leatherworker to Lv 1 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Bronze Ingot has the widest use: 76 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.