Vintage Round Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Vintage Round Shield is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Mahogany Lumber ×2, Iron Rivets ×1, Lanolin ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 602 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 17 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Shard, 5 Water Shard, 2 Fire Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 43, Alchemist to Lv 40 and Blacksmith to Lv 18 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.