Egret Dolabra

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Egret Dolabra is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×3, Boar Leather ×1, Cobalt Plate ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 699 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 30 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Shard, 10 Earth Shard, 6 Wind Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 48, Carpenter to Lv 45, Armorer to Lv 43 and Leatherworker to Lv 33 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.