Cobalt Claws

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Claws is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Brass Ingot ×1, Cobalt Plate ×1, Horn Glue ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 41 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 757 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Shard, 6 Earth Shard, 6 Wind Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 49, Armorer to Lv 43, Carpenter to Lv 39, Alchemist to Lv 30 and Goldsmith to Lv 14 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 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.