Iron Sabatons

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Iron Sabatons is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Iron Plate ×2, Bronze Rings ×1, Hard Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 642 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard, 4 Ice Shard and 2 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 19, Blacksmith to Lv 16 and Leatherworker to Lv 8 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 4 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, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.