Iron-plated Jackboots

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Iron-plated Jackboots is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1 and Iron Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 466 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Earth Shard, 2 Ice Shard and 1 Fire Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 22, Leatherworker to Lv 17 and Blacksmith to Lv 16 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 4 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.