Iron Scale Fingers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Iron Scale Fingers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1, Iron Plate ×1 and Iron Ingot ×3 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 555 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Shard, 3 Ice Shard and 2 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 23, Leatherworker to Lv 17 and Blacksmith to Lv 16 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 3 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.