Heavy Iron Flanchard

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Heavy Iron Flanchard is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Iron Ingot ×5, Iron Rings ×2 and Aldgoat Leather ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 660 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard, 4 Ice Shard and 3 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 25, 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.