Cobalt Zweihander

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Zweihander is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Ingot ×3, Electrum Ingot ×1, Raptor Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 43 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 781 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Fire Shard, 11 Earth Shard and 11 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 48, Carpenter to Lv 45, Goldsmith to Lv 42 and Leatherworker to Lv 41 — 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, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.