Steel Gauntlets

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Steel Plate ×2, Brass Ingot ×1, Steel Rings ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 20 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,876 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 757 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Ice Shard, 10 Fire Shard, 5 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 30, Blacksmith to Lv 26, Leatherworker to Lv 26 and Goldsmith to Lv 14 — 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.