Steel-plated Jackboots

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel-plated Jackboots is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1, Steel Plate ×1 and Steel Ingot ×2 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 519 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Ice Shard, 4 Earth Shard and 4 Fire Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 30, Blacksmith to Lv 26 and Leatherworker to Lv 17 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.