Steel Vambraces

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel Vambraces is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×2, Steel Plate ×1 and Steel Ingot ×2 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 540 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Ice Shard, 5 Earth Shard and 4 Fire Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 31, Blacksmith to Lv 26 and Leatherworker to Lv 17 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 4 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.