Steel Elmo

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel Elmo is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Steel Plate ×2, Steel Rivets ×1, Toad Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 27 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 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Fire Shard, 9 Ice Shard and 5 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 31, Blacksmith to Lv 29 and Leatherworker to Lv 26 — 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.