Steel-plated Caligae

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel-plated Caligae is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Boar Leather ×1, Steel Plate ×1, Steel Rivets ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 580 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 16 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Shard, 7 Earth Shard and 7 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 35, Leatherworker to Lv 33 and Blacksmith to Lv 29 — 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.