Steel Mitt Gauntlets

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel Mitt Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Boar Leather ×1, Iron Plate ×1, Steel Plate ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 26 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 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 11 Fire Shard, 8 Ice Shard and 7 Earth 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 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.