Cobalt Vambraces

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Vambraces is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×2, Boar Leather ×1, Raptor Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 49 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 642 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 39 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Shard, 15 Ice Shard and 14 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 44, Blacksmith to Lv 42 and Leatherworker to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.