Cobalt-plated Jackboots

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt-plated Jackboots is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×1, Raptor Leather ×1 and Cobalt Ingot ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 36 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 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Shard, 11 Ice Shard and 10 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 45, Blacksmith to Lv 42 and Leatherworker to Lv 41 — 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.