Dark Dhalmelskin Gloves

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Dark Dhalmelskin Gloves is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Dhalmel Leather ×2, Iron Rivets ×1, Ramie Thread ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Earth Crystal, 4 Wind Crystal, 2 Fire Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 55, Weaver to Lv 54 and Blacksmith to Lv 18 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 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, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.