Cobalt-plated Caligae

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt-plated Caligae is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Brass Ingot ×1, Cobalt Plate ×1, Cobalt Rivets ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 616 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Shard, 11 Ice Shard, 10 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 46, Blacksmith to Lv 43, Leatherworker to Lv 41 and Goldsmith to Lv 14 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 7 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.