High Steel Katzbalger

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Katzbalger is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — High Steel Nugget ×2, Beech Lumber ×1, Dhalmel Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,196 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Crystal, 6 Wind Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 61, Carpenter to Lv 61, Goldsmith to Lv 61, Alchemist to Lv 55 and Leatherworker to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 9 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 4 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.