High Steel Armguards of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Armguards of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — High Steel Nugget ×2, Bloodhempen Yarn ×1 and Gagana Leather ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 694 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Crystal, 5 Earth Crystal, 3 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 61, Blacksmith to Lv 61, Leatherworker to Lv 61 and Weaver to Lv 61 — 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, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.