High Steel Battleaxe

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Battleaxe is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — High Steel Ingot ×3, Larch Lumber ×1, Wing Glue ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 43 units, plus 35 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,178 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,542 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 28 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 25 Fire Crystal, 4 Water Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 63, Carpenter to Lv 62 and Alchemist to Lv 55 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 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.