High Steel Mail of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Mail of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — High Steel Ingot ×3, Bloodhempen Cloth ×2, Gagana Leather ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 39 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,756 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,247 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Crystal, 6 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 63, Blacksmith to Lv 62, Leatherworker to Lv 61 and Weaver to Lv 61 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 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.