High Steel Gauntlets of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Steel Gauntlets of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — High Steel Ingot ×2, Gyuki Leather ×1 and High Steel Nugget ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 27 units, plus 25 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,763 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 962 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Fire Crystal, 6 Earth Crystal and 4 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 63, Blacksmith to Lv 62 and Leatherworker to Lv 62 — 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.