Molybdenum Headgear of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Molybdenum Headgear of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Molybdenum Ingot ×2, Gazelle Leather ×1, Grade 1 Reisui of Vitality ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 11 distinct raw materials totalling 30 units, plus 36 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,368 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,081 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 26 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Earth Crystal, 10 Fire Crystal, 9 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 68, Blacksmith to Lv 68, Leatherworker to Lv 68, Weaver to Lv 68 and Alchemist to Lv 66 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

10 of the 11 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, Molybdenum Ingot has the widest use: 109 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.