Metal Gauntlets

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Metal Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Gazelle Leather ×2, Molybdenum Ingot ×2, Ruby Cotton Yarn ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 26 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,543 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 942 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 26 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Earth Crystal, 10 Fire Crystal, 5 Water Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 70, Blacksmith to Lv 68, Leatherworker to Lv 68, Alchemist to Lv 66 and Weaver to Lv 62 — 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, Molybdenum Ingot has the widest use: 109 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.