Rarefied High Durium Kite Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied High Durium Kite Shield is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — High Durium Ingot ×2, Luncheon Toad Leather ×1 and Palm Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 47 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 808 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 32 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Crystal, 15 Earth Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 83, Blacksmith to Lv 82, Carpenter to Lv 82 and Leatherworker to Lv 82 — 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, Luncheon Toad Leather has the widest use: 88 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.