Altered Cobalt Elmo

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Altered Cobalt Elmo is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×2, Cobalt Rivets ×1, Raptor Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 56 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 660 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 45 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 30 Fire Shard, 16 Ice Shard and 10 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 45, Blacksmith to Lv 43 and Leatherworker to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 4 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, Cobalt Ingot has the widest use: 145 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.