Altered Cobalt Gauntlets

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Altered Cobalt Gauntlets is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Cobalt Plate ×2, Boar Leather ×1, Cobalt Rings ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 61 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 780 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 49 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 25 Fire Shard, 21 Ice Shard, 10 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 50, Blacksmith to Lv 42, Goldsmith to Lv 42 and Leatherworker to Lv 33 — 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, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.