Forging Bench

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Forging Bench is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Clinker Bricks ×8 and Dwarven Mythril Ingot ×4 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 56 units, plus 124 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,997 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,379 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 56 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 68 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Water Shard, 28 Earth Crystal, 28 Fire Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Armorer to Lv 80, Blacksmith to Lv 78 and Alchemist to Lv 39 — 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, Dwarven Mythril Ingot has the widest use: 168 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.