High Durium Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Durium Shield is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Gaja Leather ×1, High Durium Nugget ×1 and Lignum Vitae Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 616 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Earth Crystal, 8 Fire Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 81, Blacksmith to Lv 81, Leatherworker to Lv 81 and Carpenter to Lv 78 — 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, Lignum Vitae Lumber has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.