High Durium Armguards of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Durium Armguards of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — High Durium Nugget ×2, Dwarven Cotton ×1, Gaja Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 46 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 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 31 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 81, Blacksmith to Lv 81, Leatherworker to Lv 81 and Weaver 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, Dwarven Cotton has the widest use: 165 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.