High Durium Armor of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one High Durium Armor of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — High Durium Ingot ×3, Almasty Serge ×1, Gaja Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 63 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,907 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,153 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 48 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal, 15 Earth Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 83, Blacksmith to Lv 82, Goldsmith to Lv 82, Weaver to Lv 82 and Leatherworker to Lv 81 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Gaja Leather has the widest use: 79 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.