Bismuth Ring of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Bismuth Ring of Fending is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Bismuth Ingot ×1, Grade 5 Vitality Alkahest ×1 and Phrygian Gold Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 660 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 84, Blacksmith to Lv 84, Goldsmith to Lv 84 and Alchemist to Lv 83 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 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, Bismuth Ingot has the widest use: 104 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.