Manganese Kite Shield

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manganese Kite Shield is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ironwood Lumber ×1, Kumbhira Leather ×1 and Manganese Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 642 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Earth Crystal, 8 Fire Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Armorer to Lv 86, Blacksmith to Lv 86, Carpenter to Lv 86 and Leatherworker to Lv 86 — 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, Manganese Ingot has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.