Manganese Armor of the Behemoth Queen

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manganese Armor of the Behemoth Queen is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Grade 5 Strength Alkahest ×2, Manganese Ingot ×2, Bismuth Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 33 units, plus 64 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 16 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, 16 Earth Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Armorer to Lv 87, Blacksmith to Lv 86, Leatherworker to Lv 86, Weaver to Lv 84 and Alchemist to Lv 83 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 10 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, Manganese Ingot has the widest use: 134 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.