Manganese Gloves of the Rising Dragon

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Manganese Gloves of the Rising Dragon is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Manganese Ingot ×2, Bismuth Ingot ×1, Grade 5 Strength Alkahest ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 56 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 988 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal, 16 Earth Crystal, 8 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

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

7 of the 9 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.