Cobalt Tungsten Knuckles

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cobalt Tungsten Knuckles is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Cobalt Tungsten Ingot ×3, Moon Gel ×1, Pink Beryl ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 71 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,335 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 56 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 40 Fire Crystal, 16 Wind Crystal, 8 Water Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 94, Goldsmith to Lv 94 and Alchemist to Lv 85 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 8 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, Cobalt Tungsten Ingot has the widest use: 105 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.