Steel Goggles

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Steel Goggles is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1, Clear Glass Lens ×1, Steel Plate ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 839 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard, 5 Water Shard, 4 Wind Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 34, Alchemist to Lv 28, Armorer to Lv 27, Blacksmith to Lv 26 and Leatherworker to Lv 17 — 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.