Botanist's Workboots ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Botanist's Workboots is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Hippogryph Leather ×2, Undyed Felt ×1 and Natron ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 691 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Earth Crystal, 5 Lightning Shard, 2 Water Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50, Weaver to Lv 43 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 4 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Hippogryph Leather has the widest use: 131 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.