Gryphonskin Trousers ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gryphonskin Trousers is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Coeurl Fur ×1, Gryphonskin Shin Guards ×1, Undyed Felt ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,247 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Earth Crystal, 5 Lightning Shard, 3 Earth Cluster and 2 other kinds.

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 9 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 6 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.