Gryphonskin Bandana ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gryphonskin Bandana is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Hard Hippogryph Leather ×1, Tourmaline ×1, Undyed Felt ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 21 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 958 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 19 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Earth Crystal, 5 Lightning Shard, 5 Wind Shard and 3 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 50, Weaver to Lv 43, Goldsmith to Lv 41 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 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.