Vintage Chef's Apron

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Vintage Chef's Apron is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Undyed Linen ×1, Undyed Velveteen ×1, Dew Thread ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 664 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Lightning Shard and 1 Lightning Crystal.

Every step is Weaver work, from a Lv 12 intermediate up to the Lv 40 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 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, Linen Yarn has the widest use: 74 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.