Patrician's Bottoms

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Patrician's Bottoms is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Electrum Ingot ×1, Linen Yarn ×1, Undyed Felt ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 839 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Lightning Shard, 11 Wind Shard and 2 Water Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 50, Goldsmith to Lv 42 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 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, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.