Highland Boots

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Highland Boots is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Rubber ×1, Undyed Woolen Cloth ×1 and Woolen Yarn ×3 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 537 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Lightning Shard, 5 Earth Shard, 4 Wind Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 40, Weaver to Lv 39 and Alchemist to Lv 7 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

1 of the 3 raw materials matches a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.