Highland Barding

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Highland Barding is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Undyed Woolen Cloth ×2, Elm Lumber ×1 and Woolen Yarn ×7 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 788 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Shard, 5 Earth Shard and 5 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 40, Weaver to Lv 39 and Carpenter to Lv 16 — 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, Undyed Woolen Cloth has the widest use: 154 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.