Chimerical Felt

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Chimerical Felt is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Natron ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 7 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 610 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 58 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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.

Chimerical Felt is itself consumed by 113 further recipes, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.