Red Beret

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Red Beret is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Undyed Velveteen ×1, Undyed Woolen Cloth ×1, Woolen Yarn ×3 and 2 others — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totaling 8 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 610 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 10 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 Lightning Shard and 4 Wind Shard.

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

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.