Water-hardened Hippogryph Strap ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Water-hardened Hippogryph Strap is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Gryphonskin Strap ×1 and Hippogryph Leather ×2 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 50 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 23 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Earth Shard, 21 Wind Shard and 6 Earth Crystal.

Every step is Leatherworker work, from a Lv 50 intermediate up to the Lv 50 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, Hippogryph Leather has the widest use: 131 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.