Leather Shoes

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Leather Shoes is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Leather ×1 and Rubber ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 3 units, plus 4 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 426 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Earth Shard, 1 Water Shard and 1 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 4 and Alchemist to Lv 7 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Rubber is a Lv 7 Alchemist recipe feeding a Lv 4 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

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.