Amateur's Thighboots

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Amateur's Thighboots is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Hard Leather ×1, Rubber ×1, Undyed Hempen Cloth ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totaling 4 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 457 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 4 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Earth Shard, 2 Lightning Shard, 1 Water Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 9, Alchemist to Lv 7 and Weaver to Lv 2 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 3 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.