Rarefied Ruby Cotton Gilet

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rarefied Ruby Cotton Gilet is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Ruby Cotton Cloth ×2, Gyuki Leather ×1, High Steel Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 22 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,065 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Lightning Crystal, 6 Fire Crystal, 3 Earth Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 64, Blacksmith to Lv 62 and Leatherworker to Lv 62 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 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, High Steel Nugget has the widest use: 133 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.