Hard Leather Himantes

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hard Leather Himantes is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Hard Leather ×2, Iron Ingot ×1, Undyed Hempen Cloth ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 7 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 598 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Earth Shard, 2 Lightning Shard, 1 Fire Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 14, Blacksmith to Lv 16 and Weaver to Lv 2 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Iron Ingot is a Lv 16 Blacksmith recipe feeding a Lv 14 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

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.