Red Ribbon ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Red Ribbon is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — AR-Caean Velvet ×4, Star Quartz ×2, Ophiotauros Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 39 units, plus 78 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,756 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,689 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 72 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 32 Lightning Crystal, 32 Wind Crystal, 8 Earth Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 90, Goldsmith to Lv 88 and Leatherworker to Lv 88 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 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, Star Quartz has the widest use: 157 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.