Hose of Happiness ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Hose of Happiness is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Ophiotauros Leather ×3 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 847 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Earth Crystal, 3 Earth Cluster and 3 Wind Cluster.

Every step is Leatherworker work, from a Lv 88 intermediate up to the Lv 90 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

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.

Of the intermediates, Ophiotauros Leather has the widest use: 153 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.