Connoisseur's Varsity Shoes ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Connoisseur's Varsity Shoes is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Iridescent Silk ×1, Kumbhira Leather ×1 and Iridescent Silk Thread ×3 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 724 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Earth Crystal, 6 Lightning Crystal, 4 Earth Cluster and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 90 and Weaver to Lv 72 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Kumbhira Leather has the widest use: 68 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.