Initiate's Thighboots

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Initiate's Thighboots is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1, Hard Leather ×1, Rubber ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totaling 6 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 537 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Earth Shard, 2 Lightning Shard, 1 Water Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 21, Weaver to Lv 13 and Alchemist to Lv 7 — 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, Rubber has the widest use: 191 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.