Smilodonskin Trousers of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Smilodonskin Trousers of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Smilodon Leather ×3, Bloodhempen Yarn ×1, Bright Linen Cloth ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 28 units, plus 40 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,936 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,414 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Earth Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal and 7 Lightning Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 71, Weaver to Lv 71 and Goldsmith to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 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, Durium Nugget has the widest use: 142 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.