Woolen Trousers of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Woolen Trousers of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Cobalt Rivets ×1, Raptor Leather ×1, Undyed Woolen Cloth ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 695 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Lightning Shard, 10 Fire Shard, 5 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 47, Blacksmith to Lv 43 and Leatherworker to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Undyed Woolen Cloth has the widest use: 154 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.