Darkhempen Trousers of Fending

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Darkhempen Trousers of Fending is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Dark Hempen Cloth ×3, Dwarven Cotton ×1, Dwarven Mythril Ingot ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 29 units, plus 61 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,170 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,376 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 46 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 39 Lightning Crystal, 8 Earth Crystal, 7 Fire Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 81, Leatherworker to Lv 81 and Blacksmith to Lv 78 — 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, Dwarven Mythril Ingot has the widest use: 168 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.