Cotton Tabard

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cotton Tabard is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Undyed Cotton Cloth ×2, Hard Leather ×1 and Cotton Yarn ×5 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 610 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Lightning Shard, 1 Earth Shard and 1 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 16 and Leatherworker to Lv 8 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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

Of the intermediates, Undyed Cotton Cloth has the widest use: 71 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.