Cotton Breeches of Crafting

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cotton Breeches of Crafting is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Undyed Cotton Cloth ×2, Leather ×1 and Cotton Yarn ×5 — which resolve to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 557 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 19 and Leatherworker to Lv 1 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

1 of the 2 raw materials matches a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes 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.