Padded Cotton Trousers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Padded Cotton Trousers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Hard Leather ×1, Iron Rivets ×1, Undyed Cotton Cloth ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 664 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 4 Lightning Shard, 2 Fire Shard, 1 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 20, Blacksmith to Lv 18 and Leatherworker to Lv 8 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 4 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.