Cotton Kecks

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Cotton Kecks is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Undyed Cotton Cloth ×2, Iron Ingot ×1, Leather ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 11 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 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Lightning Shard, 2 Wind Shard, 1 Earth Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 24, Blacksmith to Lv 16 and Leatherworker to Lv 1 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 3 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, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.