Velveteen Sarouel

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Velveteen Sarouel is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1, Undyed Velveteen ×1, Dew Thread ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 9 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 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Lightning Shard, 2 Wind Shard and 1 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 25 and Leatherworker to Lv 17 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Aldgoat Leather has the widest use: 98 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.