Velveteen Doublet Vest of Gathering

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Velveteen Doublet Vest of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Aldgoat Leather ×1, Silver Ingot ×1, Undyed Velveteen ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 768 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Lightning Shard, 5 Wind Shard and 1 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 33, Goldsmith to Lv 23 and Leatherworker to Lv 17 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 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, Silver Ingot has the widest use: 157 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.