Angler's Hat

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Angler's Hat is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Peiste Leather ×1, Undyed Linen ×1 and Linen Yarn ×2 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 16 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 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Lightning Shard, 4 Earth Shard and 4 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 36 and Leatherworker to Lv 38 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Peiste Leather is a Lv 38 Leatherworker recipe feeding a Lv 36 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

3 of the 4 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.