Gargantuaskin Hat of Gathering

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gargantuaskin Hat of Gathering is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Gargantua Leather ×2, Black Star ×1, Rroneek Serge ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 21 units, plus 56 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,152 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,103 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 40 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Earth Crystal, 16 Wind Crystal, 8 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 100, Goldsmith to Lv 98, Weaver to Lv 96 and Alchemist to Lv 95 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 5 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, Black Star has the widest use: 161 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.