Linen Deerstalker

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Linen Deerstalker is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Undyed Linen ×1, Undyed Velveteen ×1, Linen Yarn ×4 and 2 others — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totaling 8 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 610 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Lightning Shard and 4 Wind Shard.

Every step is Weaver work, from a Lv 12 intermediate up to the Lv 40 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

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, Linen Yarn has the widest use: 74 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.