Felt Hat

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Felt Hat is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Undyed Felt ×2, Electrum Ingot ×1, Woolen Yarn ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 916 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 21 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 17 Lightning Shard, 10 Wind Shard and 4 Water Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 44, Goldsmith to Lv 42 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — 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, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.