Elm Cane

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Elm Cane is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Elm Lumber ×1, Growth Formula Beta ×1 and Quicksilver ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 509 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Water Shard, 2 Wind Shard and 1 Ice Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 18 and Alchemist to Lv 15 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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.

Of the intermediates, Elm Lumber has the widest use: 68 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.