Elm Crook

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Elm Crook is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Elm Lumber ×1 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 437 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Carpenter work, from a Lv 16 intermediate up to the Lv 19 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

1 of the 2 raw materials matches 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.