Ash Picatrix

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ash Picatrix is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ash Lumber ×1, Cotton Yarn ×1 and Enchanted Copper Ink ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,090 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 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 Lightning Shard, 2 Water Shard and 1 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 13, Weaver to Lv 12 and Carpenter to Lv 10 — 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, Ash Lumber has the widest use: 60 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.