Budding Ash Wand

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Budding Ash Wand is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ash Wand ×1, Growth Formula Beta ×3 and Quicksilver ×3 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,216 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Water Shard and 2 Lightning Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 21 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

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, Quicksilver has the widest use: 22 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.