Yew Picatrix

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Yew Picatrix is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cotton Yarn ×1, Enchanted Iron Ink ×1 and Yew Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 7 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 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 4 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Water Shard, 2 Lightning Shard and 2 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 22, Carpenter to Lv 21 and Weaver to Lv 12 — 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, Cotton Yarn has the widest use: 58 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.