Whispering Ash Wand

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Whispering Ash Wand is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Ash Wand ×1, Growth Formula Beta ×2 and Quicksilver ×2 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,122 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Water Shard and 3 Lightning Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 27 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come 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.