Wand of Frost

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wand of Frost is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Eye of Ice ×1, Growth Formula Gamma ×1 and Quicksilver ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 917 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Water Shard, 4 Lightning Shard and 2 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 39 and Goldsmith to Lv 22 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 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, Growth Formula Gamma has the widest use: 31 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.