Wand of Flames

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wand of Flames is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Eye of Fire ×1, Growth Formula Gamma ×1 and Quicksilver ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 17 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 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Water Shard, 5 Lightning Shard and 2 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 45 and Goldsmith to Lv 23 — 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.