Jade Scepter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Jade Scepter is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Raptor Leather ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 504 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Shard, 6 Wind Shard and 5 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 49 and Leatherworker to Lv 41 — 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, Raptor Leather has the widest use: 64 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.