Budding Oak Wand

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Budding Oak Wand is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Growth Formula Alpha ×1, Hi-Potion of Mind ×1 and Quicksilver ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 16 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,059 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 8 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Water Shard and 7 Lightning Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 38 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 6 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.