Death's Fingers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Death's Fingers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Potent Poisoning Potion ×12, Growth Formula Gamma ×4 and Quicksilver ×8 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 38 units, plus 76 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,698 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,458 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 64 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 50 Water Shard and 26 Lightning Shard.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 49 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 4 come 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.