Potted Axilflower

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Potted Axilflower is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Growth Formula Gamma ×2, Steel Ingot ×2 and Quicksilver ×2 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 20 units, plus 19 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,876 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,279 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Water Shard, 4 Fire Shard and 3 Lightning Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 33 and Blacksmith to Lv 26 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 8 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.