Potted Azalea

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Potted Azalea is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Growth Formula Gamma ×2, Iron Ingot ×2, Yew Lumber ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 21 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,315 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Water Shard, 4 Wind Shard, 3 Lightning Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 33, Carpenter to Lv 21 and Blacksmith to Lv 16 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 7 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, Iron Ingot has the widest use: 113 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.