Ahriman Vase

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ahriman Vase is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Brass Ingot ×2 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 742 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Wind Shard and 4 Fire Shard.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 14 intermediate up to the Lv 39 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 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, Brass Ingot has the widest use: 94 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.