Garden Pond ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Garden Pond is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Growth Formula Gamma ×8, Terminus Putty ×4 and Quicksilver ×8 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 88 units, plus 41 crystals.

That bill outweighs 13,437 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 2,173 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 38 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 32 Water Shard, 4 Water Cluster, 2 Lightning Cluster and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 50 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Terminus Putty has the widest use: 69 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.