Curved Stepping Stumps ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Curved Stepping Stumps is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Varnish ×10 and Linseed Oil ×10 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 53 units, plus 82 crystals.

That bill outweighs 12,925 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,373 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 80 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 80 Water Shard, 1 Ice Cluster and 1 Wind Cluster.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 50 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

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, Varnish has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.