Maddening Daggers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Maddening Daggers is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Paralyzing Potion ×1 and Quicksilver ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 5 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,201 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 826 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Water Shard, 3 Lightning Shard and 1 Earth Crystal.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 35 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, Quicksilver has the widest use: 22 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.