Retainer Counter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Retainer Counter is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Oak Lumber ×4, Peiste Leather ×2, Steel Ingot ×2 and 2 others — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,613 of the 1,844 Leatherworker ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 29 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Wind Shard, 13 Earth Shard, 4 Fire Shard and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Leatherworker to Lv 39, Carpenter to Lv 32, Blacksmith to Lv 26 and Alchemist to Lv 15 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

6 of the 8 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, Steel Ingot has the widest use: 125 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.