Dragon Fang Needle

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Dragon Fang Needle is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Cloud Mica Whetstone ×1, Dark Chestnut Lumber ×1, Hardsilver Ingot ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,074 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 18 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Wind Crystal and 4 Fire Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 56 and Carpenter to Lv 54 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

5 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Hardsilver Ingot has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.