Dragonskin Codex

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Dragonskin Codex is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Dragon Leather ×2, Enchanted Hardsilver Ink ×1, Hardsilver Ingot ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 10 distinct raw materials totalling 35 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 11,223 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,435 of the 1,591 Alchemist 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 10 Earth Crystal, 9 Water Crystal, 9 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses four disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 57, Goldsmith to Lv 56, Leatherworker to Lv 56 and Blacksmith to Lv 52 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

8 of the 10 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, Hardsilver Ingot has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.