Giantsgall Longsword ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Giantsgall Longsword is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Diluted Vitriol ×9 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,240 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 50 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

None of the 3 raw materials do not appear in the gathering data, so the whole bill comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Diluted Vitriol has the widest use: 13 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.