Giantsgall Knifelock ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Giantsgall Knifelock is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Diluted Vitriol ×9 and Black Firesand ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,327 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 4 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Water Shard, 2 Water Cluster and 1 Lightning Cluster.

Every step is Alchemist work, from a Lv 32 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Black Firesand has the widest use: 37 recipes call for it, spanning three of the eight crafting classes.