Ao Dai ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ao Dai is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Twinthread ×2 and Palladium Nugget ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 10 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 799 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Wind Crystal, 2 Lightning Cluster, 2 Lightning Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Weaver to Lv 70 and Goldsmith to Lv 68 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 5 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, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.