Wind-up Lakshmi ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Wind-up Lakshmi is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Steppe Serge ×2, Palladium Nugget ×1, Worsted Yarn ×7 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 25 units, plus 123 crystals.

That bill outweighs 9,313 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,219 of the 1,968 Weaver ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 100 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 50 Earth Shard, 50 Wind Shard, 12 Lightning Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Weaver to Lv 70, Goldsmith to Lv 68 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 8 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 4 come 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.