Palladium Rod

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Palladium Rod is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Palladium Nugget ×2, Beetle Glue ×1, Durium Nugget ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 33 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,346 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 19 Wind Crystal, 10 Fire Crystal and 4 Water Crystal.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 69, Blacksmith to Lv 68 and Alchemist to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

7 of the 9 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, Durium Nugget has the widest use: 142 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.