Skybuilders' Counter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Skybuilders' Counter is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Beetle Glue ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 10 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 808 of the 1,441 Armorer ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 4 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Ice Crystal, 4 Water Crystal and 2 Earth Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Armorer to Lv 70 and Alchemist to Lv 64 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

4 of the 6 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, Beetle Glue has the widest use: 54 recipes call for it, spanning five of the eight crafting classes.