Zelkova Fishing Rod

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Zelkova Fishing Rod is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 6 intermediates — Zelkova Lumber ×2, Molybdenum Ingot ×1, Palladium Nugget ×1 and 3 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 24 units, plus 38 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,926 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 904 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 21 Wind Crystal, 5 Fire Crystal, 5 Ice Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses five disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 70, Blacksmith to Lv 68, Goldsmith to Lv 68, Weaver to Lv 66 and Alchemist to Lv 25 — 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, Palladium Nugget has the widest use: 129 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.