Zelkova Ring

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Zelkova Ring is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Varnish ×1, Zelkova Lumber ×1 and Linseed Oil ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 549 of the 1,552 Carpenter ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 10 Wind Crystal, 8 Water Shard and 5 Ice Crystal.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Carpenter to Lv 69 and Alchemist to Lv 41 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

3 of the 4 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, Varnish has the widest use: 114 recipes call for it, spanning four of the eight crafting classes.