Scientist's Monocle ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Scientist's Monocle is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Black Star ×1, Ra'Kaznar Ingot ×1 and Magnesia Whetstone ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 30 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 907 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Crystal, 8 Water Crystal, 8 Wind Crystal and 2 other kinds.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 100, Blacksmith to Lv 98 and Alchemist to Lv 95 — 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, Ra'Kaznar Ingot has the widest use: 166 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.