Brass Cudgel

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Brass Cudgel is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Brass Ingot ×1 and Bronze Ingot ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 4 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 710 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Shard and 2 Wind Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 14 and Blacksmith to Lv 1 — 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, Brass Ingot has the widest use: 94 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.