Decorated Copper Scepter

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Decorated Copper Scepter is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Brass Ingot ×1, Copper Scepter ×1, Ragstone Whetstone ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 7 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 764 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Wind Shard and 2 Fire Shard.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 20 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

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.