Earth Brand

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Earth Brand is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Eye of Earth ×1 and Toad Leather ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 504 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 4 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Wind Shard, 3 Fire Shard and 2 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 34 and Leatherworker to Lv 26 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

2 of the 4 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, Toad Leather has the widest use: 44 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.