Initiate's Claw Hammer

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Initiate's Claw Hammer is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Crab Oil ×1, Iron Ingot ×1 and Yew Lumber ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 9 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 529 of the 1,932 Blacksmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Shard, 2 Earth Shard, 2 Water Shard and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses three disciplines — Blacksmith to Lv 24, Alchemist to Lv 26 and Carpenter to Lv 21 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

One intermediate outranks the result: Crab Oil is a Lv 26 Alchemist recipe feeding a Lv 24 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

2 of the 3 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.