Lightning Brand

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Lightning Brand is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Boar Leather ×1 and Eye of Lightning ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 16 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 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Wind Shard, 5 Fire Shard and 4 Earth Shard.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Goldsmith to Lv 42 and Leatherworker to Lv 33 — 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, Boar Leather has the widest use: 117 recipes call for it, spanning six of the eight crafting classes.