Water Brand

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Water Brand is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Electrum Ingot ×1 and Eye of Water ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 643 of the 2,216 Goldsmith ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 12 Wind Shard and 5 Fire Shard.

Every step is Goldsmith work, from a Lv 22 intermediate up to the Lv 43 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

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.

Of the intermediates, Electrum Ingot has the widest use: 234 recipes call for it, spanning seven of the eight crafting classes.