How does combining crafting upgrade materials to higher quality ones sound?

LegendaryNinja

It is my general observation that there is a great gap between players who are okay with buying crafting upgrade materials and those who take advantage of the market demand and set these prices quite high. My recommendation to ESO is that we could combine (at a substantial material cost) different upgrade materials for all crafting professions into greater ones and convert lower level crafting items into higher level ones by combining them. Allowing crafters to clear their inventory of not so useful materials and players ability to have more options in finding critical materials without allowing the market to massively monopolize this. Keep in mind that players that maximize their crafting skills will be able to maximize this effect. In addition, this would cause the individual prices to drop, but there would be more sell volume, since dedicated crafters will still have an advantage using this system. I find this solution favorable for everyone.

Proposal (Baseline):
Level 1- CP 150 Items:
10 to 1 ratio for materials (Like Iron and Maple) (5 to 1 ratio for a level 50 crafting line)

Non-Jewelry or Enchanting Upgrade Materials:

Green to Blue (8 Green) (4 Green for Max Crafting Line)
Blue to Purple (16 Blue) (8 Blue for Max Crafting Line)
Purple to Gold (32 Purple) (16 for Max Crafting Line)

Jewelry and Enchanting Upgrade Materials:

Green to Blue (3 Green) (2 Green for Max Crafting Line)
Blue to Purple (6 Blue) (3 Blue for Max Crafting Line)
Purple to Gold (12 Purple) (6 Purple for Max Crafting Line)

preevious

I enjoy the current system, I love to farm, is so fun!

farmers are people too.
Let's save their revenue !

Sarannah

I enjoy the current system, I love to farm, is so fun!

This would totally destroy the crafting balance, and would make hirelings golden gooses. If ZOS were to make combining upgrade materials possible, the lower upgrade materials would have to become extremely rare drops as well. This should not happen!

El_Borracho

I agree with this proposal, it would make things more balanced.

Love this, only because I have tons of mats and could easily upgrade so much gear.

There's also a way to stop this from devaluing the market. Whatever you improve/combine is bound.

bmnoble

Other

I suspect that would cause the lower level upgrade mats to rise in price quite a bit.

That or the rich would buy out the entire stocks on guild traders to then convert them and sell the gold mats, in the same way people buy raw mats.