why does does green gear break down to give u mats that are used to upgrade equipment to white?

[low bough]

Doesn’t green gear give green crystals? Blue gear blue crystals?

[pure marten]

Correct, but you need blue crystal to make green gear, then in breaking down green it becomes greens, so breaking down blues does nothing but make you able to make greens, idk just seems like a really messed up economy to mr

[pure marten]

I guess maybe it should be worded, why am I using blue mats to make green gear, makes no sense, it's a balancing measure to use people's inventories and seems counter intuitive

[split ice]

The blue crystal is used to upgrade green gear into blues not to craft green gear