-Materia Fuse/Defuse-

The concept came from my friend Dao Sama about 1-2 months ago & this write up is my attempt at making it work :P

Combining and breaking down tiers of materia ^^. I pretty much npc/toss all tier 1, 2 & NQ3 materia, so this would be a great way to put them to use & give more incentive for lower lvl players to Meld & sell materia.

Fuse (Can only Fuse together matching Materia. Each Fuse has a chance to random HQ)
Tier 1 + Tier 1 = Tier 2
Tier 1 + Tier 2 = Tier 3
Tier 1 + Tier 3 = Tier 4
Tier 2 + Tier 2 = Tier 4

Defuse (All Defused Materia will result in matching NQ lower tier)
Tier 4 = Tier 3
Tier 3 = Tier 2
Tier 2 = Tier 1

Colors of Materia & Cluster/Crystal/Shard usage in recipes

Fusing will take X number of Crystals &/or Shards
Defusing will take X number of Clusters

STR = Fire, Dex = WIND , VIT = Earth, MND = Water, INT = LIGHTNING, PIE = ICE

White = Matching Attribute for Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Black = Matching Element for Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Purple = Requires Lightning Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Blue = Requires Water Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Green = Requires Wind Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Red = Requires Fire Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Light Blue = Requires Ice Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Yellow = Requires Earth Cluster/Crystal/Shard
Orange = Requires 0/No/None Cluster/Crystal/Shard

Example - Tier 1 STR materia + Tier 3 STR materia + 6 Fire Crystals = Tier 4 STR Materia
- Tier 4 Manaflight Materia + 1 Water Cluster = Tier 3 Manaflight Materia

Using Clusters to Defuse is a great way to avoid too much abuse. Orange materia has less effect than all the others, so fusing & defusing them without any Cluster/Crystal/Shards is ok. These are all recipes, so they have a chance to break. You could also swap Clusters used with Fusing & Crystals/Shards used for Defusing.
This is a highly interesting proposition that could either generate real demand for the lower tier materia while increasing their price or become easily abused to create higher tier materias from lower lvl gear. Either way would stimulate general economic activity.