This sucks from a crafters stand point. Especially when I make an item for a guildy or friend. Some higher tiers require the previous tier item in order to upgrade the weapon. Because of this issue, now I have to gather the lower level mats to make the base item and then get the mats to make the new weapon, and the item that your guildy or friend already has is pretty much crap cus npcs give nothing for items and materias at those level is worthless.