Ok, let me rephrase:
You have a bunch of mats. Some of these are super-useful, and you lock them. They're not getting used now.
The rest is a mess. You don't really want to sell everything, but you're curious if out of the mats you have, you could make a nice pair of amps or something. So, you ask KC, who dutifully looks through the combinations of materials and tells you which of them could make nice items.
Then you craft said items, and dump the rest on a merchant.
You have a bunch of mats. Some of these are super-useful, and you lock them. They're not getting used now.
The rest is a mess. You don't really want to sell everything, but you're curious if out of the mats you have, you could make a nice pair of amps or something. So, you ask KC, who dutifully looks through the combinations of materials and tells you which of them could make nice items.
Then you craft said items, and dump the rest on a merchant.
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