A new idea in relation to the upgrade station for weapons and armor is a grindstone that instead of upgrading a weapon it could revert the weapon back to its base stats but refund the materials you have used up to the level you had it at. It would help with the grind a little so you don't have to make 5 different weapons each with a certain flavor.

The ability to recycle would be really nice in this game. As we upgrade to newer weapons, I never need to go back to the old gear. I'd like to put things like this into a grinder machine to churn out raw resources.