Unable to smash separate faction items or player ignorance?

Originally posted by Roguetamer

We NEED this put somewhere in game. Both that you can not use 2 separate faction items AND that the result will take on the exalts faction requirement. There are no warnings and players can spend a lot of resources crafting an item they can not use. Imagine finding a 4 LP item, getting hyped, crafting it with a drop you've been saving from your main/alt and BAM...you can't use it and it's now not tradable. Swapping factions to use a single piece of gear is not feasible in most situations.

Solutions-

1. Make Factions Account-wide. Simple and clean. No more issues.
2. When combining, the items retain the faction requirement of the UNIQUE. (None, MG, CoF)
3. A REASONABLE fee from a neutral vendor to remove the faction requirement of an item, but forcing the item to be account bound. (Cannot be traded tag)

Originally posted by Roguetamer

1. "Cannot be traded" is a tag placed on some items. Does this not "Account bound" an item without adding a faction requirement? I have several items like this stored in my cache and they can not be sold at the MG or traded via Gifting.