Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-50.90.129.119-20130605160512/@comment-4199297-20130709153338

AFAIK level of the armors used to fuse only affects the level of the resulting armor, not the type of resulting armor. (and I don't think there's much difference in cost if you level before or after the fusion; just that if you fuse level 1s and the result is junk, you wouldn't have wasted anything on the leveling...)