Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-99.45.25.146-20131028054338/@comment-195.179.63.253-20131028092221

If you combine basic armors (bronze star), you'll usually get the most simple combination result, i.e. the "rare" armors (http://knights-and-dragons.wikia.com/wiki/Rare_Armor). If no such armor is possible with the combined elements, you'll get a (slightly) better one.

Combining anything higher is like playing lottery. In most cases you'll get an armor which isn't better than the original ones (except for "uncommon" armors, where the results are slightly better but about the same as for the "common" ones...). Only in some rare cases and with lots of luck you can get something really good like Guardian's Battlegear. Usually, it's better to use the armors to enhance others or enhance the better ones to improve chances to kill the epic bosses more often. When you're further in the game, it may s**k to waste an epic boss armor ("legendary") leveled to 35 to be able to craft the + armor. But unless you're feeling lucky, you've got enough armors about anyway, or there's a popular exception (some epic armors were quite possible for a very short time), it's still better to enhance an armor (or two) with 2 legendaries than a single (usually worse) one.