World Forging Weapons

so basically hear me out

something that would be cool is that there would be 3 parts to a weapon. You can mix and match these to make the most ideal playstyle for you.

The 3 parts in general would be like a blade, a handle, and a catalyst.
Yeah I know they wouldn't be universal for all classes, so some of them might be class exclusive.
However, I know that certain ones can be mutual for a select couple of classes.
Like you can get dagger blades and slap em with a spear grip and effectively make a spear.

You would be able to find broken weapon parts in the wild, and you could use upcoming mining/woodcutting/whatever resources to fix them, and forge them together to make a custom weapon.

oh yeah they're untradable when they're finished, allowing naming of the weapon.
But the individual parts, broken or fixed, can be traded.

the parts for a spear: blade/long grip.
the parts of a dagger: blade/hilt or handle
the parts of a bow: bendy thing (idk what it is called help)/string
the parts of a wand: frame (harhar)/handle

the 3rd part will be mutually exclusive across all classes.
They can be either a catalyst or a link.
The catalyst improving spell damage, the link improving melee damage.

It's crafting essentially and offers variety, but not too much variety.

Spoiler: P.S

I know this is kind of pulled from Warframe, but it's a nice mechanic in there that could very well be implemented here.

 

Spoilers for 1.18 :o jk sounds good. But this might already low happening with the "crafting" system in 1.18. Maybe.

 

well i think the 1.18 crafting things are will allow you to customize existing items with new ids and such, so wouldnt that be pretty much the same as this except u got an item that already has other stats to build off of? apart from naming of weapons seems mostly like a downgrade from that to me haha

 

How would you join the items though?