Composite

Introduction
Weapons and Armors in Season 3 are crafted through the Composite system. Each gear is created by combining composite materials: 1 main component and a various number of secondary components. Components come in different qualities and randomly generated stats on them. The final product has the combined stats of components used and its components can be swapped out at a cost.

Write up is mostly taken from Vindictus EU: (http://en.vindictus.nexoneu.com/NXEU.aspx?BoardIDX=3361&PART=/News/Notice&nxid=15)

Crafting Location
Visit Dianann in Magician Shop in Rocheste. She gives you a quest so it will show up in the map.

Qualities
Season 3 composite materials come in 3 color-coded qualities:

Blue

 * Provides lowest stats
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Enhancement limit: +5
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Enchantment rank limit: A
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Quality limit: **

Purple
, as seen above
 * Provides decent stats
 * Purple quality items are the only ones to be further divided into 3 more sub-categories/grades
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Enhancement limit: +6 / +7 to +8 / +9 to +10
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Enchantment rank limit: A / 9 / 8
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Quality limit: ** / *** / ****

Orange

 * Provides the highest stats
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Enhancement limit: +15
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Enchantment rank limit: 7
 * Weapon and Armor's maximum Quality limit: *****

Sealed Power (aka Regina's Feather)
Each type of gear has a unique main component that is always explicitly labeled in its name.

Weapon
Ex: Regina's Sealed Power: Weapon (aka Regina's Feather: Weapon)
 * Contains the following stats:
 * ATT / M.ATT
 * Attack Speed
 * Orange quality contains a special ability

Chest and Leg
Ex: Regina's Sealed Power: Chest (aka Regina's Feather: Chest Armor)
 * Contains the following stats:
 * DEF
 * Critical Resistance
 * Orange quality contains a special ability

Head, Hand, and Feet

 * Contains the following stats:
 * DEF
 * Critical Resistance

Legendary Shards
Shards are secondary components that are sometimes shared by different gear slots.

Keen Legendary Stone Fragment

 * Required for Weapons
 * Contains the following stats:
 * Balance
 * Critical

Stable Legendary Stone Fragment

 * Required for Weapons
 * Contains the following stats:
 * Balance
 * STR
 * AGI
 * INT
 * WILL

Lightweight Legendary Stone Fragment

 * Required for Weapons
 * Contains the following stats:
 * Critical
 * Attack Speed

Perfect Legendary Stone Fragment

 * Required for Weapons
 * Contains the following stats:
 * ATT
 * M.ATT
 * STR
 * AGI
 * INT
 * WILL

Solid Legendary Stone Fragment

 * Required for Head, Chest, Legs, Hands and Feet armor
 * Contains the following stats:
 * STR
 * AGI
 * INT
 * WILL
 * Critical Resistance

Smooth Legendary Stone Fragment

 * Required for Chest and Legs armor
 * Contains the following stats:
 * DEF
 * Critical Resistance

Ability List
(pending transcription. link acquired from Vindictus EU forum) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/8r752cpq3okfj6u/S3E1GearAbilities.jpg

Combining and Replacing
Combining components is fairly straight forward. You select the gear you want to create, select the appropriate materials of your choice, then pay Dianann 350,000 gold to create the component. Very simple and cheap.

Replacing a component is more costly than the initial creation. You will need to pay gold and provide a bunch of extra materials that drop in season 3 such as Godly Cloth or Godly Iron Ore.

Replacing Sealed Power (main component)

 * Higher grade Sealed Power combination materials cannot be replaced with lower grade materials
 * This is straight forward when switching colors. Orange > Purple > Blue.
 * Remember purple has multiple sub-grades, and you cannot replace a higher grade purple with a lower grade purple (see Quality section)
 * Item's Enhancement level (+1 and higher) will be reset when replacing Blue or Purple Sealed Power combination material with an Orange one
 * Low grade replacements (blue to purple, or purple to purple) do not reset enhancement
 * Item's Quality stars (*) and Enchants are never reset when replacing combination materials of any kind

Replacing Shards (secondary component)
No additional limitations

Dismantling
Dismantling materials turns them into Legendary Stone Fragment Remnants, which can be exchanged for Legendary Stone Fragment Pouches in the Seal Shop (Royal Army Recruits at the docks) at a cost of one pouch per 5 remnants. The pouches themselves contain random, secondary combination materials of all three color grades.