As someone who crafted all of the T2 weapons and salvaged them along the way, I'm glad you realize that this is a problem, but it really shouldn't have been one in the first place. No other weapon collection has worked in the way you have implemented these new weapons; needing the previous one to craft the new. It's always been that crafting one unlocked the ability to craft the next one. That's how it was for the Istan weapons, the THK ones, and the first iteration of the Boreal weapons. The fact that these new weapons require the old ones, without there being any warning as to that being the case, tells me that there was either a lack of communication between the teams that worked on episodes 1 and 2 and this was done accidentally, or this was just done intentionally, and neither of those options are good. I do genuinely hope there is a fix for this soon, because taking away people's hard work is how you loose the goodwill of your playerbase and push potential customers away.