^^and someone hit the nail on the head!
Then with the immortals recipes, requiring black knights mail, and shit like that, you would spend 4-5 minutes simply combinning items to make immortals boots... and in the situation of making a 130,000G item, if you spend 12k to save 3 minutes of time, you really are making a profit. it would be stupid early game not to make everything in peices, but end game, it saves a lot of time for our lazier players...
also the noob thing... thats also why i put those recipes all over the map!