Why smashing equipment should be implemented in AL
Smashing equipment is destroying a piece of gear to get some items (for example, dust or essences). This can solve some gear problems which are quite actual at this moment:
1) This should solve a problem of "trash legendaries" because they all will be just smashed. It will also raise their cost at CS a bit.
2) This would solve a problem "I wanted to loot good item X, but looted trash item Y Z times". Just smash all trash, get Z pieces of dust and be happy (maybe, you will be able to craft X).
3) It would make rares and epics useful, for example, let them be smashed for "rare item dust" and "epic item dust" which would be used for crafting legendaries.
4) Assuming all 3 points, there weren't be any "trash items", they all will be used in smashing. It also will give a new life to CS, cuz all items will become useful.
I'm open for discussion.
P.S. Currently, it's very easy to implement. It can be explained like an opposite to "we need 10 essences to craft a gem", which is "we need 1 gem to craft 10 essences", with replacing "craft" to "smash" in the second expression.