MagicManICT wrote:Where you get different stats are different craft recipes. Swords and armor are pretty much the only things.
Not the same thing. OP is asking if there's a difference of output when materials are different in a
single recipe. With swords and armor you get single recipe for each of the materials. You can't make "a sword", you can make 3 different swords with 3 different recipes, each of them requiring a strictly defined material.
The only thing where you can use "bar of any metal", or "bar of a hard metal" and get different output depending on metals used, is building/construction coloring.