I wasn't aware that refined materials weren't going to work. Imagine my dismay when I refined all of my darkstones (37 of them), got back 26 purified darkstones, and then the resulting jewelry wasn't any different from unrefined darkstone jewelry. I think I did discover why though. The raw darkstone is level 110. The purified darkstone is returned as level 100. I'm hoping that'll get fixed and existing products updated (though I'm not holding my breath).