TransmutingFollow

Not finding any data on the main forum that is accurate or at least not clear so does anyone know where to go in kelethin to start transmuting stuff. I hit lvl 10 in crafting with my new char but cant find out how to start transmuting.

Unless you have 100+ plats to spend on transmuting or that you farm like crazy I'd forget about it.
Our transmuter in guild was the first one to 350 transmuting skill on the server and she spent around 100 plats to get there. That was before economy due to transmuting gets completely crazy. Level 5 adept 1's selling for 10 gold each FTW ! A level 10 character should never be able to make 2 plats in an hour of play.

Now for vets that have been playing for a while and we get the economy, things are pretty simple. But for someone that is JUST starting now ? How do you get upgrades ? Of course you can always sell the drops you get at insane price too...but then what about that ridiculous 1 silver quest reward ? Transmuting as it is is gonna make newcomers to the game leave the questing part aside, maybe not totally, but why the hell would someone spend an hour to find those rats for a 1 silver reward and a little chunk of xp when he could get much more xp killing those gnolls that drop adepts that sell for gold ?

So the first few on every sever to race to max transmuting skills got all the stuff on the broker, and then prices started to get out of range. I'd say for the most part, if you are not in the upper tiers for transmuting as it is, you've just missed the boat unless you're insanely rich. I'd forget about it unless you want to be patient and wait for things to come back to normal a little bit.

There are a couple of things to consider here. The economy on the broker is seeing huge inflation over a very short time, but all the money changing hands is going from player to player - a redsitribution of the wealth you might say, so this isn't the same as typical mudflation because no new money is entering the economy. From what I hear the people who bought their way to the top aren't seeing a return on their investment - augments haven't really caught on yet.

Newbie players up to level 30 and maybe even 40 don't need adept spells and treasured gear to progress in the game. Common Handcrafted gear and player made App 4 spells are still available and cheap. Since the latest combat changes there's less difference between app 4 and adept 1 than there ever was. Surprisingly, (since you can transmute Mastercrafted) rare raws have not seen the same kind of price increase as Adept 1 spells and Treasured/Legendary/Fabled gear. You can easily use your obscene profits from those things you get to completely outfit yourself in rare crafted gear and Adept 3 spells. Longer term players, remember how many of those things you vendored because you couldn't use them and they were selling for less than NPC buyback on the broker?

It wasn't the best idea to add these things 2 years into the game and cause the economic havoc they did, but there is a bright side.

That said, there are two things related to these new tradeskills that have me pretty upset. First, they saw fit to let anyone who takes up transmuting make weapon adornments, and they didn't saddle any other crafting profession with the same competition. As if weaponsmiths had it so good we needed the extra hit... Secondly they opened up Transmuting and Tinkering to the higher of adventure level or tradeskill level instead of tradeskill level only. They finally added something just for crafters, where someone could put in effort to better their character and be sought out purely as a high level crafter, then yanked it away (with a stealth patch and no explanation) thus keeping crafting a sideline time sink for adventurers as it has become since launch. I haven't played in over a week and I'm not sure I will any more.