I was wondering if there was an efficient way to level up transmuting after 100. Do you ever get the dust back if you make a pristine? (i've never made a pristine, only tried a couple of times). I ask because i'm pretty much out of cash and don't have a level 70 to farm for hours and hours right now.
Anyhow, dusts (even tier 1) cost 10g or more on our server, and the adornments pretty much all sell for like 3-4 silver. if you get a skill point 1 in 4 times, thats pretty much a 40g per skill point flush, every time. The adornments are so garbage price wise I'd vendor them. IMO anything worth less then 1g or so is a waste of a vendor slot on the broker, so all the adornments i've seen so far fall into that catagory.
Maybe i'm missing something obvious, or I should be melting down different items or some such? Right now it looks like a flat out 40g per point flush, and knowing what I do about crafting from other games, you'd NEVER recover that kind of investment, even at the top end. Is this another "pay to raise, so that you can then pay people to take your finished products in the end" type of craft?