Transmuting Question

[Hanoverian]

<p>I went to BBM Docks, spoke to the Master Transmuter and became a Transmuter. I spoke to the trainer and purchased and scribed book 1.  I have been trasmuting various objects and have collected 3 ulterian powders and about 20 lapis lazuli fragments.  OK so far.  I go to a workbench, with coal in my inventory.  I click the workbench and there are no "red" ingredients.  I have everything I need.  Next, I went into my tradeskills buttons and put all of the Geocraft buttons onto my hotbar. (3 of each type buff).  I start to work a flickering temper or any other recipe and none of the Geocraft buttons "light up."  I paged through my K screen looking to see if there is another set of buttons lit up, but nothing is lit up.  Where are my transmuting buffs?  I thought that's what the 9 new Geocraft buttons were for.</p><p>  </p>

[SugarGirl]

You have to buy the skills for transmuting in BBM as well.

[VolgaDark]

<p>Geocraft buttons are "for nothing", they are but a sad reminder of era gone by. </p><p>As previously stated, you have to purchase reaction arts for transmuting. Also, don't worry about "making" anything till your skill is 100. Save all the powders, fragments and infusions till then. </p>

[Calthine]

Actually Geocraft is still used in some obscure HQ or something.  It's autoleveling.But eveyrone is correct, scoot back to BB and buy your Transmuting Arts.  There are four, total.

[Mighty Melvor]

I would suggest saving some money and only buying the +durability one.  The others are a waste of cash IMO.

[Music4lone]

My advance apologies for bringing up an old thread, but I figured this was better than starting a new one, and it contains referenced material. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />In the signature above me, it says Woodworker 70, Transmuting 350.  This (transmuting) is a tradeskill that's separate from the others? (jeweler, provisioner, etc.) And, why does it go to 350 instead of the level 70 like the others? How do you get transmuting? Is it a freebie, given tradeskill (like say first aid, cooking and fishing in WoW) that everyone should pick up just for the heck of it? I'm so confused. <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Any shed light will be greatly appreciated.

[Calthine]

Transmuting and Tinkering are the two secondary tradeskills.  They are separate from and different that the primary nine tradeskills.  For example (as you noticed), they are skilled up instead of leveled.Try <a href="http://eq2.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=972" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Transmuting FAQ</a>

[cooper9280]

<p>And, if you intend to pursue either Transmuting or Tinkering, you had better be prepared for a very large time sink or money sink depending on how you choose to level (ie farming the items yourself or buying them off the Broker).</p>

[Loranthala]

Tinkering wasn't as bad as Transmuting...  still trying to level my transmuter.  Tinkering just takes lots of raws.

[Music4lone]

Thanks for the responses.It also seems like transmuting is definitely an alt skill, funded by your main's earnings. And, it seems logical that if you're going to choose to transmute, it's best to do from day one, and just melt everything you find.

[Loranthala]

<cite>Music4lone wrote:</cite><blockquote>Thanks for the responses.It also seems like transmuting is definitely an alt skill, funded by your main's earnings. And, it seems logical that if you're going to choose to transmute, it's best to do from day one, and just melt everything you find. </blockquote>Tinkering by far will enhance your main more than being a transmuter.  Tinkering doesn't get you as much money as transmuting does by selling your products.  If the character that you want to be a transmuter is already to high you can always mentor a lower level character and mass kill in lower zones to get you items to transmute if you don't have the funds to buy from the broker.

[Whysprr_Wyrd]

<cite>Mighty Melvor wrote:</cite><blockquote>I would suggest saving some money and only buying the +durability one.  The others are a waste of cash IMO.</blockquote><p>I absolutely disagree.  I'm as patient as a hyperthyroid wildcat, admittedly, but I use progress buffs all the time transmuting, both in skilling up and in making finals.  For skilling up with T2-3 stuff at higher levels there's nothing like buffing progress to get to first-tier and then you're done.  For later stuff i use my usual tradeskilling algorithm with some modifications -- progress all the time except when durability drops below half (I also run the non-power-using dur buff) -- and it's waay faster than without.  </p><p>Transmuting is enough of a time-and-money sink that you should speed up whatever you can.  </p><p>Whysprr</p>