375/400 Transmuting

[Greyfawn]

Is there any current benefit for taking a transmuter past 375?  Unless I'm missing something, I can transmute through level 80 items and create all the transmuter items in the recipe books.  Is it worth grinding the last 25?

[Zehl_Ice-Fire]

You may or may not have a better chance of getting powders and manas.

[Besual]

<cite>Zehl_Ice-Fire wrote:</cite><blockquote>You may or may not have a better chance of getting powders and manas. </blockquote>The chance of getting powder / infusion / mana has absolutly nothing to do with your skill. Transmuting a level 1 master with a skill of 1 or with a skill of 400 will have the same chance of getting a mana vial.SoD will not increase the level cap = no need to raise your skill higher then 375 till an expansion with a new level cap is released (my guess November 2009).

[Thicket Tundrabog]

There's no benefit beyond 375 except to prepare for the next level increase.

[ccarro]

<p>Being at 400 will allow you to transmute stuff that is level 85, so to prepare for the next level cap increase it is benificial to max out your transmuting prior to. We still have a long time before we see a level cap increase so I wouldn't worry about it.</p>

[SilkenKidden]

<cite>Besual wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Zehl_Ice-Fire wrote:</cite><blockquote>You may or may not have a better chance of getting powders and manas. </blockquote>The chance of getting powder / infusion / mana has absolutly nothing to do with your skill. Transmuting a level 1 master with a skill of 1 or with a skill of 400 will have the same chance of getting a mana vial.SoD will not increase the level cap = no need to raise your skill higher then 375 till an expansion with a new level cap is released (my guess November 2009).</blockquote>I am at 380 or so and don't plan on trying to level my transmuter an further.  I was sure I had her at the max when the last time around and when the new max came in she had dropped down a level's worth of points.  I forget what the numbers were, but it was as if I had been at 400 and then dropped back to 395, except the equivalent for the last cap raise.

[Bloodfa]

If you're making/selling adornments, you'll cap out before the next expansion anyway.  For some reason, the T8 recipes dinged pretty fast for me (about every other?), but then maybe I just started getting lucky?