Thanks Meirril. You answered my question by saying there is no minimal level, because you said there is a minimal chance of 20% for a skill up. While you were responding, I was making a few calculations (which are now irrelevant). My character was 265, muting a maximum of level 58 items. I tried a few items around 42-43, and got a skillup to 266. So I tried a couple around level 36, and got a skillup to 267. So again, I tried some lower items, and from my small sample size, I got no skillup from 2 level 29 items, probably because I failed at the 20% chance you mentioned. I did get a skillup to 268 muting a level 30 item. It's probably just a coincidence that the level 29 items were exactly half of my current skill level 58 items, but I thought I should mention it.
If you really wanted to you could skill up from 1 to max in a newbie zone. I just think it would be incredibly slow and boring to do it.
Not aware of that quest only the one for the leaper mount. Happen to know the quest name? Was hoping the equipment thread had it but didn't' see it there, only faction horses from Mara.
He is referring to the tradeskill questline in ButcherBlock that starts at about level 20, you get a pack horse mount about half-way through. Quest starts with the NPC on the docks, between the two piers.
http://eq2.zam.com/wiki/Tradeskill_Quests_(EQ2) The Butcherblock series is here: http://eq2.zam.com/wiki/Butcherblock_Tradeskill_Quests_(EQ2_Quest_Series)
If you have the plat to do it, just buy Adept books off the broker en masse and blow them all up. Lower levels may require a mix of books and some gear too. I maxed it recently with about 100p investment. (If you're L95 you can farm TOV shinies for several hundred plat an hour, if you need money.)
As for harvesting we should be able to break any item with a zero skill. For sure it will fail, but it will grant you a skill increase chance. Anyway i don't really care since i can transmute anything that is inherited.
How do you even start to transmute? It says my skill level is 5, and need to be skill of 25, but I can't find any items to breakdown under level 10. What gives?
Items under lvl 10 are super hard to come by. When I level a new transmuter, I have my sage make lvl 1 expert spells and I transmute them until I can find other items to use. I think any mastercrafted item that uses a rare in its makeup can be transmuted. You can also Chrono down to lvl 5 and hit up a newbie area =)
I have transmuted the last 5 items successfully and received fragments or powder, but my level has stayed stuck at 23. Any idea why I am not gaining additional levels?
Shall do. I'll level up another 2 in TS just as a precautionary measure before doing any further transmuting - maybe it will break my losing streak!
