I used a Scroll of Transmutation on a +10 Alchemist’s Toolkit and it returned me a +0 Dried Rose. Is this intentional? I would have expected a +10 Dried Rose. (EDIT - This concerns Shattered v2.5.4)
Maybe it’s because of the petals that are required to upgrade the rose and it somehow “breaks” the transmutation.
I don’t think it works the same for Artifacts at all. If it did, getting a +10 Greaves of Nature via Transmuting a Master Thief’s Armband or something would be way better than getting it by feeding seeds to the Sandals of Nature.
Edit: I’m wrong. I wonder if it’s only the Alchemist’s Toolkit or Dried Rose that screw it up.
It should return an artifact of the same level
I’ve always previously used the strategy of transmuting ‘easy’ +10 artifacts (like Horn of Plenty) to gamble for another, better +10, such as Chalice of Blood. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a +10 transmuted artifact give a +0 artifact in return (EDIT - until today).
I’ve already got a +10 chalice this way. But this was a long time ago.