How do you start decomposition?

[Miriamele]

I have decomp on one of my alts.

I used my main to go in and farm for mushrooms in MT. There's a spot at the bottom-left corner of that hill with the X (if you look on the map) that has several without fail. This is best done when you don't aggro any of the monsters. Once you get a bunch, do decomp and comp and keep on going until you have all t1 (and maybe SBL decomp) unlocked. Then it's just a matter of decomping whatever drops you get as drops.

Someone I know also had at least 10-20 stacks of t2 mats in his storage for some reason so I offered to decomp them for him so he could make scrolls and stones... easily got 1500 from just doing decomp for him.

[a.L]

If you're high level enough, the woods that spawn near the GC gate in VT are a great source of T2 sap.

[Ralath]

Mining is very time consuming. But you can easily comp/decomp ores until you run out.

I personally used Sap because you get it in quantities more than 1. But you can't comp/decomp it until later.

I think I built up my Comp up to Sap and then I just did Sap nonstop. And now I do Broken Bones since those things tend to be useless.

[lamchopz]

Common Mushrooms <-> Spoiled Mushrooms was what Hessah suggested when I had my comp/decomp at 100 each. It worked great for me. I'll try Saps, as well.

[Silent Wizard]

Silent Wizard is a comp/decomper. He got his start in the Echo Cave doing massive amounts of mining and processing. Your main problem will be acquiring the considerable number of t1 alc stones you need before you can become a usefull decomper around 6500 points.

gtg more to follow

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you will need about 13000 stones purchased with fame or by vending. because I had little capital I made and worked 2 alts to lev 28 and used their mats and fame to buy stones. Buying mats from the npc is expensive.

I was then lucky to fall in with a group that was interested in developing production skills and they would bring me mats and stones for decomp which really helped.

Decomp is a powerful and usefull skill and now supports Doylen in her scroll and stone making and Blue Violet in her potion making. The Wiz now has almost 400k decomp points. That may give you an idea how useful decomp has been. He also helps his guildies.

Comp is not so useful but I encourage you to develop your decomp.

1 chewy meat decomps to 55 tough meat and 1 magic xstal hq decomps to 42 lq for example. In this way I was able to make butt loads of t1 pots to get Blues potion and Doylens scroll points up quickly.