Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen them in gem store, 5 for 200. I also heard from people they got them without buying them with gems by completing area exploration, black lion chests and daily quests. -can someone confirm this? Because I have completed about 70% of the map, opened many chests and every day I complete a daily quest yet I never got one.

I can confirm that black lion chests grant fine transmutation stones for level 80 gear, whilst content completion grants basic transmutation stones for anything under level 80.

I just got 4 basic from completing Queensdale with my 3rd character. If what you want is fine the only free way I know of to get them is black lion chests.

Seconded – Fine Transmutation stones ‘drop’ from Black Lion Chests every once in a while.

I had a total of 20 of them (used 8 so far) and all got them for map exploration and doing daily’s

the most I got for map completion for maps up till level 35

You get fine ones from completing level 80 zones, from the end of your PS, and from the Black Lion chests. The latter is RNG based, though. I used yesterday’s sale to get 25 keys, managing to open 31 chests with them thanks to more keys dropping from the chests, and collected 25 fine stones from the chests. A guildie opened over 60 chests and got no stones.

edit: Oh, I think you have to be level 80 to get fine stones from the chests. I always make sure to open chests on my 80.