ok first, you CAN get sunstone WITHOUT crafting it there is this one place i got it from battling. same thing with sandstone.
second, if you go into the portico you can get pearls, chests, and kelp. there is usually 2 kelp 2 pearls and a chest.
third, a lot of people been asking where the polymorph recipes are. they are in the floating land a watermole near one of the docks and get you them and the treant costs 1500 gold. :D
sheesh..... unless you have a lot of pearls you haven't used, you can buy the blocks (kinda cheap) at the bazaar, or farm dragonspyre and krokotopia (places i seem to find the blocks most). or if you want to get the pearls faster, you can visit Celestia pearl drop sites and skip the blocks. You can find 1-3 black lotus' at most of the ends (culvesacs i would describe them as) in most of MooShu.
P.S. where can you find a transmutate golden pearl recipe? I couldn't seem to find it and I looked all over Celestia! :x :? :(
Finally made my way to the floating island tonight , and picked up the grandmaster crafter quest , and also bought a few of the new transmute recipes . Did the math , and correct me if I am wrong , but I am going to need 1,000 stone blocks and 1,165 black lotus ?
10 black lotus = 1 pearl . 15 pearls = 1 gold pearl.
Please tell me these new pearls can be harvested somewhere , or even dropped. The people I have talked to so far , have yet to see a pearl on live or the test realm. Some of these people made it all the way to level 60 on test realm too.
Sandstone is listed as a harvested reagent , but so far , I only received one from completing a quest. Have not seen it on the ground anywhere. Anyone else seeing sandstone on the ground?
Only new harvested reagent I have found so far , is shell. and the rare aquamarine.
Thanks
That impossible! I taught that one wizard can only have 999 reagents of each.......
:? 
hope this helps! :D