If you are serious though, I prefer the elves because the intelligence is nice for mastering spells and seem to land easier, plus the mana is nice.
Secondly, on my elven transmuter as of late, I was the tank of the party most times and usually MQ, adrenal burst, corp hardening and calcify did
good for taking lowercase damage. Petrify flesh with arcane absorption was really nice for taking hardly any damage.
I'd start out on most things with slowing, soften and decalcify. Melee worked nicely and the dex helped with defenses when using a staff. This was
probably the best setup for killing mobs, even tough ones. Once you got disruptions out, you'd get bleed with the greater affect from the spells and
to add, just pop some gills on them if applicable. This would be my setup for PvE.
PvP I'd usually go with ABS and depending on the enemy would either stack damage reduction or something like accel and malleability. Sometimes
if I went the dam reduc way, I'd leave out B cause I didn't want people to flee too quickly.