Full Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device on Test

[splunge]

Its in the UI on Test Server.

(8 itmes)
Diamond
Small Lantern
Reflective Shard
Gnomish Bolts
Steel Wire
Haze Panther Eye
Infused Dark Matter
Infused Dark Matter

Trivial 302 (according to the UI)

So, wow, ok theres finally a real use for this junk. =)

Ill go whack some panthers and see about making one of these to see if its 10 charges or what.

[Genella]

No upgrade method seen yet?
More panther camping doesn't sound overly fun

[Mediik7th]

Hope it doesn't require dark matter to recharge.. that would suck

[splunge]

Found a raw infused dark matter on a vendor just now and had 2 more on a mule...
Hunted Haze panthers for an hour, got 5 eyes..

Full Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device
Slot: Secondary
Charges:10
Effect: Invisibility Cloak (Must Equip. Casting time 5.0)
This item can be used in Tradeskills
WT: 0.8 Size:SMALL
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

[Mediik7th]

How do ya recharge?

[splunge]

Combined a Full Capacity with a class 5 battery and got a Half Capacity back...

Combine a Half Capacity with 2x Infused Dark Matter = Full Capacity.

Great... have to be Kod'Taz flagged (or vendor dive, or spend whats soon to be an astronomically skyrocketing price in the bazaar) to make/recharge these bastards... Nice.

Tradeskillers and friends of tinkerers: Buy up *all* the cheap infused matter in the bazaar NOW before the gougers go crazy.

[Ghismonda]

I am underwhelmed. :-(

[Mediik7th]

Why do they even bother.. more hastle than the thing is worth. Raw infused Dark matter is rare as it is.

So in reality it's not a new recipe. Just a new way to recharge. Guess I'll have to keep carrying around my Observer BP for invis hehe.


Mediik

[splunge]

I am underwhelmed. :-(

You can be underwhelmed, and overwhelmed. but you can never be just whelmed. Sup wid dat?

[Maevenniia]

Look, they aren't taking anything away, you can still make the usual item, but now you have an extra recipe to make a 10-charge item. And I don't think it's completely unreasonable that it requires the infused dark matter

The only problem I can see with this recipe is that recharging the Full Capacity (FC) GVD with a mana battery should NOT result in a Half Capacity (HC) GVD, because anyone buying an FC-GVD will feel extremely ripped off when they recharge their device and get back an HC-GVD, and will probably get pissed off at the Tinker they bought it from. Not to mention it will be a PITA for Tinkerers to constantly explain this.

What SHOULD happen is a normal recharge recipe: to recharge a Full Capacity device, combine with class 6 battery = fully charged device (10 charges)

Thus these are the recipes that should exist, IMO:

Half Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device
(this recipe already exists)

• Diamond
• Small Lantern
• Reflective Shard
• Gnomish Bolts
• Steel Wire
• Haze Panther Eye

to recharge a Half Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device (anyone can recharge)
(this recipe already exists)

• Half Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device
• Mana battery - Class 5

to UPGRADE Half Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device into a
FULL Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device
**This combine should only be capable of being done by gnome tinkers & should not be possible by anyone else (unlike recharging)**
(proposed recipe already exists on Test server)

• Half Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device
• Infused Dark Matter (2)

to create a FULL Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device from scratch:
(proposed recipe already exists on Test server)

• Diamond
• Small Lantern
• Reflective Shard
• Gnomish Bolts
• Steel Wire
• Haze Panther Eye
• Infused Dark Matter (2)

to recharge a Full Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device (anyone can recharge)
(proposed recipe to REPLACE the one on Test server)

• Full Capacity Gnomish Vanishing Device
• Mana battery - Class 6

[Gello]

Have you tried to recharge it with a class 6 battery? A class 6 would make sense since it's twice the cost of a class 5.

I'm certain it's not their intent to require two separate combines (with parts that can make 3+ class 5 mana batteries) just to recharge it.

The half to full capacity convert sort of makes sense, so tinkerers aren't asked to make thousands (or hundreds heh) of new GVDs. The full to half convert doesn't make any sense and sounds like it's a copy/paste in the database.

Keep us posted, Splunge and thanks for the information.

[Mediik7th]

I wouldn't be suprised if we find out you can recharge the HCGVD with a class6 battery to get a FCGVD. Since Raw infused Dark Matter is used to make a class6 battery.

I was hoping for a new recipe as were most tinks. In that sense the FCGVD is a letdown because there's really no reason to make a FCGVD from scratch. You risk losing the Dark Matter, so its more sensible to make a normal HCGVD and just recharge it to full.

But still gratz to all the non-invisers who get 5 more charges on their GVD! Hopefully they can now carry one type of battery around to recharge both GVD and shrinkers. So in that sense this new recharge recipe is a win.

[Eleena Transient]

Shoulda been fixed duration invis. /sigh

edit: Oh, and you can right click a recipe in the UI to get a link of what it makes. No need to actually make it.

[splunge]

Oh, i attempted to combine a gvd with a class 6 battery. No go.

So its:
(any)GVD+class 5 battery = 5 charges
(any)GVD+2x Infused Dark Matter = 10 charges

...and thats it.

They had to call them seperate things because i dont think theres a way to just call it a GVD and have it get variable charges depending on what you charge it with.

[Ghismonda]

They didn't take anything away, and I appreciate that. But I too had had my hopes up for a more useful invis (instant cast, or fixed duration). Twice the charges of the same spell (which will require a drop from a zone that is locked) is not much to celebrate about in my humble opinion.

I highly suspect that the cost of raw infused dark matter will exceed that of a class 5 battery if it doesn't already on your server. But I guess now we can rejoice because the dark matter is 'useful'? :-(