Phat Loot Phriday: Crystal Charge

Going back to just hefty loot today, since we've been doing high end stuff for a few weeks now. This is a non-engineer explosive that packs about as big a punch as you're going to get.
Name: Crystal Charge (Wowhead, Thottbot, MMODB)
Type: Consumable
Damage/Speed: N/A (See below)
Abilities:
That quest requires that you grab 10 Red Power Crystals and 10 Yellow Power Crystals from the deposits around Un'Goro. Bring those back (or just bring them along-- you don't need the quest to collect the crystals, and you might even find them on the AH if someone on your server is trying to clean out their bags), and you'll get 6 Crystal Charges for each turn-in of 10.
Getting Rid of It: Sells to vendors for 10s. While the Power Crystals themselves are BoE (or at least not soulbound), the Charges are BoP, so sell them or use them.
Name: Crystal Charge (Wowhead, Thottbot, MMODB)
Type: Consumable
Damage/Speed: N/A (See below)
Abilities:
- Use: Inflicts 383 to 517 fire damage in a three yard radius.
- Does not require an engineer to throw, although it is consumable. And I'll make another extreme statement (even though, like I said last week, you wily commenters usually prove me wrong): this is the most damaging non-Engineer thrown consumable. The Essence of Eranikus actually does more damage over time, but it's a trinket, and this is the highest damage non-Engineer grenade that I could find.
- And, dear readers, I actually went into the game and did a little playtesting with this stuff just for you. Unfortunately, I have to report that it does not add spell damage (I wasn't surprised by that, but I can confirm that it doesn't).
- But it does in fact crit-- I had one of my charges break 575. And I also used it on multiple targets, so if you can fit more than one thing in the (small) 3 yard radius, you can hit them all with ~400+ fire damage.
That quest requires that you grab 10 Red Power Crystals and 10 Yellow Power Crystals from the deposits around Un'Goro. Bring those back (or just bring them along-- you don't need the quest to collect the crystals, and you might even find them on the AH if someone on your server is trying to clean out their bags), and you'll get 6 Crystal Charges for each turn-in of 10.
Getting Rid of It: Sells to vendors for 10s. While the Power Crystals themselves are BoE (or at least not soulbound), the Charges are BoP, so sell them or use them.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matthew Feb 1st 2008 8:18PM
Does it stun? If not, it's probably not worth tracking down all the crystals for these.
Zeplar Feb 1st 2008 8:56PM
:( this is not phat at all. Even in the 50's when you get it, it;s not phat. The only reason I got the crystals was for the BRD libram head+leg enchants, and the damage shield crystal.
Aerei Feb 1st 2008 9:00PM
J.D. is a -female- gnome.
A Man In Black Feb 2nd 2008 5:51AM
This is not phat at all. What, is next week's Phat Loot going to be The Stoppable Force?
RogueJedi86 Feb 2nd 2008 7:47AM
I guess you didn't read the article. The first line was "Going back to just hefty loot today, since we've been doing high end stuff for a few weeks now." It never claimed to be phat, this is just the name of the article series.
I'm glad that for once it's a loot you don't have to be in a Black Temple raiding guild to get.
Kryptonls Feb 2nd 2008 5:42AM
This is just silly 'phat' loot. It's really not that good, is it?