Phat Loot Phriday: Perpetual Purple Firework
For the Fourth, we're going with the obvious choice: a hot little infinite fireworks trinket that isn't all that easy to get.Name: Perpetual Purple Firework (Wowhead, Thottbot, TCGLoot)
Type: Epic (sometimes Uncommon) Trinket
Damage/Speed: N/A
Abilities:
- Use: Shoots a purple fireworks display into the air that explodes into a rain of sparkles.
- It has infinite uses (hence the "perpetual"), and a 30 second cooldown. The whole display itself lasts about 4 seconds, but it does like pretty purty.
- No level requirements, so anyone can use it -- provided you can get it.
Fortunately, we have eBay, where people are selling and buying the UDE points for as cheap as $15. Still not really a great way to get an ingame item (spending real money for virtual stuff, woo!), but if you really want to get your hands on this trinket, there you go. Otherwise, just do a few runs of Scarlet Monastery's Armory, and you'll have all the fireworks you need.
Getting Rid of It: You can't! Vendors won't take it, and it'll never run out of charges, so the only way to get rid of it would be to destroy it. And that would be like throwing money down the drain, which is something that TCG buyers would never ever do, right? Right?
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Humor, Phat Loot Phriday, WoW TCG






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
brian Jul 4th 2008 6:11PM
what retard would buy this?
real fireworks (you know, in real life) cost less.
i have to say they are cool, but not 150$ cool
zulious@yahoo.com Jul 5th 2008 8:18PM
$150!! Its $15!
Anyways one of my old guildies gave me a bunch of codes for points and I used them to buy this for my bank alt...
Its ok but I would never spend money on it.
Sean Riley Jul 4th 2008 6:54PM
I did.
Mind you, I actually PLAY the card game, too.
And I'll randomly note that the fireworks this produces are far, far more pretty than the others in game. Although oddly, until recently they were more orange than purple. It got fixed around 2.4 or 2.4.1.
Spritetoggle Jul 4th 2008 6:14PM
Alliance also gets access to a quest reward with a similar effect: the Power Converter from a Toshley's Station quest-line. It has an unlimited use effect that shoots a single, orange firework. Sadly it also has a 5 minute cooldown.
Travis Green Jul 4th 2008 6:29PM
I have this on my mage; I didn't spend money like crazy to get it. I just saved all my UDE points when I bought a few packs of cards here and there. It's pretty cool; and fun to spam in IF.
John Jul 5th 2008 11:22AM
Um do you actually have one of these trinkets or are you just talking crap to feel cool? You cant "spam it in Iron Forge" It has a 30 second cooldown. The best you can do is 2 times a minute, I hardly call that "Spamming"
Anteia Jul 4th 2008 7:33PM
I actually got one of these for me and one for my boyfriend. I realized triyng to save up for the ogre suit was a ridiculous and pointless endeavor, and he had been sending me the points he got when he bought the card sets so we'd hae them consolidated. So instead, I surprised him one night with the code for the firework. We had enough points just from buying a few packs everytime we stopped by the store, mostly for a chance at loot cards and enjoying the comments at the bottom of the cards. I didn't go through any effort, or throw money down the drain to get it. I just like the cards, think the artwork is generally fun, and have a notebook I store them all in even though i can't play the card game to save my life.
lolatyou Jul 5th 2008 3:08AM
geek
Faar Jul 5th 2008 5:41AM
Article writer states:
"Still not really a great way to get an ingame item (spending real money for virtual stuff, woo!)"
No? Seems a strange thing to state for someone writing for a MMO site; don't we all spend money for virtual stuff already every month?
I've been paying for virtual items for close to 3.5 years now (actually, paying for two accounts since nearly a full year).