Phat Loot Phriday: Gadgetstorm Goggles
by Mike Schramm 
Aug 29th 2008 at 6:00PM
Name: Gadgetstorm Goggles (Wowhead, Thottbot, Wowdb)
Type: Epic Mail Headpiece
Armory: 726
Abilities:
- +28 Stamina
- A meta and blue socket, with a socket bonus of +5 spell damage and healing
- Requires Engineering 350 to wear -- if you lose your Engineering skill for some reason, you won't be able to wear these anymore. See "How to Get It" below.
- On equip: improves spell hit rating by 12, spell crit rating by 40, and increases damage and healing up to 55. Pretty sweet for a helm.
- Also on equip: shows the location of all gas clouds on the minimap, very useful if you've got a mote extractor (and if you're Engineering at this level you should).
- And on use, allows you to see into the distance. This is similar to the Shaman Farseeing spell -- only really useful in certain instances, but kind of a little added bonus to wearing the goggles.
- Very good gear for caster Shaman Engineers, which admittedly is a small group. But Blizzard catering to historically ignored gear specs like this is good to see.
But get the skill, train the recipe, grab the mats, and the Goggles are yours. In my humble opinion, it's one of the cooler-looking crafted helms out there, too. Assimilate or die!
Getting Rid of It: Sells to vendors for 5g 83s 63c, and of course with the Engineering requirement on it, it's BoP. Does disenchant into a Void Crystal however. But it'd be an expensive Void Crystal.
Filed under: Enchanting, Items, Odds and ends, Phat Loot Phriday
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Styopa Aug 29th 2008 6:13PM
"See, this is (one reason why) everyone wants to be an Engineer. "
You've GOT to be f'ing kidding.
Yes, engineers got nice headgear, as well as a sweet mount this last cycle. Engineers have languished with CRAPPY plans, nothing from rep (ooooh Zandalar!) gains, colored smoke (!), and a profession whose main things a) can't really be used in combat (ok they can be used in combat but you can't switch trinkets like you can weapons or pots, so their utility is very limited) and b) have a chance to FAIL, quite often with negative albeit hilarious results.
Imagine healing potions that 'occasionally' did 500-1000 pts of damage. Mana pots that 'occasionally' stunned you for 1-3 seconds. Oh, and that you can't sell to anyone else.
I'm in engineering and staying here because I'm an optimistic masochist. But 'See, this is (one reason why) everyone wants to be an Engineer.'? HAHAHAHAHAHA
Zep Aug 29th 2008 6:25PM
Sure they're cool goggles... but the statement 'everyone wants to be an engineer' is kind of comical, seeing as how engineering is probably the worst profession by most standards.
georgeasmith Aug 29th 2008 6:31PM
This IS the only reason I took up engeneering. I'm dropping for insriptions though.
Linkage Aug 29th 2008 6:30PM
Although not a money maker, engineering is a great profession to have at end game for pretty much any class. We got:
Lockpicking (which is spectacular for SH, Arc, and SL)
In-Raid repair
Chance on rez
A bow or gun enchant
A gyrocopter
A buyable Head piece recipe that rivals T5 (with a drop recipe in sunwell that's T6 equivalent)
The ability to pluck motes out of the air (heck, with mining you barely have to kill anything at all for your primals)
Armath Aug 30th 2008 4:18PM
The featured item is only one of a set of similar goggles, each featuring mote tracking and distance vision, but each one targeted at a different spec. My mage has a set of Destruction Holo-Gogs which is a piece of epic cloth headgear with similar abilities. I think that this is one of those situations that you could have listed all of them in this column, instead of only the caster/mail one.
KJP Aug 29th 2008 7:08PM
One important item omitted from the "how to get it" section: to craft this specific item you MUST be a shaman. There are in fact nine different engineering goggles of this power level, one for each class and only learnable by that class.
Also of note: Each of the nine goggles also has an upgrade, whose schematic drops from Sunwell Plateau trash mobs. Those schematics are NOT BoP and if you are fortunate and skilled (or rich) enough to obtain the one for your class, the additional materials are relatively easy to obtain.
KJP Aug 29th 2008 7:29PM
Whoops, check that, actually there's eleven. So some classes get more than one (and there might be some crossover).
erin Aug 29th 2008 7:25PM
It might be worth noting that there are different versions of these goggles available, depending on the class of the engineer in question.
For example my Rogue gets the appropriate armour class - leather http://thottbot.com/i32478
Driphter Aug 30th 2008 1:59PM
Talk more about shaman imo.
~Driphter
Zanathos Aug 30th 2008 9:02PM
Usually like wow insider articles but this one was fairly disappointing. As noted, everyone wants to be an engineer...aside from long time engineers. Epic goggles, rolfcopter, and mote extractor are pretty much the entirety of BC engineering. And don't leatherworkers get a 3-piece set of BOP gear? What are you complaining about? I don't see end game guilds making people get engineering for Drums.
The mats for the various goggles are actually very cheap, as far as epic crafted items go. Back when nethers were BOP, that was the hurdle for people to aquire them (aside from the relative lateness they appeared int he expansion).