Phat Loot Phriday: Loot-A-Rang

As Lolegolas collected his things to leave, a strange object slammed into the humans. It looked like it could be a wooden cutout of the letter "V," but a dozen whirling gears were firing at random and spinning like crazy. Small arms and gadgets rifled through the humans' pockets before, finally, the object took off back to the air. It landed with a thud in a thick, black leather glove.
"Oh, god," Lolegolas sighed. "Of course it's you."
"Halt, evil-doer! Miscreant!" the newcomer exclaimed. "Thug! Rogue!"
"Of course. All of Dalaran, and this is exactly where you are," Lolegolas said. "Throgg, what are you doing?"
"I am not Throgg!" the large orc bellowed. He was wearing head-to-toe black leather and a vast sweeping cape. "I am Bat-Throgg!"
"And what was that thing?" Lolegolas said. He gestured for the passing brewmaiden to bring him another wine cooler. "It took all the loot from the humans."
"That is my Bat-Loot-A-Rang! It is my trusty tool in fighting evil."
Lolegolas rested his face in his hands as his wine cooler arrived. "Loot-A-Rang. What does it do?"
Throgg lifted the mechanical item in the air, flexing his bicep as he did so. "I throw it at the corpses of my enemies, and it retrieves their gold and items for me. Very handy, very convenient. It collects the loot and it gives me 56 stamina."
"And, you just run around Dalaran throwing it at people, then? That's your idea of a good time?"
Throgg smiled slowly. "Can be yours, too!"
Lolegolas gasped as the orc lifted a shiny, green thong in the air.
Name Loot-A-Rang
Type Trinket
Attributes
- 56 Stamina
- Retrieves the loot from a nearby corpse. (10 sec cooldown.)
How to get rid of it It sells for 2 gold and 25 silver. It can disenchant into a nexus crystal or a small glimmering shard.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Zahira Aug 20th 2010 7:03PM
That is awesome, now if only it could be used by non-engineers *sigh*
Heilig Aug 21st 2010 4:11AM
"That is awesome, now if only it could be used from your bag instead of equipped."
Fixed that for you.
Zahira Aug 21st 2010 12:51PM
Yeah that would be sweet too! :)
Anathemys Aug 20th 2010 7:05PM
See? THIS is why I went engineering. Random half-useless gadgets that serve only to make one wonder on the sanity of the profession designers. That, and a motorcycle. Oh, and a parachute. And rocket boots. And hand-rockets.
And robots.
Kuro Aug 20th 2010 7:23PM
...and an AH in Dal...
...must resist turning all toons in to Engineers...
elstor Aug 20th 2010 7:28PM
As one of the worst engineers of all time (Our boy Mekgineer Thermaplugg) would say, "More explosions! We need more explosions!"
Linkinator08 Aug 20th 2010 7:35PM
And shrink-rays and snowball-making machines and mechanical squirrels!
And Wormholes!
Jormund Fenris Aug 20th 2010 8:35PM
Indeed, This thing is almost too epic for mortal eyes, and a worthy addition to an engineer's already considerable epicness.
Now if we could only get a troll npc called "dafonz" on water-skies jumping over the shark/dinosaur/metalhead npc in the maelstrom And Cataclysm can be shipped. Doesn't matter if there's a lot of missing items, quests or terrain, people's minds will still be blown before even logging in.
Jonisjalopy Aug 21st 2010 1:58AM
Did someone mention Frag Grenades? Ohh, and my helicoptor. And the Hyperspeed Accelerators. And my buddy Jeeves. Ooo and mind control. Can't forget mind control.
Why do people even roll other professions?
Benjamin Aug 21st 2010 2:39PM
@elstor that's just cuz he's a gnome engineer trying to pretend he's a goblin engineer. if mekgineer thermaplugg wasn't a gnome, he wouldn't be so bad at what he does
Vogie Aug 20th 2010 7:05PM
That does it... I'm switching my lock to engineering. The worst part of an affliction lock is having to stop and loot, and this solves that problem.
Jack Miles Aug 20th 2010 9:54PM
10 second CD...
We're engineers, we can deal with that. Just build an uber-powered cooling device that doubles as a flamethrower.... That shoots dancing robots...
brian Aug 20th 2010 10:25PM
"Retrieves the loot from a nearby corpse. (10 sec cooldown)"
...*a* nearby corpse.
From the wording it looks like it only loots one corpse, though :/
Either give it no cooldown and let the engineer spam it on each corpse, have it it "Retrieve the loot from nearby corpses." or "Retrieve the loot from the target and nearby corpses."
Kakistocracy Aug 21st 2010 9:20AM
Or juice it up, and let it retrieve loot from still living targets...
vinniedcleaner Aug 21st 2010 9:39AM
Sounds like a great idea, pickpocketing is one of the last (or is it the last?!?) rogue ability that hasn't been co-opted by another class/profession....
pancakes Aug 20th 2010 7:07PM
Oh Mr Phat Loot Phriday, I do enjoy you so.
Ryu3010 Aug 20th 2010 7:08PM
that's gotta be the most awesome trinket I've ever heard of
razion Aug 20th 2010 7:24PM
It loots... from a distance! The number of times I've killed an elite at the same time as me only to come back a minute later with it re-spawned at the same area with all my cool-downs up would make this Trinket VERY useful.
The only way they could make this trinket better is if they took away the equip-timer-CD--the thirty seconds after you equip it that prevents you from immediately using the effect. In that sort of rare situation, usually there are more respawns--groups of them, sometimes. Might be better if this was an on-use item?
loop_not_defined Aug 20th 2010 7:09PM
I've been keeping lists of the profession recipes as they're updated in Beta, if you folks want to take a gander.
Commence shameless whoring:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/736999-Compilation-Profession-Lists
devilsei Aug 20th 2010 7:20PM
Nice job with the list!
Personally I'm interested in this and the bolt gun trinket, though I think the latter would be better served as a glove, or dare I say belt, attachment...
Macro that in with a pelvic thrust emote...