Gnomish Shrink Ray

• Gnomish Shrink Ray
• Item Level 41Disenchants into:
   [Vision Dust]: 2-5 (20%)
   [Lesser Nether Essence]: 1-2 (75%)
   [Small Radiant Shard]: 1 (5%)
• Binds when equipped
• Trinket
• Use: Shrinks the target reducing their attack power by 250. That's what it usually does anyway.....
• Requires Engineering (205)
• Sell Price: 7 50

The Gnomish Shrink Ray is a trinket that shrinks the target reducing their attack power by 250.

Source

Gnomish Shrink Ray is crafted by Engineers with a minimum skill level of 205 who also have the Gnomish Engineering specialty.

Materials Required

	1x [Mithril Tube]			1x [Unstable Trigger]
	4x [Mithril Bar]			2x [Jade]

The recipe for this item is learned from a Gnomish Engineering Trainer.

Notes

As most Gnomish Engineering devices, it can backfire with the following possible effects:

• Make the user bigger (attack power +250)
• Make the user smaller (attack power -250)
• Make the target bigger (same effect as above)
• Make the user's entire party bigger
• Make the user's entire party smaller
• Make every attacking enemy bigger
• Make every attacking enemy smaller
• Give shield-wielding enemies "Improved Blocking" for 30 seconds (this shows no visible effect other than target is hit by the ray)

This item can affect a majority, if not *all* of the mobs in the game. It can be entertaining to see miniature raid bosses running around, but be careful, as you can grow them as well!

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Shrinking works for most of the raid bosses too...

Background

This section contains information from the Warcraft RPG which is considered non-canon.

Gnomes are small creatures, and as such they have to look up at members of most other races - even the dwarves with whom they now share the tunnels of Ironforge. Most gnomes can't help but be intimidated when facing a much larger human, orc, or worst of all tauren in hand-to-hand combat. The gnomish shrink ray is the result of years of searching for a way to bring such opponents down to their size. The device looks like a series of concentric plates mounted around a central tip, surrounded by coiled truesilver wires. At the device's core is a chaos generator, which projects a specialized beam through the tip when the trigger is pulled. A gnomish shrink ray is operated like a gun, but has no ammunition and projects a lightning-like ray.

Patch changes

Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): No longer requires  [Flask of Mojo].

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB