Gnomish Death Ray

Gnomish Death Ray

• Skill Level: 240 (Requires Gnome Engineering)
• Tradeable: No
• To Use: Equip in a trinket slot, target an enemy, right click to begin channeling. 5 minute cooldown.
  • As you channel (4 seconds) the device does a random amount of damage (reports in the range of 100-350 damage per tick), split over 4, 1 second ticks. When the channeling is complete, the target is zapped for approximately 7x the amount of damage that one tick did to you. When the Gnomish Death Ray fires a critical hit, the amount of damage done to the target is approxamately 14x the damage that one tick did to you. The ray seems to deal damage on a curve that is to suggest that the majority of the time it will do about 100-120 damage to the user, with a much decreased chance of doing 200+. The user will rarely see this device hit its target for more than 2000 damage, but players have reported, however uncommon, doing 4500+ damage with one hit.
• Breakdown Effects
  • None.
• Notes: This is the only reliable gnomish device that directly harms an enemy. The damage to the wearer is physical damage and preventable by shields (like, say, a  [Gnomish Harm Prevention Belt]), also the damage is negated by the Paladin's Blessing of Protection and Divine Shield. (note: 1.9 patch notes say that this is supposed to be fixed but as of 1.11.1, this still works), and the damage it deals appears unresistable except by very high level bosses. Also note that damage from other sources doesn't interrupt the channel like it would for other spells or effects. Moving still cancels the channel, leaving you with part of the damage and nothing to show for it. Obviously, use in battle, but use carefully. This is one of the few trinkets/devices that one can make with engineering that they do not need engineering to use, meaning that one could make a Gnomish Death Ray, and replace their engineering skill with another profession and it will still be usable.

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