Boots of speed pricing

[Sir Pentor]

Why do boots of speed cost 8,000gp? I can't make sense out of it given the rules for making magic items.

Thanks

 

[Henrix]

There are no rules as such for pricing magic items, just very rough guidelines.
Some items should be more expensive than the guideline indicates, others less.

 

[kreynolds]

Like I always say, making magic items is an art, not just science.

 

[Crothian]

Some items are more useful then others, so the makers decided the price should be a bit higher. Pricing magical items is not an exact science.

 

[Victim]

Actually, Boots of Speed are underpriced by the creation guidelines.

Level 3 spell * 10 caster level * 1800 command word / 5 for once per day=

10800, not counting the ability to split the effect into separate increments.

Considering the power of the effect, one would expect a higher than base price as well, not a lower one.

 

[kreynolds]

Considering the power of the effect, one would expect a higher than base price as well, not a lower one.

I don't see a problem with it being that low. It's a nifty magic item, but it isn't all that powerful. Besides, you must be able to speak to activate them, making them absolutely worthless in an area under a silencing effect, provided you hadn't already activated them of course.

 

[Magus_Jerel]

The price is a bit low... and I don't see why.

It is like the thing got a 25% discount off the base price. Dunno.

Have to think about it.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

8000g strikes me as a good price. It's high enough to keep a PC from casually buying a pair, but low enough to be purchasable. In my party of 6 PCs now 13th-level, only one of us has gotten around to purchasing these boots. There are just a lot of other things a PC is going to want to buy.

I can see this price being more of a problem in a party which has an Item Crafter (our party does not.) If you're crafting the boots yourself, you're looking at only 4000gp and 320xp, and that is cheap.