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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 3567389" data-attributes="member: 29252"><p>So compare to the Wand of Cure Light Wounds.  Both would be used primarily out of combat, where the time factor doesn't much matter.  The Wand of Cure Light Wounds is expended - completely - after 50 charges of 1d8+1 points of healing (average 275 points of healing).  Takes five minutes.  A Widget of Cure Minor Wounds is still useful after healing 275 points of damage (takes 27.5 minutes).  If you use the Widget of Cure Minor Wounds for a meanginful amount of out-of-combat healing on three or four adventuring days, the cost per point of healing drops below that of the cost per point of healing on a Wand of Cure Light Wounds (which is the core most gold effecient healing stick; a Wand of Lesser Vigor does slightly better, but takes the same amount of time as a Widget of Cure Minor Wounds - just fewer actions).  After it has paid for itself (which doesn't take long), the Widget is free healing.  Wands you have to pay to replace.  If, over the course of an adventuring month, you'd go through six Wands of Cure Light Wounds for out-of-combat healing, the Widget of Cure Minor Wounds would have saved you 3,600 gp - which is a big deal, for an item that costs (estimated value) of 900 gp.  That's a Cloak of Resistance +2 instead of a Cloak of Resistance +1.</p></blockquote><p></p>