Cannith Goggles Question

[CAFRedblade]

The Cannith Goggles have the ability to bestow Darkvision by expending an encounter or daily power. Sniped below:
"Expend an arcane encounter or daily power to use this power."

I'm DM'ing and some of my players are reading this as expend an arcane encounter power, or any old daily for the requisite effects.
Arcane Encounter for the encounter effect, and
Any Class Daily for the daily effect.

They've bought them at higher level character creation.
Upon a recent re-reading, I think the sentence structure indicates that you are required to expend Arcane type powers only, encounter or daily.

Thoughts?
And thanks in advance for any help on clarification.

 

[mneme]

The daily power needs to be arcane too.

But the at-will you got from your wizard multiclass is an arcane encounter power.

 

[Oompa]

I to would rule that both powers should be arcane.

 

[Aulirophile]

Yeah, the daily needs to be Arcane. The language, the flavor text, etc., all make that pretty abundantly clear.

 

[keterys]

Just as an aside, about Cannith Goggles...

They're a playtest item that did not succeed in getting published. They're clearly mispriced (compare to the other same level goggles that are worse in every respect).

It's probably worth moving past "How do these work" straight to "Let's not use this item"

 

[mneme]

keterys: unfortunately, they're legal in LFR.

 

[Aulirophile]

Just as an aside, about Cannith Goggles...

They're a playtest item that did not succeed in getting published. They're clearly mispriced (compare to the other same level goggles that are worse in every respect).

It's probably worth moving past "How do these work" straight to "Let's not use this item"

? They were published in Dragon 365. If you're going to weed out every single item that does something better then similar but higher-priced items, why stop there? I can think of dozens of items like that. And class powers. And feats.

 

[keterys]

They were in Dragon 365, in the "artificer playtest" article. Most of the material therein has since changed. Those did not, but they did _actually_ publish a same-level item that gives out just a +1 bonus to perception. Which makes sense, given it being level 1.

The Cannith Goggles are about a level 6 or so item and never made it off the playtest floor. That's why I'm pointing it out. Easier to just go "meh" and not use them. Course, a player would be silly to pass up the free +1 perception by buying the alternate item, so "meh" guess it'll just get out into games unless they remove it from the character builder and compendium. Hmm.