Cheap Favorite Magic Items

[Krash]

What magic items to you seem underpriced for their usefulness under the regular un-errata'd rules.

Boots of springing/striding are obvious...can anyone think of other staple magic items that they couldn't live without that are too cheap?

Ta !

 

[Bauglir]

Cloak & Boots of Elvenkind spring to mind.

At 1k GP, any paladin without a phylactory of faithfulness would be insane.

 

[Brekki]

Necklace of Prayer Beads (Karma), pretty much all my clerics and druids have one.

 

[Shaele]

Hewards handy haversack. Pull out scrolls, wands, potions as a free action. 2000 gp

Cloak of resistance +1. 1000 gp

Boots of striding and springing. Double movement. Still a bargain at 6000 gp (errata price)

Wand of cure light wounds. 50 charges. 750 gp. Much cheaper than potions or scrolls.

 

[Thresher]

Gloves of storing, damned handy for packing away a holdout weapon or ranged weapon thats a bit awkward when the enemy closes.

Hat of disguise, depends on the character Im playing but most anyone doing anything covert from time to time can find a use for it.

Wand of Cure light wounds, essential for just about any cleric (or rogue) up to around 6th level, then you'll probably want to get a Cure Moderate one.

Type 1 bag of holding or a Hewards, just for carrying off the loot or for poor weak wizzies who have to carry around a lot of books.

 

[Darklone]

Bracers of Archery.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Quaal's Feather Token: Tree

Hundreds of uses ... you just never know when a 60 foot redwood will come in handy.

Also, burnt out ioun stones, cast with continual flame -- make for torches you don't have to carry!

 

[Naar]

Wings of Flying. Far better than Winged Boots, and yet much cheaper.

 

[Pax]

Well, while it's non-core: a Permanent Rune of Faith Healing. 2,000gp, for unlimited healing (at 9hp per use), the only caveat being, you have to worship the same deity as the fellow who scribes the Rune.

Mind you, you can scribe those onto ANY other item ... like those "useless" Ioun Stone torches.

 

[Rel]

Quaal's Feather Token: Tree

Hundreds of uses ... you just never know when a 60 foot redwood will come in handy.

Also, burnt out ioun stones, cast with continual flame -- make for torches you don't have to carry!

The QFT: Tree rocks! I had one that saved my little halfling butt just the other night. I bought another one to replace it and next time it should be even more handy since I also bought two more items that I think are great for their price: Slippers of Spider Climbing and a Ring of Jumping. Picture my Halfling Rogue leaping from limb to limb and climbing with ease, all over my QFT: Tree!

One thing about the continual flame ioun stones: I think they're neat and all that, but couldn't you just as easily hang a continual flame torch off your belt to get the same "hands-free" effect?

 

[kreynolds]

Wand of cure light wounds. 50 charges. 750 gp. Much cheaper than potions or scrolls.

That's because you can't use it if cure light wounds isn't on your class spell list. I don't know many fighters with that spell.

 

[Spatzimaus]

Any item that provides a competence bonus to skills. They're just too cheap. By buying a cloak and a pair of boots, I can duplicate what it'd take a Rogue 7 levels to do.

Anything involving Haste or flight.

Wondrous Items that give unlimited use of a spell, whether it's an always-on effect or just something you can activate at will. I'm fine with Rings that do this, though.

Anything that holds an item with zero weight, in a location inaccessible to others but trivial for you to retreive it. Bag of Holding, HHH, Gloves of Storing, Quiver of Ehlonna, whatever.

Cloaks of Resistance.

 

[Zhure]

Pearls of Power.
Ring of Sustenance. It'll pay for itself in about 13 years just in food costs alone.

 

[DM_Matt]

For a PsiWar or Psion, that 10k item that makes every power cast cost 1pp less is necessity.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Anything that holds an item in a location inaccessible to others but trivial for you to retreive it. Quiver of Ehlonna...

Waiting for kreynolds to weigh in on that one

Weren't Wings of Flying errata'd to around the same price as Winged Boots?

-Hyp.

 

[rhammer2]

I believe they were errata'd to twice the price of a pair of winged boots (around 24k). I don't have my books handy so I am not 100% certain of the price.

Waiting for kreynolds to weigh in on that one

Weren't Wings of Flying errata'd to around the same price as Winged Boots?

-Hyp.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I believe they were errata'd to twice the price of a pair of winged boots (around 24k). I don't have my books handy so I am not 100% certain of the price.

Ha. I thought I remembered 12k, but you're right - on the SRD Wondrous Items table, they're priced at 22k.

The SRD Minor Wondrous Items table.
Right between the Wind Fan at 5500 and Druid's Vestments at 5800

-Hyp.

 

[Sejs]

Dull Grey Ioun Stone (25gp)

Anything that can cast Message with a command word

Phylacrity of Faithfulness (1,000gp)

Anything that can cast Cure Minor Wounds with some kind of activation.

Ring of Jumping (2,000gp)

Potion of Wisdom - or as it's more commonly know, Liquid Will Save (300gp ea)

Ring of Counterspells - loaded with Dispel Magic (4,000gp)

Ring of Sustenance - amazing for melee types: longer watches, more overland travel in a day, etc(2,500gp)

Immovable Rod (7,500gp)

Staff of Size Alteration - locked door? What locked door?(6,500gp)

Anything that can cast Identify with a command word... stupid 8 hour normal casting time.

Quall's Feather Token: Tree - god these are so useful, I can't even begin (100gp)

Robe of Useful Items - who DOESN'T need a 10ft pit sometimes? Or a door.. or a window.. (7,000gp)

Steadfast Boots (6,000gp)

 

[Hypersmurf]

Anything that can cast Message with a command word

Or, I sneer at your Mirror Image spell.

Anything that can cast Identify with a command word... stupid 8 hour normal casting time.

"Activating a magic item is a standard action unless the item indicates otherwise. However, the casting time of a spell is the time required to activate the same power in an item, whether it’s a scroll, a wand, or a pair of boots, unless the item description specifically states otherwise."

Want a quick Identify? Play a Cleric with the Magic domain and the Create Infusion feat.

-Hyp.

 

[Sejs]

Or, I sneer at your Mirror Image spell.

Heh, I figure hey - if Magic Missle does it, why can't I too? Actually, I was thinking for the communications at range thing, but yeah I suppose it could be used for more .. *ahem* tactical uses as well.

^_^

"Activating a magic item is a standard action unless the item indicates otherwise. However, the casting time of a spell is the time required to activate the same power in an item, whether it’s a scroll, a wand, or a pair of boots, unless the item description specifically states otherwise."

Curses, foiled again!

Want a quick Identify?

Yes, please

Play a Cleric with the Magic domain and the Create Infusion feat.

Poop, but not that way. I have a real hate-on for the Create Infusion feat. So potions store spells that affect the imbiber.. that's cool, it's a liquid spell. And wands store spells, but to trigger the pattern of stored energy you have to be able to cast the spell by some means otherwise - you need to be familiar with it to be able to trigger the wand. Cool. But infusions.. I take this herb and I make it do -anything- divine.. cause.. well, just because. Nope. Nuh uh, I don't likes it. I don't like Death Knell herbs, or Invisibility Purge herbs, or Atonement herbs, or Control Weather herbs, or Searing Light herbs, or Sound Burst herbs, or Make Whole herbs.

I don't like 'em. Not one bit.