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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5208959" data-attributes="member: 1210">Oops! Yep, sure did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The effect is permanent. If you have a 1st level item and you apply a level 11 ointment to it, it will &quot;power up&quot; to the 11th level version. 6th level ointment won't do jack to it, though. The ointment can skip intermediate values, no problem.Looked at from a cost analysis, the ointment &quot;costs&quot; slightly more than enchanting the new item yourself- there's no real reason to ever buy Mordenkainen's ointment of your level or lower, it's a losing proposition (since you don't &quot;get back&quot; the 20% of the lower level item's value like you would if you disenchanted it and enchanted a new one). Nonetheless, as treasure found, the ointment allows pcs to choose a favored but lower-level item and upgrade it to keep it useful.Note that using the ointment expends it, but it is priced as a wondrous item rather than a consumable. This, obviously, is because if you price it as a consumable, it is far cheaper to make your higher-level items with ointment than to simply enchant them- the opposite effect of what I wanted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5208959, member: 1210"] Oops! Yep, sure did. :D The effect is permanent. If you have a 1st level item and you apply a level 11 ointment to it, it will "power up" to the 11th level version. 6th level ointment won't do jack to it, though. The ointment can skip intermediate values, no problem. Looked at from a cost analysis, the ointment "costs" slightly more than enchanting the new item yourself- there's no real reason to ever buy [i]Mordenkainen's ointment[/i] of your level or lower, it's a losing proposition (since you don't "get back" the 20% of the lower level item's value like you would if you disenchanted it and enchanted a new one). Nonetheless, as treasure found, the ointment allows pcs to choose a favored but lower-level item and upgrade it to keep it useful. Note that using the ointment expends it, but it is priced as a wondrous item rather than a consumable. This, obviously, is because if you price it as a consumable, it is far cheaper to make your higher-level items with ointment than to simply enchant them- the opposite effect of what I wanted. [/QUOTE]

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