05-05-2004, 09:19 AM
Quote:...you can make a pet mechanical squirrel,...I have not seen the formula for building one of these in the lists anywhere, nor have I ever seen any other player running around with one these mechanical squirrels. Some of the information that has been posted on the official site has been outright inncorrect at the time that it is actually put up. Until I see others actually in the game talking about these things or the actual formulas listed at some NPC, I will reguard many of these with a large bit of salt.
Quote:...charges to blast open locked chests, land mines, speed-enhancing rocket boots,...All of these are pretty much at journeyman level or higher for being able to do. As such it will probably be at character levels of 15+ before you can afford the skill points to be actually thinking of getting these to use (and probably at lot later due to need ing to get other things to go along with it).
Quote:...and (my favorite) jumper cables that you can use to try and resurrect someone.This was one of the highest listed formulas at the trainers (upper expert level required) and would be quite awhile before most player could expect to get access to it. Most of the classes that have a raise dead spell would have had their version long before this.
Quote:I'm not in the beta and so I don't know how useful all this would be, but it certainly seems pretty cool - probably the skill I'll try out first.Better plan on it being the second trade skill you try out. The materials that you get from mining are some of the starting items you will need to do engineering. While you could try purchasing these items from the open market, their cost would likely be too prohibative to be a practical source in the earlier part of the game. It is much cheaper to be getting the materials from your own gathering skill in the first part of the game.