I made lots of runed switches, mostly for fun, because my 2 chars had all the skills between them, but no one ever needed them. I couldn't even give them away. I think I ended up dumping them out on the ground by a bank when I dropped a house. Do people actually use them to recharge their talisman?
*edit*
LOL...found
this old post by someone:
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how to make 10 Runed Switches...
On GM Miner (with sand mining ability)
Collect 80 sand
On GM Lumberjack
Collect 10 switches
On GM Alchemist (with glassblowing ability)
Create 10 Hollow Prisms
Requires: 80 sand
On GM Inscriber
Create 10 Runed Prisms
Requires: 1 Hollow Prism, 1 blank scroll, 1 spider silk, 1 black pearl
Create 10 Enchanted Switches
Requires: 1 blank scroll, 1 spiders silk, 1 black pearl, 1 switch
On GM Tinker
Create 10 Jeweled Filigrees
Requires: 2 ingots, 1 star sapphire, 1 ruby
On GM Carpenter
Create 10 Runed Switches
Requires: 1 Enchanted Switch, 1 Runed Prism, 1 Jeweled Filigree, 2 boards/logs
At any stage you may fail to make an item and so may need extra ingredients. And, of course, most of the ingredients don't stack so you will get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from all the clicking and dragging.
Who was the nutter that came up with this recipe?
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I agree with that last sentence...I think the devs who created ML had connections in the carpal tunnel syndrome treatment industry.
The sand collection is the worst IMO. I have always thought, with bottles available for 15GP each from NPC vendors (10GP for cheap faction town) as time consuming as it is to dig up sand, and the nuisance that it doesn't stack in your pack...making ONE bottle for ONE sand pile, is insane. That is basically a wasted option in the glassblowing menu. Also, having to haul your crafter out to gargoyle city, just to buy a crummy glass blowing pipe that might have 30 uses on it if you are lucky...grrrr...but I digress.
I also hated how component intensive it was to make these. While the switches themselves stack, the runed switches do not (can't remember if the enchanted ones do). Also, the jeweled filigree do not stack.
If you use colored boards for that last step (2 boards) the runed switch retains the wood color, but it doesn't make the switch any more powerful from what I recall.
-Skylark
