Battery  

Do these sell well? I can't find anything else to get me past 60. Venom potions don't work so well yet and I'm not leveling Bonecraft for Sleep Bolt Heads.

I'm sure you can buy these in art Urhgan in the alchemist shop, they're right at the bottom, next to wind pumps etc.

These things are pretty much useless because you have to use one per hit you initiate on an enemy. Pretty much a waste of money in my eyes!

My question is why thunder, water, and wind... Why no weapons that use fire enchantment, or Ice and such? Or better yet, SE making these weapons only require that you have the item equipped and not use one up every successful hit! I would think that would be more worthwhile than having to spend gazillions of gil just to buy them...sadly my opinions really mean nothing in the end...

Is the smithing requirement for this really 56? With only tin ingots, it seems that is too high. If anyone has had experience crafting these, I'd like to know what the smithing requirement really is. thanks

I just would hope some of u high level crafters would start cooking some up , I've looked in Windy, Sandy, Basky, and Jueno, and found none avaible in stacks of 99, You make um, I'll buy um, Good for those tough fights.

i dont think i have ever seen anyone ever use one of these things, are they really worth it?

ive heard that all these things (wind fans, batteries, hydro pumps) can add up to insane amounts of dmg but liek mentioned b4, they're way overpriced and in very short supply

I think that the Battery activates a special ability. It does an amount of lightning damage depending on what type of battery it is (hence the higher-level batteries have greater effects) but you have to have a spark weapon ("Spark Dagger" for example) equipped to activate the effect. It's the same as casting Enthunder.

The Hydro weapons and the Water Barrels are the same, with an Enwater effect.

Where in the name of the great lord are batteries found ive looked everywhere in the AH where are they?!?

I dont know about 3 types of batteries but there are Batteries and Mega Batteries.

The weapons when using the Battery will give a spark charge every so often and use a Battery per spark.(Not sure with the Mega Battery though)

Sort of like Enthunder, but not on every attack.

Anywise, the damage is not that much with a Battery(6-10 damage is all)

And on a bad side, you have to put these into your ammo slot.

This means that you cannot have a Bow or Boomerang equiped while using a Battery.

Unless the Spark effect is enhanced or unless the Batteries last longer then one usage, then this is a worthless addition IMHO.

Might be usable if you have infinite gil and infinite space on your character and you need a special weapon for something.

But otherwise...these spark weapons blow chunks.

Battery is "ammo" for certain equipment that uses it.

The spark biblo as an example, deals an additional 25 electrical damage per battery used, on top of the regular damage you do with the sword. Hence, pretty powerful stuff, but way in short supply and overpriced.

someone posted this in the craft forums here at Alchemy 56-59 Battery = Water + Copper ingot + Tin ingot + Cermet Chunk + Rock Salt + Lightning cluster + Dis. Water (BSmithing also)


I would assumes its 56-59alchemy and 56-59 blacksmithng. And that lightning cluster is rather curios, might be why 99 are 30k on AH (plus from the lvl required)

Edited, Thu Jan 29 15:51:51 2004

they are listed under "ammo"

Its interesting that so little is know about these. i own the "spark spear" and it does say that a battery will add thunder damage. i checked the history of the bastok AH on pandemonium and only 1 had ever sold for 500. this was not a 99 stack.


i figure that as long as no one knows about these batteries or how to make them that people can get away with charging 30k for them. so lets find a recipe!

nothing more then a guess but i figure that lightning crystals have something to do with the sysntesis of this item.

from what i have seen, there are 3 types of batteries, lvl 10 batteries, lvl 30 kilo batteries, and lvl 50(not sure on this oen) mega batteries,

fraid to say i havent seen any of these in the 3 nation's AHs, but there are usually a bunch of the higher level ones in jeuno's AH, as for the level 10 batteries, they sell in stacks of 99, and for about 30k+ on Caitsith

as for how they are used, from what i have heard(havent gotten a chance to test this) they use one charge/battery per strike(a bit pricey, at 300 gil a shot) but they seem to also be pretty good damage.

not sure how to obtain these, only hints ive heard is that they take high alchemy skill to make(This is Strictly by word of mouth, no idea if its true)

how does this work? how often do you go through batteries? theres a polearm i want that adds lightning damage if i have a battery but ive got no clue what to do ...

If you look in the AH, there's an item called a Spark Bilbo, that when you have a battery equipped, has a thunder effect; Looks like these can be used to power special items and equipment?