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Comment by 6901

I get about a 50% success rate with these. Nothing's better than a hunter rez though. ;)

Comment by Petergriffin

Very helpful item but doesnt work all the time. It can be a life saver or a dud but if your entire group wipes and you happen to have these you defintly should use them.

Comment by Taiyoumaru

I've found this of extremely particular importance as a substitue combat ressurection. If you're a rogue or hunter, you can vanish/feign death to quickly exit combat and attempt a ressurection on a dead raid member and pray it works. Recently though, I've noticed it has failed every time I've used it, or my friend used it. It may be bugged. And this is after about 40 uses since last patch, out of which only 3 worked.

Comment by 4067

This is all subjective of course, but I'd personally put the success rate at about 60%. However, I seem to have a higher success rate on lower level people. Entirely possible that it's just co-incidence but worth mentioning all the same.

Comment by justgiz

Do these share the same cool down as the other cables?

Comment by Thottbot

Yes you can't use both at once, but now they won't break when they fail!

"Jumper Cables no longer have a chance to break when they fail. "

Comment by Thottbot

yes u can ress ppl after they have released their sprit. i did it with the "non-xL" version...

Comment by Thottbot

"cuz everytime i try to eq it says ur not skilled enough to use the item thx"

Look, either read THIS page, or read the ITEM's TOOLTIP. Requires 265 Engineering to USE. Requires Goblin Engineer to MAKE. This means:

1) An engineer with at least 265 skill and specialising in Goblin Engineering can learn the schematic, create the cables, and use them.

2) An engineer with at least 265 skill and specialising in Gnomish Engineering (or neither) can NOT learn the schematic, can NOT create the cables, but CAN use them. Buy them off a Goblin Engineer and equip them.

3) A noob with more gold then sense can buy the item, but not use it. If you DON'T have engineering of at least 265, you cannot equip the cables, and you cannot use them. You can resell them, but the fact is, you still didn't READ the item before you bought it.

Comment by Thottbot

An awesome idea on trying to have your buff and pet at the same time with the jumper cables. However, you can only use the cables when out of combat. Since, to my knowledge, a lock has no way of ending combat, the cables are not useful for battle rezzing your pet.

And since locks have a way of rezzing (soulstone), it makes the jumper cables kinda useless.

I would say it makes the most sense for either a rogue or hunter to go goblin engineering just for the chance to rez in the event of a wipe.

I would suggest telling your groups self rezzers not to use their talents until you have at least TRIED to rez with the cables. This way if it works your group has one more self rez in the bank for later in the instance. If it fails, someone can just self rez and the group is no worse off. The cool down for the cables is shorter than most self rez talents (30 minutes versus 40-60 minutes).

Comment by Thottbot

I have used this a long time

89 times it worked
111 failure

Comment by Thottbot

you can have 2 of them equiped at the same time and it uses both at the same time

Comment by Thottbot

From my experience, they seem to work better if you try to use them on people around your own level. Used em to rez our healer in many instances, but couldn't rez my guildies lvl 60 running me thru things :) hope this helps

Comment by Thottbot

Through experience I've found that the animation effect doesn't matter. It is as random as rezzing the person. If it shows it backfired, I've rezzed someone and I also haven't rezzed someone. If it shows no backfire charge I didn't rez them or I have rezzed them :/

Comment by Thottbot

Here are the facts on the Goblin Jumper Cables XL:

Required to Craft: 265 Goblin Engineering
Required to Use: 265 (Goblin-or-Gnomish) Engineering
Jumper Cables (Non-XL) Success Rate: 10%-25% (depending on set)
Jumper Cables XL Success Rate: 70-85% (depending on set)

It's rumored that a 300 Engineer will have a higher chance for them to work than a 265 Engineer would.
===Class Usefulness===
Hunters - 100%
Rogues - 100%
Druid - 75%
Mage - 60%
Warlock - 60%
Warrior - 50%
Shaman - 0%
Priest - 0%
Paladin - 0%

Hunters have Feign Death, Rogues have Vanish, adds another chance every 30 minutes for Druids, (Frost) Mages are good at staying alive, (some stupid) Warlocks tend to soulstone themself, warriors are goood at staying alive, and shaman/priest/paladin have a no-cooldown resurrection spell, so these are useless for them.

Hope this helps.

Comment by Thottbot

Releasing Spirit is a myth as far as these cables go. Someone who has released spirit has just as much of a chance to be able to resurrect as someone who is still in their body.

Comment by Thottbot

scince tbc mages can get invisiblity at high lvl this can be used to break aggro in instance and means these jumper cables are fantastic i often am able now to survive and get the main healer back up and get party back on way quick so i would say that previous post that put usefullness at 60% for mages is now 100% usefull

cheers

Comment by Allakhazam

From my experience (so far), these have 'blown up' on me once, but were not destroyed. I got back a bunch of materials from them being "ruined", but I still have them in my trinket slot (and they are still usable).

Comment by Allakhazam

I can't even begin to count the number of these I've sold...can't make them fast enough. So many more people go Gnome engineer and want a pair of these babies for obvious reasons.

Just one more reason why Goblin Engineers rock the Kasbah.

Comment by Allakhazam

as of 1.5, these no longer explode. they also increased the chance for both of the cables to work. i only used the normal ones, and before the patch it was maybe a 2% chance, now it looks to be around 10% or maybe even more. i would only think that the XL also received the chance upgrade, in any case im sure they have a higher chance to revive then the older ones. i don't think blizzards intention was for you to sink your materials and eat same cooldown just for a smaller chance.

Comment by Allakhazam

Works very much for me, atleast about 75% of the time.
And ive had them for over 10 months, used them over 120 times
very nice ones, def worth the money

Comment by Allakhazam

Whats the difference between these and normal cables? These have a better success rate?

Comment by Allakhazam

Was in DM with a hunter who had them. It worked two times in a row.

Comment by Allakhazam

Well I am dissapointed. Took me ages to get these babies and out of the 5 times ive used it so far, its worked 0.

So much for a higher success rate. I was told it would almost work everytime.

Comment by Allakhazam

yeah what is the diff between these and normal.is it like priests where the target rezes with more health, or is the cooldown short or what?

Comment by Allakhazam

They take more skill to use and require considerably more materials, i would think they work better.

Comment by Allakhazam

Is the Trinket BoP?

Comment by Allakhazam

I have used mine at least 15 times, with only one success... I think they are trash and am really dissapointed with them. Not worth the investment in my opinion.

Comment by Allakhazam

These definitely are better than normal cables -- for me they work more than they fail, implying a 60% rate, or maybe even 75%. I've used them around 20 times in total. Someone should post an exact figure on this.

And no they're not BoP, but since everyone picks gnomish engineering it might be hard to find a goblin engineer to make a pair.

Comment by Allakhazam

Maybe these work even after someone releases?

Comment by Allakhazam

Yes, I was wondering that too.

Comment by Allakhazam

My normal cables work 1 in 3 times. However it is vital the dead person does not do release spirit otherwise they never work.

Comment by Allakhazam

I believe with the normal ones they have a 30 min cooldown, so it's a 1/3 chance of it working. However with these you can try again. I think.

Comment by Allakhazam

Please read all the posts before u ask a question like this. If u look up it is said SEVERAL times that they have a better success rate.

Comment by Allakhazam

Just for your information.

Regular Cables are 25% chance.
XL ones are 50%.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have had these for 3 weeks now and not once have they worked. In my opinion the normal easy ones work much better.

And no, you cant use both of them, theyre on the same timer.

Edited, Thu Aug 11 23:46:33 2005

Comment by Allakhazam

so i have to have engineering to use?

Comment by OhQueso

The best thing I've seen done with these is; Both our pallys flubbed their DI on a wipe and DI'd me (A druid with a B-Rez down), and a Hunter. All we had up after a wipe was myself, and two hunters, all engineers. You are able to pass the jumper cables between each other since the cooldown on them is for the person, not the cables. so we were able to get a priest up by zapping her 3 times with the same cables

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Goblin Jumper Cables XL

Item Level 53

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Requires Engineering (265)
Use: Jumper Cables will sometimes be able to shock a dead player back to life. Cannot be used when in combat. (30 Min Cooldown)

Sell Price: 20

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