Talk:Expensive camera

So this is pretty much just a wand of make blind?

An expensive camera, flashed at a monster, will make monsters flee from you. This effect is different from, say, a thrown potion of blindness, which makes monsters blind but does not make them flee from you. The fleeing effect is ridiculously useful against really tough monsters such as the Riders, because there's no other item in the game that can make them flee. Another point worth noting is that a camera can be recharged infinitely many times, whereas a wand can only be charged at most 7 times ... most players don't care about this, but for Tourists with the PYEC, that's a big difference (and isn't it convenient that Tourists start with an expensive camera? hmmm...) Finally, the camera has a few weird properties that wands don't have, for example the fact that it deals no damage when wielded as a weapon ... which is something that only pacifists would care about, but there you have it. Djao 05:19, 9 December 2006 (UTC)