Stumped by cost of Broom of Flying

[Mok]

I'm trying to breakout the cost of the Broom of Flying and it isn't making sense according to the formulas. Having searched on the forums a bit people say that it follows it, but I'm not seeing it.

Overland Flight (spell level 5) x caster level (9th) x 1800 or 2000.

It either comes out to 81,000 gp or 90,000 gp depending on how you look at activation, and that's before you add in the additional power of it flying on its own, that it's slotless, etc.

How is 17,000 gp being determined beyond eyeballing legacy costs?

[sunbeam]

You know if you can take activating it every 5 minutes, it actually works better using the level 3 fly.

3 (spell level) x 5 (caster level) x 1800 or 2000.

A max of 30,000 gp.

I say it works better because the third level fly has a greater flight speed than overland flight.

Price still doesn't make sense.

[coyote6]

It's one use per day, though they let you split up the 9 hours of flying that one use gives you.

[Cheapy]

The formulas are just the backup option for pricing a magic item. They often lie. It's better to think in terms of "at what level is this acceptable?"

[Mok]

coyote6 wrote:

It's one use per day, though they let you split up the 9 hours of flying that one use gives you.

Ah, so "charges per day" is 1 so it's divided by 5 gets you to 16,200 gp or 18,000 gp depending on how you unravel the activation. With eye squinting we arrive at 17,000 gp. Thanks!

[blackbloodtroll]

You are using the pricing guidelines, not the be all, end all, for pricing magic items.

I repeat, they are guidelines.

[Mok]

blackbloodtroll wrote:

You are using the pricing guidelines, not the be all, end all, for pricing magic items.

I repeat, they are guidelines.

Absolutely, that's why I needed to get a clarification on how the guidelines were being used with the Broom of Flying. It's cleared up and it's all good now!