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You can normally find out about an item by looking it up. If you read the comments, then you will find several opinions about how well the cables work. Here is the link and one of the more detailed comments:

http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=7148



Some of the older comments are more pessimistic, so Blizzard may have buffed the success rate along with eliminating the cables' explosive tendencies. Please also note that Goblin Engineering is not needed, just Engineering 165. This means you could experiment with your Shammy before swapping professions on the hunter.

This is supersticous(SP) BS, Not directed at reednut... at the poster that posted that.

My luck with standard jumpercables rolls arround 55-60% success rate, the rate is the same with or without release(the poster just had a hard time finding a body once so they made some crap up)I have had this rate since DAY ONE of having cables, thats december of 04.

As a note,even gnomish engineers can make the cables, dont be fooled by the name(there is a gnomish named item that dose not require a spec to make either[Gnomish Cloaking Device]). The snag comes at the Jumper Cables - XL, those can be made by only goblin spec engineers. The cables -XL have a better success rate, for me it hangs arround 75%. lastly remember both kinds are BoE, so you dont have to make them... in days gone by the cables would break, and you had to remake them, but that is a thing of the past so even getting the scorll for them is silly(if you see it cheap pick it up but dont break the bank getting it). Enjoy and wait till you find the new guy who says "Hunters can Rez?"

if you are just about to choose and have a lot of .... time on your hands, there is a new hottness.

Since the changes in LW and Engineering, it is possible to get the items from both trees of the craft. Level up Eng to 200, pick gnomish and build all the BoP items (the key is the death ray, but battle chicken never hurt either. then drop engineering, and relevel it, picking Goblin this time. This lets you have all the gnomish stuff that is made only once, and the goblin consumables(that you still have to have the spec to make more).Of corse this plan only works if you havent dumped a lot of cash in to rare plans(like high end scopes like the sniper scope plans[average 25 gold on my server]).

Not nearly as bad as you think, Bullets and bombs, focus on the stuff with the low mat cost, if you look at the skilllist(here on alla) you will see that at 2 times in the progression to about 240, there are times that you can get skill adds off of making goods(in advance) stuff like copper tubes(bad example) and then when you are done, you can use the copper tubes to level something else(actualy a few pages back somebody requested a guide and calbar posted one, worth looking for) you will find that if you are not looking to use any stuff(and most liley you wont be on the early stuff), but instead just level the craft that it is quite affordable.

Lastly remember that even the low level bombs provide a stun, I find little as amusing as when i use a Rough Copper Bomb to stun a level 60 caster in mid cast... not long but it is kind of nice.

Enjoy,

PS.
One example of prime levein is Copper Modulator and the Target Dummy, you can make 20 Copper Modulator at eng 65, that can take you to eng 85 then use the 20 Copper Modulator to make 20 Target Dummy(can be used to farm Fused Wireings... big money), that can take you to 105.... look for this type of deal as you level and you will be shocked how eazy the first 200 points come.