Should i buy or just find items?

[ViniAleatorios]

Hello, it's my first time playing BG3, I'm 10 hours in and I finally arrived at the druids camp, I come across the merchants and I start asking myself "Should I buy items (like armor and weapons) or will I find better ones in the next hour ?" I have this doubt because in those 10 hours I almost didn't found items to equip in my party and I don't know if it's just like that at the beginning or if i really need to buy...

[Hex:ual Tension]

Finesse weapons, boots and gloves with +1 or an enchantment of some kind are quite commonly found, if you look even a little bit for treasure. Necklaces with decent spell options are also somewhat common.

All of the above can be bought in shops, with slightly worse or better effects depending on your builds (most of the time), but you might want to specifically spend it on +1 armour, magical shields or weapons like bows/crossbows etc as all of the particularly good ones you can find *can* be missed depending on how quests play out or are located towards the end of the act.

Rings I've found tend to have weak-mid tier effects, so buy ones that suit your playstyle and mix and match them frequently.

If you pick up everything that isn't nailed down and sell it you can honestly fund a small army and buy up anything you see tbh. So always stock up on potions and use them regularly.

[Coth]

Merchants generally have a couple of amazing items that are worth buying. I usually do

[LegendFusion]

well, you can get magic items very fast. In the intro theres basically an option to get a big fiery 2 handed sword. Before you awake on the beach...

[Myth Alric]

I wouldn't worry too much and just buy the items when you see them, you get a pretty good amount of money and the magic items are cheap. You will probably replace some of the stuff but who knows how long it will take.

[DarkLurkerWario]

I'm VERY early in the forest area, and all I've had to do is sell whatever is mildly valuable I find and I'm able to fund potions/quest related expenses. Since I'm looting so much usually there are a few items that are powerful enough for me to not need buying equipment. Yet.

[Shells]

Armors are a good thing to buy, it seems. I rarely find any magical ones except for robes, and paying ~270 gold for a +1 magical light armor is worth it in my point of view.

Magical weapons are suffiently dropped/found; but RNG might differ in your game.

[katzenkrimis]

Originally posted by ViniAleatorios:

Should I buy items, like armor and weapons, or will I find better ones in the next hour?

My god, no.

In no game should you be doing that. In this game especially, because unless you loot every square inch of the map, and sell every item, like I do, money is tight.

You can tell by how broke the vendors are.

As long as you are winning battles, you will find everything that you need.

You don't need to loot every last vase and flower pot, but you need to be efficient.

Save your money for health potions or revival scrolls.

[Mr Fred]

Yes

[Wiegs]

Both, hoard everything that looks like it might be usefull, buy what is needed that your collection doesn't provide. And you have the camp's chest to keep it all safe so don't worry about the weight in your inventory.

[zpc]

I tend to buy gloves / helmets and weapons just for their effects - to have them when I need them. You know - all those situational "give spell X" or "ignore / bend gamerule Y" items like e.g. boots which let you dash on full speed no matter the surface. Or rings that give you the light cantrip.

Also - armors. As their distribution / drop rate might not fit every party. (mostly find awesome stuff for mages but have no mage in my party and found e.g. no single heavy armor during most of act 1)

[Nebaddonn]

Best items from enemies or chests, some items you can craft\assemble by your own hands.)

[guppy]

Originally posted by katzenkrimis:

You don't need to loot every last vase and flower pot, but you need to be efficient.

Blasphemy!
Unless it's nailed down it's mine, and If I can pry it loose it wasn't nailed down.

Though honestly the game is making me regret my hording, selling stuff gets tiresome really, really fast

[fox5s]

Depends on the item. The first merchant you can really find sells some gloves that basically give Deflect Arrows. Throwing those to my Cleric prevented a TON of Concentration checks and smoothed the path. Even if I were to find another set, that's just more Deflect Arrows. Why wouldn't I want that?