Esthers Brilliant Acquisitions mod removes items from later questrewards/loottables - Problems with getting some items (hat of fire acuity / potent robes)

[Raithwall]

I am at Rivington at the strange ox now, which should drop the hat of fire acuity according to pretty much all sources. Killing it it only ever drops a ring and two gems.
I had a similar problem on this playthrough with the potent robe. I just didnt receive it from alfira after saving the tieflings in act 2 (all of them), got all the other rewards - gold, scrolls everything. also had a save just before turning the quest in and retried multiple times - didnt get the item.
Does anyone else have this problems or know what the problem might be?
Thanks in advance

[Orion Invictus]

Are you using any mods?

[Raithwall]

i used Esther’s Brilliant Acquisitions for getting the ring of protection because i didnt turn in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ statue before freeing halsin and the drow leaders but uninstalled it after getting that ring (would have cost me hours of playing xP). And got the potent robe via a mod that spawned it in my inventory on loading the game (in act 3 when i realised I got screwed out of it)

Thinking about it - it might be a problem with that Esther’s Brilliant Acquisitions mod. I think that trader had both problematic items in the inventory. Sadly i cannt go back to her anymore and dont think she is in act 3 at all.
Got any ideas to workaround or fix it?

[Mike Garrison]

So you installed a mod that moved some items to a trader, and then didn't trade for them? Hmm.

[Raithwall]

Well of course not. The mod explicitely states that it is for missed or otherwise unavailable items. I got the missed item I wanted and uninstalled it.
Why would I want to trivialise my playthrough by getting act 2 or 3 items in act 1.
Also this my first time in more than a decade of gaming, that giving a trader specific items takes them away from other parts of the game.

[Kernest]

Originally posted by Raithwall:

Well of course not. The mod explicitely states that it is for missed or otherwise unavailable items. I got the missed item I wanted and uninstalled it.

See, mods don't necessarily work so that you can just install/uninstall them during a save. Some you may be able to install mid-way through a save, but uninstalling a mod doesn't necessarily undo the changes the mod made for that save.

A new save should be fine.

Originally posted by Raithwall:

Also this my first time in more than a decade of gaming, that giving a trader specific items takes them away from other parts of the game.

Except you didn't experience this as part of your "decade of gaming".

It's not a part of the game.

It's a part of the mod you installed.

I've received Potent Robes just fine in a recently-ish started save, so chances are it's your mod that screwed it up.

[Raithwall]

Pretty sure it was the mod. Still new for me that giving a trader items removes them from questrewards.
Even if not uninstalling the mod i couldnt get the items anymore because of it. Esther only seems to be a trader in act 1.

Guess it cannot really be fixed in my playthrough

Tldr: I would caution using that mod - if you dont plan to just cheat all those items early in the game.
Otherwise it screws you out of quite alot of endgame items.

[Mike Garrison]

You install mods at your own risk. Especially if you don't know exactly what the mods do.

[seeker1]

If the item is coded unique, and some are, and it spawns into a trader's inventory, it won't appear later on in the game.

BTW, another way to get her "inaccessible" items is the cheater's ring can spawn a box of them ... and then you get them for free. Again, one of my faves among the inaccessible items is the scarab of protection - shields you from necrotic magic.