Chapter 5 Vendors Are Disappointing

[WarpedAcorn]

I have cleared out all but 1 companion quest and am about to head off towards the end of the game. But I have been supremely disappointed that the Vendors in Chapter are no different than they were in Chapter 3. I am sitting on 2.5 Million GP and nothing fun to spend it on.

I was at least hoping an Endgame vendor would appear, but even the Skeletal Merchant is missing (who I thought would SURELY be the endgame loot vendor).

Was anyone else in this boat? How much cash did you end up with at the end of the game?

[Nono]

Same, I think my longspear +4 has made more than 100 hours out of 250 h on my pure BeastRider / 2H Legend playthrough. Still unable to find a +5 at the moment in Act 5.

[WarpedAcorn]

The Dragonsword I bought back in Chapter 2 basically served me until I switched to Scimitars in Chapter 5. I was REALLY expecting there to be more options once that point rolled around. And yeah, like you my MH Scimitar is still +4 (but its the one that heals on a crit so that is amazing).

[JustSmile]

Skelly does get some new stuff in act V - a couple metamagic rods and a circlet of mental perfection +6 I remember for sure - but Drezen vendors have nothing new. I made almost 2 mil in Enigma, another mil in Ineluctable Prison, and I resorted to wasting cash on stacks of diamonds.

[WarpedAcorn]

Originally posted by JustSmile:

Skelly does get some new stuff in act V - a couple metamagic rods and a circlet of mental perfection +6 I remember for sure - but Drezen vendors have nothing new. I made almost 2 mil in Enigma, another mil in Ineluctable Prison, and I resorted to wasting cash on stacks of diamonds.

Maybe I am supremely unlucky, because I have not seen the Skeleton show up in Chapter 5 at all.

[WarpedAcorn]

Originally posted by Nono:

I found a +5 scimitar (heals party on crit) in Act 4 with the bridge puzzles in Upper City.

I think you mean Faith Bearer. That's the one I am using now. Its only a +4, but its pretty amazing and does a lot of healing. I do wish also this game tracked how much Healing and Damage each character is doing.

[Nono]

You're right, FB is +4 only.

[Viceroy Günther von Lichler]

theres a general lack of items (and locations) really, seemed to be far more in Kingmaker
like you can chose the wrong weapon to specialize in in the early levels because for instance: "double bladed swords?! badass!" and then i dont think there is a single good one in the entire game lol
and you cant respec cause it breaks many mythic paths

i was on 6 million gold i think when i finished my first run and hadnt bought any new items since like chapter 3 i think

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by WarpedAcorn:

I have cleared out all but 1 companion quest and am about to head off towards the end of the game. But I have been supremely disappointed that the Vendors in Chapter are no different than they were in Chapter 3. I am sitting on 2.5 Million GP and nothing fun to spend it on.

I was at least hoping an Endgame vendor would appear, but even the Skeletal Merchant is missing (who I thought would SURELY be the endgame loot vendor).

Was anyone else in this boat? How much cash did you end up with at the end of the game?

The skeletal vendor definitely exists and he had some solid chapter 5 loot (at least 1 bow i remember being exceptional). I did notice that when i was just wasting time traveling waiting for the skeletal guy that after i asked him to bring exotic goods he simply stopped showing up at all.

I used the strat of just traveling back and forth for all other good types before exotic and it worked reasonably fast but i wasted like 2 weeks finding him after telling him to bring exotic goods and he never showed up again.

[AELeonson]

There's a single double bladed sword iirc. I think at the slave markets? It's still an awful weapon choice.

[[Heretic]Rivga]

Originally posted by WarpedAcorn:

Originally posted by Nono:

I found a +5 scimitar (heals party on crit) in Act 4 with the bridge puzzles in Upper City.

I think you mean Faith Bearer. That's the one I am using now. Its only a +4, but its pretty amazing and does a lot of healing. I do wish also this game tracked how much Healing and Damage each character is doing.

+5 for tricksters;)

[Insanity_184]

Originally posted by Nono:

Same, I think my longspear +4 has made more than 100 hours out of 250 h on my pure BeastRider / 2H Legend playthrough. Still unable to find a +5 at the moment in Act 5.

There’s a place called laughing caverens south of iz. A vanguard in there has an absolutely insane +5 long spear

[Nono]

Originally posted by Insanity_184:

Originally posted by Nono:

Same, I think my longspear +4 has made more than 100 hours out of 250 h on my pure BeastRider / 2H Legend playthrough. Still unable to find a +5 at the moment in Act 5.

There’s a place called laughing caverens south of iz. A vanguard in there has an absolutely insane +5 long spear

Thank you!

[djinnxy]

There's a number of enemies that drop scimitars and with trixter arcana 3 you can get them at +4-6 with multiple effects on them. It doesn't take much save scumming to get the effects you want out of em, Same goes with a number of different weapons.

Also that long spear is entirely worth building around. A reach trip cavalier maybe?