Where can I buy high quality crafting material?

[Fatemoe]

My character reached mid-late game LV20
I'm starting to feel merchant material quality become capped around 70~80
Is it worth investing more crafting skill if I do not plan to add mercantile skill?
Will merchant sell better loots as LV increase or main quest progress?

[Qiox]

Once you work for one of the Oligarchs in Core City it will unlock a vendor that will often have high quality ingredients. If you did Abram's full questline in Junkyard, and then follow talking to him in Core City so that he directs you to Jake Quicksilver's set of quests in Core City, that will lead to a high end vendor at another location.

It has been quite some time since I have played without the 105 Mercantile skill that unlocks all extra inventories from vendors. For example, when got access to my Core City Oligarch vendor and first looked at his inventory he had many components in the 145 to 155 quality range and continually has offered more in that range.

The merchant's individual inventories do not improve as you level. They are what they are. Just certain vendors are "high level vendors". And then on top of that, some can be talked into giving access to a greater quantity of high quality gear via a mercantile check.

Oh and the vendors inside The Institute of Tchort are all high end.

[happybjorn]

Leonie (Foundry) also has a chance for high end materials once you finish a major quest there.

Marty (upper underrail) has items in the 80-130 range (iirc) and is available as soon as you complete the drill parts quest. His inventory is random though.

As far as I can tell more mercantile won't give you access to better items exactly, outside of a few exceptions like guaranteed blueprints or high tier grenades. What it will do is add more items (with the mercantile checks) and hence more chances at better crafting ingredients.

[Qiox]

The wording of the wiki is:

"Special merchandise includes more and better quality components and equipment."

[Karina]

Got any advice were to find high qualtiy parts for a blob gun? I have been playing with 70 quality cryo blob gun the entire game (level 18 now) and all i seen was level 110 incindiary collector at Rail Crossing (i dont want incinidary blob gun).

[happybjorn]

Originally posted by Qiox:

The wording of the wiki is:

"Special merchandise includes more and better quality components and equipment."

I'm sure I could have worded things better. As a generalization or two (or three) independent clauses that is fine.

If you take it to mean the merchant will have more items and that those items will be of higher quality that should be fairly easy to disprove (all it takes is one regular inventory item being of higher quality than special inventory of the same type. This doesn't have to be the highest quality item of the type either).

For chem pistol parts try Marty.

[King Fossil]

Originally posted by happybjorn:

As far as I can tell more mercantile won't give you access to better items exactly, outside of a few exceptions like guaranteed blueprints or high tier grenades. What it will do is add more items (with the mercantile checks) and hence more chances at better crafting ingredients.

Mercantile unlocks better items too. With high mercantile some shops can sell parts that are over 160 quality. I've never seen them sell anything that good when I don't have it.

[Qiox]

Originally posted by happybjorn:

Originally posted by Qiox:

The wording of the wiki is:

"Special merchandise includes more and better quality components and equipment."

I'm sure I could have worded things better. As a generalization or two (or three) independent clauses that is fine.

If you take it to mean the merchant will have more items and that those items will be of higher quality that should be fairly easy to disprove (all it takes is one regular inventory item being of higher quality than special inventory of the same type. This doesn't have to be the highest quality item of the type either).

For chem pistol parts try Marty.

No that would not disprove it. The fact that higher quality items become available does not mean they are guaranteed to be there for every item type every time you look.