Buying diagrams/formulas and more from Merchants

[secondfall]

Buying diagrams/formulas and more from Merchants

I was having trouble finding the answer to this anywhere else so hopefully you guys can help me.

I'm just curious, if I don't buy all of the available diagrams/formulas/anything else from merchants in Chapter 1.. will the merchants in the following chapters still sell all of the same items that I haven't bought yet? Or are there some items that are unique to specific merchants from specific chapters than can be missed?

If anyone could help me out I'd appreciate it! Thanks!

 

[Kindo.824]

Or are there some items that are unique to specific merchants from specific chapters than can be missed?

This one, I'm afraid. Some items and diagrams will not show up again later on in the game, while some others will.

 

[dragonbird]

There's probably more than one way to approach this, but my view would be
- for general stuff, like potions formulae and bomb/trap/rune/enhancement crafting diagrams, buy them if you have the cash and you think they might be useful. You may not use everything, but most of these are fairly cheap and it would expand your game to try them out. In most cases, you'll get most benefit if you can make use of them early in the game rather than later.
- for armour and weapons, both as diagrams and actual items, buy only if a) your immediate reaction is "Drool, I want that", b ) it offers a significant advantage over what you already have and c ) if it's crafted, you either have the components already or you have reasonable expectations of getting them quickly. (So if you need 5 silver ore and already have 4, it's OK, but if it needs some body-part from a monster you've never heard of, probably not a good idea).

If you need to craft something for a quest, the diagram will be available in the chapter concerned. However, be careful when you make potions. The game will sometimes try to use rare components in these, and they are often NOT available again later in the game.

 

[Garrison72]

Maybe the best solution is to buy all the potion recipes and be selective with crafting. you can't do both, especially if you remove the over powered DLC items like I've done, in which case the very tight economy prevents you from splurging...unless you want to spend hours fist fighting and gambling.

Be very careful in what you buy, and be thinking about whether or not it will suit your character build.

 

[saintmagician]

I disagree. In my second playthrough I ended up with an almost abundance of money.

The herbalists gloves help, but the alchemy feat for extra ingrediants would do just as well (I didn't have the feat, but someone having the feat would get just as much ingrediants as I did with the gloves).

If you are rushing through the chapter, then you may end up short on money. But if you run around, explore every corner of the map, and do every quest, then as long as you:
- Pick up all the herbs that you encounter on the way
- Kill all the monsters that you encounter AND pick up everything
- Loot every lootable thing

You'll have plenty of money. You just need to sell stuff that you pick up. A lot of the monsters drops sell for quite a bit. You should have for example, heaps of nekker parts. If you look each part up on the wiki, you'll notice that some crafting components are never needed (or only uesful for one or two things). Also take note of which alchemy types you have lots of and which are scarce. For the ones that you have lots of, obviously sell the more expensive items in that category.

That should give you plenty of money. If you don't play with potions, even better, just pick up ingrediants everywhere you can and sell them all.

You will have plenty of money.