No higher level armor for sale in MP after Light Elven

[Miltiades]

Sorry if this is the wrong subsection of the forums for posting this, but I have noticed that city vendors in the multiplayer game appear to sell nothing higher beyond Light Elven Armor. I obtained a full set of Light Elven Armor a level prior to when I could actually wear it, but I'm level 23 now and the only thing they sell is the Light Elven and lower level stuff (with the odd Closed Helmet sometimes).

Am I correct in assuming that the vendors in the city stop selling higher level gear at a certain point and the only way to obtain better sets is in a fully developed village with an Ore Mine and upgraded Forge(s) and 4-5 shops? Or am I just imagining things and they will start showing up once I reach the minimum level required to use the higher level sets and weapons?

My village vendors have already provided me with the occassional piece of Mercenary and even Knight armor and weaponry requiring a level 31 character to use even though I'm only level 23 at the moment; but so far the city/adventure vendors don't even have Skirmish armor pieces for sale which I can wear already). It just seems to stop once I see armor of 18-22 (with the occassional 25 Closed Helmet. And weapons seem to be locked at 20-25.

So the short version of my story is: will better armor become available at the city vendors once I get to a higher level or will I need to check my village vendors for them?


Thanks!!

[Jierdan]

From what I've seen, better equipment is in random chests or from village mode.

[geniusprime]

From what I have experienced, the only way to get better armor and weapons is through the village shops but you need to have an ore mine and forge upgraded.

[Miltiades]

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion. As soon as my village was fully buit and set up with an upgraded forge and ore mine, I started seeing quite a number of items that required me to level up (and several sets of cool samurai armor heh heh)

I mainly found it a little odd that the regular city shops simply stop though. It seems rather limited in forcing dependancy on a few vendors in your village that might offer you the piece of armor you need; provided the randomized item generator gives you the proper items to complete the set...

From my experimentation with the village it seems that in order to increase your amount (and thus chances) of items, you'll need 1.5 forges, the ore mine and 3.5 shops (the .5 one to destroy/rebuild in order for the temporary supervalue of selling stuff) to get a decent selection of goods while still getting a little profit of a few thousand auras per 6 minutes.

In the city nowadays I only run inbetween the two magic vendors to buy gems and nothing else.

Ah well, maybe an expansion could straighten things out eventually