Shops are good now!?

[petercordia]

Usually money is good for 1 or 2 items of long term value, plus consumables, and it just generally piles up purposeless in the late game.

In my current game I have bought 2 scrolls of acquirement, 4 manuals for useful skills, and 2 consumables.
There’s items in the shop that I want to buy, but can’t afford, and are worth planning around. Like 2 manuals of throwing & stealth each, 1 manual of dodging, 1 more scroll of acquirement, and 2 pieces of good (for me) artefact jewellery.

I only hope this won’t be seen as an “error” that needs to be “fixed”.

[aaron]

Perhaps you just got lucky, yet I feel like there are more early shops.

In my current game after finishing the mines I use all the shops for identification. In the end only acquirement and experience are unknown and I no longer need identify.

I am disappointed to have only 522 gold left when I enter the bazaar on Shoals:2.

Welcome to Cemoa's Assorted Antiques! What would you like to do?
 a -   11 gold   a fuming pink potion

So yes, maybe shops can be very good now.