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In article <331CE7...@penning.lanl.gov>,
Russell Glasser  <rgla...@penning.lanl.gov> wrote:
>> That's my point. If Griswold couldn't sell anything worth having, why
>> have him sell anything at all? How about we make Griswold sell stuff
>> until a player reaches Hell, then make him stop selling. He can keep
>> buying though. Now, I'm being sarcastic. But that's how I feel.
>> 
>
>	Don't quote me on this, but I suspect that Griswold's offerings 
>actually do get better as your level improves and you play more 
>difficult zones.  I bought a Master's Sword from him the other day, 
>which was quite a bit better than the sword I'd been using.  (Since I 
>don't cheat or accept duplicated items, I've chosen to do without the 
>now dirt-cheap King's Sword of Haste... so this is really a valuable 
>find.)
>	I know for a fact that Adria only sells elixirs after you've 
>been roughing it in at least normal/hell, or low levels of nightmare... 
>so why shouldn't it be true of Griswold?  I'm only level 31, so who 
>knows what he'll be offering when I turn 40?
>	Have to agree about random shrines... never touch the stuff.  
>The good ones have nothing to offer me that I can't get with elixirs, 
>books, and cold hard ca$h... while the bad ones (lowering my mana 
>points) are permanent and unrecoverable.  It seems AWFULLY unfair that 
>Blizzard would intentionally ruin your character this way without giving 
>fair warning about it.  (Who figured out what the shrines did before 
>downloading a list off the web?)
>-- 
>"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
>progress depends on the unreasonable man."
>                                -- George Bernard Shaw
>
>Russell can be heckled at
>        http://sdcc8.ucsd.edu/~rglasser


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