🚀 go-pugleaf

> 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?)
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"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

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