My warrior/rogue solos generally stopped buying grenades after ostagar, and potions/ingredients after the circle tower. Though SnS was buying both all game long.
You can even skip grenades from ostagar if you're happy to cheese gazarath and the ogre.
My warrior/rogue solos generally stopped buying grenades after ostagar, and potions/ingredients after the circle tower. Though SnS was buying both all game long.
You can even skip grenades from ostagar if you're happy to cheese gazarath and the ogre.
I bought the ones in Ostagar twice, then Lothering and the Circle Tower. It isn't like the grenades themselves are a constant money drain, but the consumables I mentioned drain early money when it is most annoying. Specifically for grenades, the total expenditure should have been something like 6.2 gold for pre-made grenades. I don't think the grenades are restocked at any merchant anyway so it isn't like you could buy them forever anyway. I bought the fire bomb recipe relatively late game since I had a lot of money then and a bunch of fire crystals.
They came in pretty handy for a couple rooms in the Circle Tower that can't really be cheesed with stealth if you have Wynne in tow (since enemies go directly at her and so she starts tanking), or rooms that are flat out annoying like the two Desire Demon encounters. One fire bomb can also gib nearly all the darkspawn in the encounter where you get Dog, so I like to have one there.
The only thing I consistently crafted through this game was Deathroot Extract and to an extent Swift Salves (starting at level 12 / Redclife). The former because they only costs flasks essentially and stuns are nice, and the latter because I couldn't save all the militia without them and they help some large target encounters.
Salves / Balms probably ended up running at least 10g early for premade. Of course by late game I end up with a whole lot of them and when I more or less don't need them, but they were helpful early for things like Kitty. Needed greater warmth for the encounter with the stupid rages and their friends in the library part of the tower. I bought a lot of lesser spirit balms, but it turned out they weren't all that helpful since the lesser didn't really do much for crushing prison.
Rock Salve Recipe was 1.32g, and probably isn't worth it unless you always want to prebuff against higher tier enemies.
Have the habit of buying most lesser and regular health pots I see early, even if I try not to use them if I can avoid it. This was probably only something like 2g though. Did craft a lot of lesser pots later when needed for Restocking the Guild. Gazarath was really the only encounter where I guzzled pots, the dragons needed some though.
My end of Circle save showed I had spent 30g at that point. Total spent at Redclife was ~275g. Had spent 54g on tomes by the time I got Lifegiver before finishing Urn, so that was a lot to spend that was somewhat questionable. Total spent then was ~400g.
edit: Since I know refunds from Slim are double counted essentially (since they are subtracted from spent gold tally after he gives them back), I wonder if other refunds get double counted.
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