Along these same lines, what is the chance of such an item appearing in a pool? In my first dive into the eastern pool on Level 9, I was rewarded with an Assassin's Robe, a glorious item if there ever was one. However, it took me another fifteen or so visits to that pool to find another one. I desperately want another, as my trio of Assassins will be a unstoppable melee machine at that point.

And to weigh in on the class-changing debate that has been going on over the last few days, is there a compelling reason to leave a character as a Druid once they have learned all spells and accumulated enough spell points? All three of my druids have 400+ SP and all spells, and I sincerely hope that would be enough to see me through to Murkon. I have already changed one Druid into a Knight, in order to jack up his HP, and to give me a backup melee fighter in case one my elite Assassins is paralyzed during a battle. I'm debating whether I should do the same for my other two Druids.

Sorry, I've rambled on. Enough for now.


> > At one point in Kaliti, I noticed that there was a Sorcerer's Hood for sale in the Shop. I couldn't afford it at the time, but I was wondering if there's anything I can do to encourage such items to come up for sale in the future. Half a million gold is a mere pittance in exchange for such a rare and valuable item.
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> Each shop item has a 1 in 500 chance of falling across the full range of items instead of just the range normally carried by the shop. Of course, even if this 1 in 500 chance succeeds, the item picked still might happen to fall in the usual range, so you will probably only get a special for every 1000 shop items. With 35 items in a shop with freshly rotated inventory, you'll probably get a special item every 28 shop inventories or so. It's possible, but rare, to get more than one at once.
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> (The different shops have different normal ranges, but they average out to covering about the weaker half of the items in the game.)