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Been thinking to do a playthrough on Enhanced Edition for the first time. Just a couple of quick questions with regards to NPCs that kinda aggravate me in the classic D:OS

1. How/When do NPCs refresh their inventory?
(Do they still refresh only after you level up?)

2. Do NPC vendors clear their inventory?
(I.e. sold my junk to the NPC and it will disappear from their inventory after refresh. I find it annoying how in the original game the junk i sold stays with the NPC and clutter up their inventory, makes it so hard to browse their stock. I avoid crafting like a plague lol since its so tedious)

3. Do items sold by NPC vendors scale with your level?
(This should probably be a yes just like in the original game)

4. If items sold by NPC vendors scale with level, does that mean they will stop selling low level spell/skill books at some point?
(Another issue that seriously bugged me, i've had a couple of times where i missed low level spell/skill books because i didn't have the gold to stock up on theose books or didn't regularly browse the dozens of NPC vendors for spell/skill books to buy)

Thanks for your answers!!!

Hey,

I'll try to answer your questions:

1. After level-up (i. e. when the trade requesting character has a higher level than the character who caused the last level related restock) and after every hour real time since the last restock (restock always requires trade/pickpocket request).

2. No. They never clear inventory. But there's a mod that clears trader inventories, beside a lot of other changes:
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=589467&nt=2&page=1

One of my mods offers two containers that remove their content when sold to NPCs, beside some other functions:
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=584472#Post584472

Maybe options for a second playthrough of EE. I personally always prefer the original experience for my first playthrough.

3. Yes.

4. I don't think so. I'm not 100% sure (would have to look into the files), but vendors in Cyseal should still sell low level skillbooks.

4. Skillbooks selection is mostly fixed with skill traders, does not change with level, with some two or three random additional skillbooks that might scale with level. Most, but not all skillbooks are sold by skill traders, some can only appear as the random additional ones, like the two Witchcraft summons.
There are two traders who also have a small random selection of all skillbooks, the magic trader in Silverglen and Charla in Cyseal. I think they can have the ones not sold by skill traders. But of course it's a random chance only.
All except 4 skillbooks can be crafted, the 4 missing ones can not because there are no scrolls for them: Netherswap (Air), Decaying Touch (Witchcraft), Mass Heal (Water) and Summon Poison Slug (Earth). Those I think are all in the fixed skillbook selection of skill traders.