well I guess my hard drive blowing up a few times was a good thing...I mean I had a few chances to play the game all over again so I could get to the wastelands...about 3 times actually and in the process I found out about some new quests and stuff...
of course, the forum really helped for the larian armour and the patch and some other stuff like the dragon armour... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />

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