Yeah I dont pickpocket at all, or I have not up til now. I may need to start robbing people I would just ignore normally, mostly because of the reasons Stabbey listed, it is a waste to steal an apple and 67 gold pieces and some pocket lint, or to fail and get in a fight over nothing worth stealing.
I am kind of facing a similar situation regarding skill/statbooks, she does restock somewhere between levels I just am not sure what the trigger or time envelope on it is,
at first I thought it was at 50% over the next lvl experience amount, then I thought well it must be that and a certain number of visits to her since I usually have to visit her a couple of times I think it was like 8 or ten times between level 11 and 12 before she restocked, wish I new exactly what triggers her restock, maybe it is just time passed in the game,I do not have a clue but eventually it always happens.
I think this particular imminent level up (to level 13) I may not be able to afford both sets of books, in which case it will be the stat book and it will go to the fighter, he is maxed on 2handed anyway level 4 in MaA, the only thing he needs skill points for is for armor specialization, body building and willpower. The mage is in pretty good shape ass well since skills are more important for her than stats and she usually gets the skillbook anyway, she is already level 5 crafting level 3 blacksmith, and level 3 in all the spell schools except lvl 2 in Geo and Witchcraft. But at this oint she really has no good spells she can learn until 16th level anyway so no real need to work on getting more spells or increasing the level in those schools, heck I may forgo even getting her to level 4 in Geo or Witchcraft this time around.
Wow loot this playthrough really is paltry, I am opening a lot of chests and finding items that are not only non-magical but not worth much in gold either. I am in Hiberheim and at the elemental forge entrance, that encounter should push me to lvl 13, so I am in Homestead trying to get the teller of secrets to restock before I level up to 13, I have visited her 3 times and so far not yet but as I said I think I had to leave and revist her like 8 or ten times before she restocked last time before a level up.
The fight with Braccus this time went better than it had ever gone before heck killing the twins with a battering ram and a whirlwind which also really chopped Braccus down to size and caused him to die in the 2nd or 3rd round, I think being really close to him made the difference (since I got an oppurtunity attack on him before he even hit me at all hey I think that is the first time anybody went to attack me and I wacked em first in an oppurtunity attack!) and oath of desecration helped a lot, his version of the Firefly spell where he conjures Lava under your party is pretty lethal and seems to work better than the parties version of that spell. I also usually cast rain ASAP in that fight, but did not get around to it this time I dont think. I have had it where I got one or both of my mains killed during the course of the whole fight and Wolgraff is resurrecting one of them in the middle of a battle, just to have the other get killed while running interference. I also do not like to reload and I dont usually savescum for better loot. I have not had an end of game fail where everyone died in quite a while.
