My first playthrough I fought the gnolls and saved the traders. I never had their chest and let them take it themselves. In turn they gave me the pass phrase to get in. The first time when arriving and trading he only showed me normal stuff and said I needed to talk to Zarys which I did. After that he was more than willing to trade the good stuff.
My next playthrough I let the gnolls kill the traders and I took the chest but didn't open it. Actually I think I tried and failed the lockpick attempt. Then I had to talk my way in to the Zhent hideout (which I'll admit took some savescumming to roll the numbers needed multiple times, otherwise I was always dead on the spot). But once in, I gave the unopened chest to Zarys and she declared us a friend of the Zhents. But the trader still would not offer to trade anything but normal crap. I think that's probably a bug.
I just had this happen to me as well. It wasnt like that before this most recent patch. Unfortunately that Zhent trader is also the one you need to obtain the studded leather armor +1 from. I went through the dialog with Zarys with every character, and she always said the trader would now show me the good stuff, but when I went down to him it was the same old stuff from before. So Id go back up and repeat the same dialog with Zarys and try again. No success. It seems to be stuck in some kind of feedback loop and isnt registering that speaking with Zarys unlocks the traders full inventory.
And I really experimented with it trying to get it to unlock because I had been able to before, so I knew something wasnt right.
Has anyone been able to access the traders full inventory since the most recent patch dropped? It could be Im doing something wrong, but then how did I do it before?
