Does the Disarm feat bring you much loot?

NguyenGiaThai · Wed, 28th Sep '11, 4:50pm

[Original Campaign only] [second hardest difficulty)

IN OC do Disarm feat bring you much loot (disarmed weapons)? Because I get so few loots that my purse is pretty much hurting: around the time of Eyegouger/Old Owl Well I have only 10k after so-so shopping. Money came mostly from selling the occasional piece of loot and rewards.

My craftsman is pretty much sitting tight because if I go buy all the needed materials I will go flat broke in no time.

And from what I can glean it seem people were swimming in cash.... how come?

If Disarm work I will give it a chance.

Disclaimer: we are talking about Disarm the feat, not disarm the action that we use to recover traps. Just to be clear.

DominionSeraph · Thu, 6th Oct '11, 12:04pm

Never tried disarm, so I can't say if it gives anything other than would normally drop. I'm guessing any magical weapons would drop with the mob so disarm wouldn't give anything extra but vanilla weapons if it did give something.

What do you mean, "Selling the occasional piece of loot." Aren't you picking up every piece of loot to later sell it?

Here's some basic money tips:

Sand (the merchant) gives the best sell prices. By FAR. ALWAYS clean out his entire gold stash. So don't sell pre-Neverwinter. Save every item for Sand. Especially since the merchants pre-Neverwinter are the worst in the game. (It's ok to sell enough to pick up Full Plate for Khelgar from the innkeeper. The difference will only be like ~200 gold and that armor will last him for a LONG time. That armor is pretty much the best purchase you'll make for your party in the entire game.)

I believe the Shadow Thief merchant in your keep gives the best deals after Sand. After emptying Sand of money save as much loot as you can until you get access to him.

Each merchant has a cap per item -- $5k, 10k, 15k, or 20k. If you have an item to sell and it's showing the cap, always save it for a merchant with a higher cap to sell it. (That item you sell to an Act 1 merchant for 10k might really be worth 20k! Regardless of anything it's worth more than 10k.)
Also, there are only two merchants who will buy for 20k (keep courtyard). Don't waste their gold stash by selling junk to them -- only sell items that are worth over 15k. (If you suck up all their gold selling junk then you find yourself wanting to sell 20k gold items -- whoops, you can't! You'd have to go to a 15k merchant, losing 5k on what the item's worth.)

NguyenGiaThai · Thu, 6th Oct '11, 5:08pm

Ah well. The loots were not much until we can get to Old Owl Well and its environ. I totally forgot about Sands. The loot around there (since finding emisarry to cleaning clanhold) get 20k from Samyr in Old Owl Well. Fortunately I have saves, prolly will reload to sell to Sand.

'Not much' as in fighting a group of 10 orcs net you maybe one or twice piece of normal weapons. Unless it's scripted loots. If Disarm so much as make every target drop its weapons it will add up immensely. But that's why I think Disarm was nerfed in game or we would have to do shopping after every dungeon.

Rawgrim · Thu, 6th Oct '11, 11:27pm

So you get more loot from disarming peoples weapons, rather than just picking up the weapons after you kill enemy?

NguyenGiaThai · Fri, 7th Oct '11, 10:21am

I thought disarmed make each disarmed enemy drop their weapon on the ground (or our inventory) therefore if you disarm ten orcs you have 10 weapons. But apparently that doesnt seem to be the case. Or at least that's what I gathered on various forums.

It seem NWN2 make disarmed enemy just lost their weapons and fight with their fist.

It's not very clear to me which is why I make these threads.

Wed, 28th Sep '11, 4:50pm	#1
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Thu, 6th Oct '11, 12:04pm	#2
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Thu, 6th Oct '11, 5:08pm	#3
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Thu, 6th Oct '11, 11:27pm	#4
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Fri, 7th Oct '11, 10:21am	#5
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