So I wanted to collect lots of armor pieces and styles, and I plan to do it by visiting and revisiting high-grade shops. What is a good city in which to do this? Daggerfall, Sentinel, and Wayrest have good shops, but only one or two each. The best city I've seen so far is Aldingbury in Menevia (two incense armorers and one incense weaponsmith, all fairly close together). But where is the BEST?! :trophy:

You can poke around the http://www.jceason.dircon.co.uk/dagger/dfgaz.htmif you like. Some people have submitted town information and shopping goodness.

My preferred method of collecting armor and weapons is to take it from the local guard. I go to some backwater country, hack up a few civvies, and proceed to slaughter their guards until I am filled to the wagon limit with goodies

The Odd Blade in the city of Daggerfall is a very good weapon shop(my personal favorite ussually has the best selection of weapons for your level), it's in the merchant ring north most shop. Also Sentinel has some good little weapon shops in the south west corner, single rooms with only one shelf of inventroy though.

(Racking my brain trying to figure out just what you mean by "incense armorer" & "-weaponsmith..")

Dwynnen (in Dwynnen) has 7 armourers and 1 weaponsmith plus at least 1 of every other type of shop. Not sure how many are incense quality though. I haven't bought any armour and weapons yet, just used the best of what I got from dungeons etc.

The shops where the blurb when you enter mentions incense, the top-tier ones (for buying best stuff anyway, to sell you'd usually go to the worst ones, odd isn't it ?).

Dwynnen has an incense quality weaponsmith (The Baron's Blacksmith) with many shelves (it's identical to Daggerfall's The Odd Blades). It also has an incense quality armourer, but you hardly need that because you're more likely to find high quality armour in the weaponsmith shop.

Yeah, I do like the Odd Blades because it has a lot of shelves. Like I said though, it's just one shop. The favorite I mentioned, Aldingbury in Menevia, has three "incense" shops. Two of which are armorers, so I assume they have a better chance of carrying armor pieces.


Thanks! I'm looking through it right now, and I need to visit the capital of Antiphyllos. I didn't know about slaughtering guards... that could be lulzy. Isn't it the case that if you kill enough guards, your legal reputation loops around to Revered?

Gotcha.. Easily missed by me as my message pop-ups like that disappear before I can read most of them, so I tend to ignore them now..

Or, if you have moral qualms, you can just sleep in the woods for 24 hours at a time, and probably get into fights with a lot of humans.

That, too. Camping outside in cemeteries is also pretty good. You can even reloot the crypt a few times for the treasure. I've been a self-proclaimed protector of cemeteries and bane of graverobbers for many a character

I admit I rarely go on guard slaughtering sprees with my more serious characters. Sometimes a character is just there for powergaming

I've never seen that happen, though I never let them hit me so my legal reputation has never been affected one way or another.