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First, when you examine armor and it says max dexterity bonus none does that mean there is no max or there is no bonus allowed?

Second no one will buy my traps as they all say this merchant will not buy stolen goods, I've read all kinds of advice saying to try to recover all traps as you can make good money for some of the higher level ones so I know they have to be saleable and I'm guessing to more than one or two select 'fences' so is this some kind of bug, has anyone else experienced this?

Third on the subject of xp penalty as I understand it you get one for free as long as you follow your class right so if would a halfling rogue/ranger/wizard 10/9/1 take a hit if wizard was the second class taken and rogue ranger were leveled on alternating level-ups always equal or one level apart?

Thanks in advance to all!

To the first, a value will be given if there is a max dex bonus you can have whilst wearing that item.

I can't help with the second.

For the third, xp penalty is based on all your classes are within one of each other, with the exception of your races favoured class. Humans and half-elves have it slightly easier as their favoured class is their highest class. In the instance of your example, the halfling would have an xp penalty since rogue is its favoured class, and ranger and wizard are more than one apart.

[QUOTE=joewigwam]Second no one will buy my traps as they all say this merchant will not buy stolen goods, I've read all kinds of advice saying to try to recover all traps as you can make good money for some of the higher level ones so I know they have to be saleable and I'm guessing to more than one or two select 'fences' so is this some kind of bug, has anyone else experienced this?[/QUOTE]

It's not a bug, as far as I know. As of a certain patch, traps count as looted/stolen, and the honest merchants won't buy them. There are a few vendors who'll buy the traps - but they don't really come across as vendors. They're described as "Shady Character" and it's not easy to find them. Someone said there's one in every town - I know of one in Luskan, on the eastern side of the map, near the entrance to the Host Tower, near one of the sewer entrances, up a set of stairs. He's wearing Rogue clothing, I think. Also, I think Elaith Grau...howeveryouspellit, the elf in Port Llast, buys them. Your best bet are the Shady Characters, though.

there is a shady character in port llast too near the boats in the northwest corner. in general the shady characters tend to sell the better rogue equipment in my opinion.

The bartender in the Moonstone Mask also sells and buys traps plus a variety of rogue equipment.
In Sou Torias in the halfling caravan lso deals in rogue items.

Be also careful with your speech choices when you talk to the shady characters, as you can scare them off. I did that in my first time in the game with the shady one next to the docks in Port Llast; when he told me that I "looked like a person who knows how to live in the shadows," I replied "I take offense at that" and then he replied something I can't remember right now and vanished... never to be seen again.

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Third on the subject of xp penalty as I understand it you get one for free as long as you follow your class right so if would a halfling rogue/ranger/wizard 10/9/1 take a hit if wizard was the second class taken and rogue ranger were leveled on alternating level-ups always equal or one level apart?

Thanks in advance to all![/QUOTE]

No that build will definitely result in an experience penalty. As a halfling your rogue class is favored so you just ignore that: it will never matter where you throw the rogue levels in. The thing you need to be concerned with is that your ranger and wizard levels are no more than 1 level appart at all times (not your rogue and ranger levels).

So a couple examples:

1) If you went Rogue 10, then took your first level wizard, then proceeded to level your ranger, as soon as you take ranger 3 (Rogue10/Wiz1/Ranger3) you will incur an experience penalty until you take another wizard level.

2) If you went wizard1 then took 5 rogue levels you are OK. Then you take ranger1 and ranger 2 for wizard1/rogue5/ranger2 - still OK. Then for some reason you want a 6th level of rogue for (wiz1/rogue6/ranger2) - still no experience pentalty. Now as soon as you take that ranger 3 you get an experience penalty since the non favored classes (ranger and wizard) are two levels apart.

The only way I can see to do that build without an experience pentalty is to be an elf or a gnome and alternate the ranger-rogue levels.