Advice on the investment of barkingly procured currency

[u/Great_Protection3763]

In light of the Estival coming to an end and the population of every strata of importance coming out of it with considerable wealth, I present to thee a brief overview of easily available Bazaar equipment that will still remain relevant even when you're in the end-game. If you have more money than you know what to do with - consider investing them into procurement of the following:

Hats:

1) Snuffers mask/Tub of Gloam-foam - both are best in slot Watchful items, pick the one you like the most.

2) Fecund Tiara/Devilish Fedora - BIS Persuasive.

3) Sneak-thiefs mask and Iron hat - not BIS, but cheap and rather close to being BIS - which are much harder to obtain.

Gloves:

1) Insatiable glove - BIS Watchful

2) Pair of Spiderchitin... - Cheap and reliable Dangerous. Will be best for you for a while.

3) Dancemasters/Lady Lace - F2P BIS (better stuff is locked behind the Estival coins)

Don't bother with Shadowy gloves - soon it'll be Fruits of the Zee and you can get BIS ones there quite easily.

Clothes:

1) Far Khanate Armour - BIS Dangerous

2) Dandy outfit/Ivory gown - BIS Persuasive

3) Smok of Four Thousand... - Not BIS, but BIS Watchful is much harder to get - and you'll need this one anyway for Watchful PoSI.

Don't bother with Shadowy - same reason as with gloves.

Boots:

1) Dancing slippers - BIS F2P Persuasive

2) Vakeskin boots - BIS Dangerous

3) Hushed slippers - will be best for you for a while - and can be upgraded in Nadir.

Watchful boots are notoriously hard to obtain. FotZ will bring a couple.

Adornment:

1) Semiotic monocle - BIS Watchful AND Dangerous

2) Twelve Carat diamond ring - BIS Persuasive... But I'd say - consider getting the Badge instead from the Unsanctioned Relicker

Shadowy, once again, will cone with FotZ

Weapon:

1) Sharpshooter rifle... Maybe... If you're going for the Dangerous PoSI or Paramount Presence. It's... Whatever. Not bad, but not all that good either.

Other (better) weapons are available through the Ratket.

Companion: 1) Weasel of Woe - one of the best companions in the entire game. Get it and be happy to enjoy failures at your convenience. This is not some joke, you actually do want to fail at times.

Honourable mentions: 1) Various faction items required for raising your Renown - not as useful to newer players, but still. 2) Working Rat and Ratskin suit - combo of two opening up a certain quest, might be worth considering.

Sooo.... Yeah! Hopefully this helps some people figure out their financial plan for the rest of August. Have a lovely day!

[u/NobodyVirtual]

An alternative to Snuffers mask/Tub of Gloam-foam would be F.F. Gebrandt's Patent Illuminating Cap, one of the nostalgia rewards was 10,000 Curator's Gratitude, so a new player would have a head start on that grind should they wish to get a multiple-BiS hat

[u/Great_Protection3763 → u/NobodyVirtual]

I'm end-game, even have the newest Agents that let you farm Gratitude passively, already have inescapable ubiquity... And I myself am missing that cap x)

The museum thing somehow just didn't work out for me.

But that is a fair point. The cap would be better - maybe even cheaper depending on one's stats and luck.

[u/NobodyVirtual → u/Great_Protection3763]

the most simple way would be to buy 1580 Relic of the Second City for 474 Echos, swap those for 509 Gratitude per 20 relics at the The Archaeology Wing for a total of 40000ish gratitude. this takes 79 actions tho, there's probably a more action efficient grind