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"HOW DOES THE STORE WORK? WHEN I BUY SOMETHING, DO I ALWAYS HAVE IT? WHAT DOES THE “14/14” MEAN WHEN I BUY A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT?"

When your hero is at the Fortress, you can buy items by clicking upon a vacant slot in your hero’s inventory. You must have discovered the needed blueprint for the item you wish to purchase, and in the case of equipment, upgraded the arsenal building.

All kinds of items may be purchased, once relevant the blueprint is discovered upon defeating a Monster Champion, Mini-Boss or Boss - they also drop from blue chests. Blueprints drop less frequently than their associated items. The fortress can create equipment (multiple copies), passive items, artifacts, and consumables. In the Ultimate version, you may also exchange gold and crystals freely and without penalty, by clicking at the crystal at the top - 20,000 gold is 100 crystals - they become the same resource. The Ultimate mode is highly recommended for both additional content and functionality (saving in dungeons being a key one), but beyond that, unlike many games, a late game player will accumulate substantial resources without having to “pay to play” or use exploits; and some of the top players on the leaderboard fall into this category (getting to floor 2000 plus of the crypt and beating level 1400 bosses being entirely possible for a free-to-play gamer, using the ultimate version, for example). Progression in Pocket Rogues is about skill and tenacity - you may however purchase gold/gems if you wish, to hypercharge your progress - particularly in the early game - perhaps chiefly by investing into the Fortress, which substantially accelerates progress.

Passive items that are bought (or found) remain in the inventory permanently, until you die or put them in the chest. These are NOT sold automatically when you return to the fortress, unlike all other stuff in your inventory. Passives with the same effect do NOT stack with each other - having two soul eaters is no better than one - and the soul eater and soul mirror do not stack with each other, so if you have both, use the more powerful soul eater!

You have to enter the fortress with no other passive items in your inventory to buy more crosses of life. You will generally store them in the player’s chest in the Camp, and kill the king of bones or grim paladin directly and repeatedly, buying a cross of life each time you return to the fortress. You can use backup heroes as extra “passive item storage”, if you want, but it’s not necessary.

You may buy weapons and armor as well; and you are actually buying multiple copies of the gear, when your fortress arsenal creates a piece of equipment for you - you can’t buy just one, it’s a package deal! The number of copies you have remaining is the first number (for example , it says 12/19: this mean the fortress will make 12 more for you). When you enter the fortress without a weapon of piece of armor in that slot (for example after death), it will automatically make you another, and the number left will tick down by one. Note that this equipment cannot be USED to improve other equipment, but you can use non-fortress gear and ingots to improve your fortress purchased gear.

Beware of buying potions and serums of oblivion, these are an endgame tool and get 100 crystals more expensive each time you buy them!! The serum caps out at 1750 crystals, while the potion stops increasing at 1800. Don’t worry about them until your hero is already starting to get very powerful (will have all 4 stats in the 30s, with all 9 skills maxed, maxed equipment and fortress etc).

Potions of experience are even “more endgame”, these only make sense when you are already DONE with the oblivion strategy - or choose to purchase crystals with real money to hypercharge your progress and have already maxed your fortress (not at all necessary however - you can earn skill points at a reasonable rate by playing the game, particularly in the obsidian tower and at deep floor levels). Experience potions do not increase in cost.

The chests are only available through the camp. The quickest way to access it, when you’re strong enough, is to fight the king of bones or grim paladin directly. (Don’t do forgotten keeper - it’s bugged and may push you back into “normal” mode; then you have to finish it and directly fight the grim paladin to break it)