Eventually, as you advance through the game, that weird skeleton merchant who hangs out in a stone jacuzzi yes, that's who you buy stuff from in this game, it's weird and brilliant will start offering you more than the basic package of Blood Vials, Quicksilver Bullets, Molotov Cocktails and Pebbles (which seem useless, but are actually dead good for luring enemies away from large groups if you hurl one at them, allowing you to pick them off one by one). After the first boss has been taken down the skeleton will expand his stock, and those changes will continue throughout your gameplay. Just know this: no matter how great the temptation to spend those hard-earned tens of thousands of Blood Echoes on some sweet armour, for the most case, there isn't much point. For one thing, much like Blood and Bullets, you'll stumble across plenty of outfit upgrades in the wild new headwear, gear, gloves, and boots. Like the ones the skeleton sells, they don't offer a whole lot more stat upgrades than what you start with, so at a certain point settle on one and don't bother spending any more. Unless you wanna look cool with the Crowfeather garb, which is understandable.
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