Equipment upgrades | Trips to the City Thief Guide

UPGRADE NAME

USE/EFFECT

Razor

This gadget is required to obtain a dozen-or-so various collectibles in the game world (paintings in the Court of Montonessi category). I recommend that you buy it immediately, thanks to which you will not have to return to those of the items that you failed to collect.

Warm Vest

The vest slightly increases your health bar. It is not too expensive an upgrade although, if you play a cautious game, Garrett's life will be threatened only several times throughout the campaign (additionally, these are not induced by Garrett himself) .

Ovengut Tonic Water

This is one of the most expensive upgrades (it is almost 10 thousand gold pieces at the Master level!), which increases the health bar and the Focus bar. Personally, I recommend that you invest your gold into cheaper and more useful upgrades, first.

Lockpick Quality

This is a two-level upgrade, which increases the effectiveness of the lockpicks. It is immensely useful, because Garrett needs to pick locks quickly, at some points, before he is detected. Try to unlock both levels pretty early into the game.

Wrench

This gadget is VERY USEFUL and you use it to open venting shafts, as well as to remove plaques (one of the collectible categories). Try to buy it immediately.

Moss Quiver

The role of the quiver is to suppress the broadhead and serrated-edge arrows, after being fired. Due to its low purchase price, you can buy it straight away although, even without this one, you do not need to worry that the arrows you shoot, will alarm the enemy automatically.

Basso's Bond

The bond decrease the prices on all the basic resources by 25%, and therefore it would be a good idea to unlock this one early into the game. This will allow you to replenish your resources at lower cost.

Blackjack Damage

This is a three-level upgrade, which increases the damage that you deal with the club. If you want to complete the game, while operating from shadows for the whole time, you will find no use for this upgrade, especially that you can eliminate opponents, quietly, in melee.

Leather Oil

After being used on the boots, it decreases the noise that you make, while walking over noise-producing, surfaces, e.g. water or broken glass. These are quite expensive but, if you have enough gold on you, it is a good idea to buy that, because you will be running into the "loud traps", mentioned above, nearly in each mission.

Embersage Oil

This one decreases damage that you take from fire and the traps that you spring. You can easily ignore that, assuming that you are not going to complete the missions in haste. Each one of the blazing areas can be disarmed.

Blackwing Feathers

The function of the feathers is to increase damage that you deal with broadhead and serrated-edge arrows. You do not need it because, if you operate from shadows, you will be attacking nobody. What is even more, even if you decide to eliminate the monsters that appear here and there, throughout the game world, you will use a different type of arrows, anyway.

Quiver Capacity

This is a two-level upgrade, which increases your arrow capacity. Try to unlock, at least, the first level, so you can bring more broadhead, water and rope arrows along.

Bow Shot Strength

This is a three-level upgrade and it increases damage dealt by arrows . If you are trying to beat the game without raising any alarms, you may find this upgrade useful only while fighting monsters, although you can also walk around them, without any problems.

Leather Padding

This upgrade is very useful, because it increases the height that you can safely jump off. Since Garrett often moves on rooftops and ledges high above, you will appreciate this upgrade, nearly, immediately after you buy it (preferably early into the game), after you find out that you do not need to look around for ropes, ladders and other means of dismounting elevated places.

Lucky Coin

Thanks to the coin, you can increase the level of available focus. You can buy it because, even at the highest difficulty level, the coin is very cheap.

Wirecutter

This gadget is VERY USEFUL and you use it to sabotage boxes that power various traps. It is recommended that you purchase this upgrade immediately, especially that it is impossible to walk around some of the traps and, as a result, you may miss some collectibles and secret areas.

Troy's Satchel

The satchel allows you to carry more food and poppies around. I recommend against buying this one, especially that it is not too cheap.

Spectral Aspect

This is one of the most expensive upgrades (28000 gold pieces at the Master level!), which decreases, considerably, the risk of being spotted by the enemies. It is very useful if you are playing t the highest difficulty level and/or you enabled additional modifiers. This, however, does not change the fact that it's price ids ridiculous so, start saving up gold only after you obtain all of the more important upgrades.

Crosswind Medallion

The Medallion decreases the risk of taking damage from projectiles fired by the enemies. I recommend that, if you decide to buy it, you obtain it only towards the end of the campaign mode, because it will make things easier, during the encounter with one of the bosses.

Grinning Salt

Salt increases the amount of health points that you replenish, after you eat food. This is not too helpful because, if you play carefully, you will be losing no health (the only exception are the smoke-filled areas, but you should have sufficiently much supplies on you, by that time).

Bow Balancing

This is a two-level upgrade, which decreases the time that you need to draw the string of the bow. This is not a priority because, if you operate from shadows, you will always have plenty time to [re[are your shot.

Leather Hardening

This is a two-level upgrade and it decreases damage that you take. If you want to beat the game, while remaining in shadows, you will find no use for this one.

Worldslayer

This is one of the most expensive upgrades (28000 gold pieces at the Master level!), which expands your health, and focus, bars considerably. I recommend against this one, because at the price of this upgrade, you can afford buying lots of other, more useful ones.

Doctor's Orders

A document that decreases the price of poppies, offered by merchants, by 25%. This is a useless upgrade, because you can often find poppies while completing missions or exploring the city.