You can buy Ring of Renewal after Giruvegan from Baknamy Merchant in Nechrohol of Nabudis,or You can poach Deadly Nightshade in Feywood (5% chance for Ring).Also the strongest weapons,armor will be not available to buy from shops,You can make them in baazar or get them with Diamond Armlet Equiped from Treasure Chests.If You need any more info pm me,I'll try to answer all Your Questions

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Zodiac spear from the Nechrol of Nabudis (if you havent opened the 4 chests your not to)
Excalibur from Giruvegan's great crystal
Ragnarok Ixion hunt

they are just a few , that you dont need to go looting for

Tournesol is great , if you want to spend the time getting all the items

i remember i got zodiac spear at lvl 25ish

i have completed all the hunts but behemoth king and the final hunt and i opened the chests and you can still get zodiak spear if you open them its just hard as hell...im mainly looking for better armour and new bow and gun and one handed weps..is there a list somewhere to look for looting?

Armour - Maximilian From Baknamy Merchant or Rare Drop From Elvoret (Necrochol of Nabudis)
Grand Armour - Chain Rare Monster Helvinek in Necrochol of Nabudis (Lure him to zone exit,kill him,and Quickly leave before the exp/ap will show,do that until highest chain,then pickup the drop )

Artemis Bow (2nd best) sell 2x Moondust (Monograph drop from Mu's in Feywood,can take a while to get them ),1x Sylphi Halcyon (steal or Drop from Sylphi Entite in Ozmone Plains) 2x Great Serpent's Fang (Monograph drop from Viper in Mosphoran Highwaste)
Saggitarius Bow ( Best Bow ) Sell 4x Sagitarrius Gem (steal/drop fromm Foobar in Nabreus Deadlands),3x Beastlord Horn ( Monograph Drop from Humbabas Mosphoran Highwaste),3x Moon ring (monograph Drop Ash Wyrm mosphoran Highwaste/Grweat Crystal)

Best Gun is easy to get - Fomalhaut - Chest in the Lhusu Mines( in the place where You Fought Antlion Hunt,no Diamond Armlet needed)

Imo One Handed Weapons Suck,You can get shield - that's nice,but in the end most monsters ignore evade,Get 2h Swords,They are gfg, Tournesol,Excalibur or even Ultima Blade , Masamune Katana rocks too,not the highest dmg,but very good chance to do combos (with Genji Gloves even better ),And Zodiac Spear is overrated imo,great dmg,but chance to combo very low.


and to the poster above You,Zodiac spear can be obtained even at lv 1 i got it in my low lv challenge

lol i hate the low level challenge...Ashe10 on youtube did a killed yiazmat in a llg it took him 12 hours

there are actually 2 ways to get the zodiac spear one is not open
the chest across from old dalan
the chest in that palace
the chest in the room your recover your equipment from
the chest in the phon coast

OR

there is a chest in the henne mines on the way to the esper zodiark that if you have the diamond armlet equiped u have a 10% chance to get the zodiac spear but the chest only spawns like 1 in like 50 times or something like that the point is its a rare spawn chest so theoretically u can get as many zodiac spears as you want but you would be spending 100x more time on that then you would killing yaizmat

either way zodiac spear = best 2hand weapon in the game

the best bow is very easy to get bazaar item
the best 1 hand sword is easy to get as well bazaar item
the tournesol is kind of annoying to get as it takes some time and patience especially well in my case with the hells-gate flames
( spent like 3 hours in the damn fewwood )
i wouldnt even bother with the wyrmhero blade u gotta kill omega mark 12 and get his omega badge
then you have to kill yaizmat and get the badge from clan centrino
then you have to beat the fishing nebra river sidequest ( too annoying IMO )
best gun i dont remember where to get as i didnt use guns
there are some other weapons in the bazaar worth getting but i cant think of them offhand

i dont know if the other guy answered all of the questions you may have but i can also help you more VIA pm i also have the strategy guide so i can look up and bazaar item you might want

or any other questions you may have

the easiest way to get some super eq is to go to the necrohol of nabudis. maximillian armorand a helmet. its in a secret area that you cant see on the map.