IS it my imagination, or are the endgame treasures in this AP a lower level than most others? I see a few +3, mostly +2 late game drops. At these level I expect a few fours and fives in there. Am I not seeing something?
I fear it is so.
Problem is, the pcs are supposed to work within the boundaries of society, and therefore cannot make most of the loot from book 2. Between phantasms, skeletons and constructs or slaves of their enemies, there is hardly a moment when the pcs can fight many enemies at once that do carry interesting loots.
Moreover, many of the treasure they find in later parts are very strange objects that would probably better be destroyed, and than may require extra thought before they are sold.
To mitigate that, i would suggest to create a "safety net" for your party in the form of one of those secret association of Ustalav, which not only assist them into gathering infos, but also partially finances them, or makes the work behind the scenes to less the pc's loot while they are adventuring.
As a player, i'm at book 5 and i really hope our DM will give a few npcs way much equipment, cause right know we have at level 12 the money of a level 10 party (my estimates). While this may not seem a great gap, it's actually like 35% behind the money we are supposed to have (around 65k against the 108k from the gamemastery guide).
TY for verifying.