After much finagling, catalog shops will once again provide you items commensurate in value to what you paid. Also, items that previously had special properties dependent on material (most notably: ironwood shields) will once again have those properties.
After an entirely DIFFERENT SET of finagling, this change will also affect items stolen from said shops. This will increase the difficulty of those items whose values increase, but they will, of course, teach better and sell for more.
This is currently live in Prime and Plat.
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