Fast and Easy Way to get Items for Shop Quests
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClH7FACYaOc
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There are two ways to get items for shop quests: From treasure chests or from certain characters. Luckily there is a thief assignment that has several of those characters (A Clash of Interests). When you play that mission you have to defeat them with fists. After it's over you can loot the bodies for the items. When you replay the mission it will get out of the memory when you beat it, so you will have to loot the bodies during the mission (a good method for knocking them out is to poison then punch them). First just knockout the ones that go after you. Then escape to become anonymous (you can't loot during open conflict). Then loot the ones you knocked out and poison punch the remaining ones to loot them. Keep replaying the mission until you get enough of the items to complete the shop quests. The items you get are random, but some you get more than others.
Loved the cloned weapons, how do you do that?
I wish I'd thought of this instead of running around getting all the chests, I'll definately use this if I want to complete shop quests again. I tried once with the thief mission where u have to kill the guys on horseback (if u chase them for long nough they stop in a town and loads of thiefs come, but their if u get out of open conflict the mission ends so it doesn't really work.
Well done again for figuring this out 
Finally someone asks about the cloned heavy weapons! That is what the video is all about, after all. Okay, buy a heavy weapon from a smith shop. Use the special attack to throw it. You now have no main weapon. Go to the shop again to reequip the weapon (I thought it was obvious when I threw the weapon at the end). 
Oh, and you can loot bodies if your exposed but not in open conflict. So just throw a smoke bomb to give you some time to loot. 
Yeah, I get that. What are they though. (told you it'd make me seem stupid)
Do you mean a thief quest in the main story?
Yeah, I get that. What are they though. (told you it'd make me seem stupid)Do you mean a thief quest in the main story?
no they're secondary memories. (i think) but not mandatory. They won't appear on your map until you go to the thief headquarters and talk to la volpe.
EDIT: I gave this a go, got the same items like 5 times in a row, nothing i was looking for tbh, i gave up after that lol. Poison-punch is brilliant though
This is going to make me sound really stupid but whereabouts are these missions?
This is going to make me sound really stupid but whereabouts are these missions?
its a thief assignment
This is extremely helpful as I've been struggling to complete any pfthe shop quests. Thanks!
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Yeah, I get that. What are they though. (told you it'd make me seem stupid)
Do you mean a thief quest in the main story?
The thief missions are optional and can be done after you renovate the thieves headquarters (sequence 3?). They can be found in the lower middle of Rome I think. The symbol is the same as the thief icon when you hire them. 
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