From: KingButz | #161
Just curious, what does level have to do with it? Random fights?
Yeah, pretty much. There are a few cases in the story where enemies will have better equips than are available to you but most of the time they're only one checkpoint ahead of you, so if you do steal you'll gain a whopping 10 HP for two fights before you can buy it on your own. Random battles scale with your level though, so if you overlevel they'll have better equips than you can buy, and then you can steal them.
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