Oh no i did get those quests just 3 shops worth of rng to complete them since shop at aliron + 2 villages at one point just churn the tools into rep points and keep what's needed, didn't really see many tools that are useful lot of fishing rod, hunting knives and pick axes, pick axes not worth it for me to get until after the mayor quest is done, hunting knives and fishing rods are a waste.
Upgrades are secondary to me, depending how good of a start i get it depends what i buy, if i get a goid start with a lot of axes and workers and couple of dancers I'll end up just buying weapons and skipping upgrades all together.
I will see if i can get a good run to show you what i mean. But quests i got were assignments, slave requests, kill ogre twice and jungle which if I'd have had week 2 i would have went for and probably beat because of actually having classes at that point.
My advice just take zepyhra to the elven capital and let her negotiate still avoids a slave and gets some interesting story out of it.
Never made tools i just check daily for them, I'd rather spend the time producing material and gaining exp than take a few hours travel to upgrade just to travel back when u can make money and just buy it if it shows up.
Bit sad nec skill for undead is still wip. Kind of would like to see more races or at least solo mode fixed so i can't sway things in my favour a bit.
It's tempting to do a social class only run it would be slow but i wouldn't need to leave the mansion.
High wit and at least 1 thief class for chests stick it on a mage and 99% of the time you'll get the chest open