I think he should condense shops together for gear, have one person selling all of the various gear items (rune, runes, robed, bolts, etc) into one NPC but still have separate instances for the shops, just accessible through different dialog options.
I think there are too many NPCs at the home area in general. Too many quest NPCs, too many shop NPCs.
Agree with the tabs changes. Don't really see the point filling up other cities because the current goal is to make it seem like the game is not empty.
