Quote Originally Posted by Ibi View Post
It is. You must turn in the Shire Sword and Shire Shield together, along with an Illuminati Deepest Gobdip, to receive an Augmented Shire Sword and an Augmented Shire Shield.
No they mean when you buy it - even though I dont really see why its a problem to spend 300 on the shield directly instead of buying 3 tokens and then buying the shield.

The reason not to have the tokens exchange for stones again is simple: It would allow you to circumvent the 2.000 cap. I agree that its just another type of currency for no reason though - we could just buy the weapons directly with 1.000 (or 700 for paladin) scripture, but I would imagine it has something to do with how the game handles those vendors (as in: trading items in might be easier than trading an item - the stone - and a curreny in). There is no reason to exchange tokens for scripture though - except cheesing the cap, but they could remove it then. If you bought tokens that you dont need... to bad, pay closer attention.