Your initial post mentions you have the Adventurer's Vault as well. I'm curious on the layout of that one since I'm very interested in purchasing it. I don't have much information on it and don't know what the older D&D versions did with theirs, so I apologize if some of these questions are silly. Please answer as many of these questions as you can tolerate doing so..thanks in advance!
Is it literally made up entirely of items? (Be it armor, weapons, magic items, etc)
Or is that only the primary part of the 230pg book and has other semi-related things.
Are there rituals?
Do they seem to cover all the level progression in every key item slot? The PHB for example has no low level rings if memory serves.
Does it seem like a complete resource? By that I mean, is it safe to say that with that book, you would probably never see yourself needing/wanting to buy books for more items to run in future campaigns?
Given that there are probably thousands of items in there...is it layed out in a manor that you can find what you're looking for? The PHB is layed out nicely IMO but it is probably 1/20th the size.
Does it include weapons/items already in the PHB? (I'd both hate this because it takes up space, and like this because it would be a consolidated resource)
Does it have any items seemingly geared towards the Swordmage? (much like how items seem to gear towards other classes)
Is there anything that you find particularly exciting about the book? Anything you are disappointed about? Or is it exactly what you'd expect...just tons of item options.