What SixOfSpades said, except that with the tactics mod, enabling the toughest encounters gives you the lich right out of the gate. So you can easily be facing liches by the time you are 10th level...
And you don't necessarily have to finish the slave quest to get the cheaper goods from the Copper Coronet -- all you have to do is accomplish one of the results of freeing the slaves...
As for bonus merchants, do a search on this site for Weimer or WeiDu and you will probably get a link to his site where you can get all kinds of cool stuff, including the bonus merchants. Those may be bundled under ease of use. I don't recall exactly...
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