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If you have two triple crossbows, ammo for them may become a problem. I recall how fast my own team went through bolts (arrows?) with those things. Whoosh!
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Yeah. What I did was start buying Hunter Quarrels from Anna as soon as I reached Arnika, and squirrel them away in Antone's treasure chest. In the meantime, I used the much-more-plentiful plain Quarrels while the shooters' skills were coming up to the point where they could actually hit something. By the time I had Triple-Shot crossbows and was facing higher-level enemies, I had over a thousand Hunter Quarrels in stock. Likewise with Ferro's Lightning Bolts: they're the best crossbow ammo in the game, so buy them every time he has them.
I did the same thing with Musket Balls from Burz and Kunar; I left the Monastery with something like 300 Musket Balls, and picked up several hundred more from Kunar in various visits. Although it turned out that Musket/Blunderbuss ammo wasn't really a problem: the characters that can use those weapons are also primary melee types, so they typically only used their ranged weapons a couple of times per combat. In contrast, a high-level Ranger in the back row can go through 50+ bolts in the course of a not-all-that-long engagement.
Of course, you don't want to try to *carry* several hundred each of bolts, arrows, and balls; use the T'Rang teleport to get back to Arnika, or stash the spares on the floor in the teleporter room.