There will be good gear in New City, however it starts to appear after you've been a while in the game already. Important to notice is that it doesn't depend on how much you've explored the game world, but rather on how much time has passed. So after many battles, when you've rest many times, the stock in New City shops begins to upgrade to better.
Theoretically, you could rest, for the full 8 hours, something like 40-50 times in a row (if you manage to survive it without being hit by random encounters, which is very unlikely), however I wouldn't advise that. NPC's in the game make their efforts to get possession of the Map pieces which otherwise would be lying in their origin places which are covered by walkthroughs, so you'd have to kill those NPC's, steal the maps from them or trade (10.000 gold each). Also NPC's battle each other, so you might end up with only 4-5 NPC's survived from something like 15 (or more) which are in-game from the start on. Not a good thing.
Just explore the game normally and don't save on resting, and don't forget to return to New City once in a while (you'll have to from time to time, anyway), you'll have better things to buy yet.
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