Guild Wars 2

So the new Trading Post interface has a column named Prices in the Sell Items section. These prices correspond to the top Buy order for that item. I would like to propose a way to multi-select items, perhaps with a checkbox, and then click a button to sell all of those items instantly for the price listed. I know this will save a lot of time for me while leveling and aside from the post throttling I don’t see how it would be game breaking.

Yes please!

I think the user story goes something like this:

As a player
I want to sell instantly all useless items in my backpack at the Trading Post
so that I free up backpack space on field and get more gold than selling those items at vendor.

The old TP UI required 2 click per item stack to sell instantly. It was no fun to do that. But it was necessary to keep playing my favorite game mode: WvW.

The new TP UI came out untested. And players complained. Rightfully so. It took a lot more effort to sell items: 5 clicks per item stack and ankward navigation between inventory and the sell dialog.

We have seen several bug fixes to the new TP UI. Now the clicks are down to 3 per item stack. The bad navigation is still in place.

And it is not fun. The bright green “you have successfully sold an item” just does not cut it for me. I don’t get exited for selling a crafting component or a low level item for few copper profit.

The OPs suggestion for multi-selecting items and then selling the all instantly would reduce the work significantly. It would still not be fun, of course.

We could go further. The root problem is the loot tables and the gold consumption in WvW. How about fix those and I would never have to visit the TP UI again?

I’m imagining dozens upon dozens of “Sell all button sold my exotic / precursor / legendary / grandmother” posts on the forums and tickets to support. Doesn’t sound like a good idea.

Electro.4173:

I’m imagining dozens upon dozens of “Sell all button sold my exotic / precursor / legendary / grandmother” posts on the forums and tickets to support. Doesn’t sound like a good idea.

Hear, hear.

One of the shortcomings of the new TP UI is that it only displays very few items at a time. There is a lot of scrolling up and down.

There is a risk of selling wrong items when you do a multi-select and have to scroll the selected items off the view.

Or worse: if you do multi-select blindly (click item and then shift-click another item down the list). Especially since the new TP UI is not automatically sorting items in any order.

Some measures against wrong selection would be welcome.

Yes – we need an easier bulk-item sales mechanic.

Currently, there are a lot of clicks, and a slo-o-o-ow UI response to each click
(On a PC that runs GW2 at 12fps, the UI pauses become very, very, very long)

We need it to be thought through, to avoid the issues already raised above.

Plus these issues:
– Not every item sells instantly.
– If emptying packs of loot items is too fast & easy, folk will do it mid-dungeon
(At which point, why bother saving up for all those 20-slot bags? Why bother unlocking the backpack slot for (currently) 50gp/400gems)
– most importantly, the dull, slow, tedious chore of emptying back packs is not fun. It is laborious work.
We play games to have fun. Not to do laborious, unpaid, make-work.

My proposal:
- a new type of loot container. Only items in this container can be bulk-sold instantly.

I’m going to call it the “Swag Bag”. This way you can get 4 slot swag boxes/bags/packs, 6 slot, 8 slot, 12, slot, 15, 18, and 20. Just like invisible bags, equipment boxes, oiled packs, etc.

Any weapon/armour that is unusable by your profession will preferentially go into this container.

Any armour/weapon that is below your current equipment will preferentially go into this container.

Only the things that you choose to put in it will sell instantly.

(This avoids the “Aaaaargh!!!!! you sold my black lion ticket!!!” complaints. Or a lot of them.

And yes – using an invisible pack for your Black Lion ticket is a good idea, and would prevent also stop your Black Lion ticket from being sold unintentionally)

Swag bags do not work in Dungeons. You can still sell items to the Black Lion individually while you are in the dungeon. But you can’t sell a whole swag bag worth in one fell swoop, while you are in a dungeon. You have to leave the dungeon to “sell all instantly”. Maybe the UI should tell you this: “Sell All Instantly – not available in this map”

In the inventory, a multi-click select of items. A rt-click sub-menu for “move to the Swag Bag”.

Swag Bag items which have a minimum current price which is higher than the current instant-sell price will be highlighted in amber, so you know you’re wasting a Swag Bag slot.

Swag Bag items which have a current gap between lowest seller and highest buyer of more than, say, 1.5sp to 2.5sp, would glow silver, to let you know you’re wasting a Swag Bag slot.

Ideally, you could set the “gap price” for yourself if you wanted. (Eventually 5 silver is nothing to you, and for a while, 20cp is a lot).

Riggald.3068:

My proposal:
- a new type of loot container. Only items in this container can be bulk-sold instantly.

I’m going to call it the “Swag Bag”.

The Swag Bag sounds complicated.

There are a lot more useless items than just armor and weapons. For me the ratio of useful vs useless items must be like 1:10000.

Would the Swag Bag bulk sell guard against selling under vendor prices?
(Is it even possible to place a buy order on TP under vendor price?)

Would the Swag Bag have bulk use for Essence of Luck, Liquid World experience and Liquid Karma item stacks?
(Why are these items anyway?)

Would the Swag Bag allow bulk salvage operations?

best for this would be Shift + left click in your bag on item sell it instantly tp the highest bid

or mouseover the item in your bag and press f11 …. whatever

so dont even need to open Tradepost to sell

Electro.4173:

I’m imagining dozens upon dozens of “Sell all button sold my exotic / precursor / legendary / grandmother” posts on the forums and tickets to support. Doesn’t sound like a good idea.

for this items an window can popup and ask “wanna sell this really?”

Korgov.7645:

Riggald.3068:

My proposal:
- a new type of loot container. Only items in this container can be bulk-sold instantly.

I’m going to call it the “Swag Bag”.

The Swag Bag sounds complicated.

There are a lot more useless items than just armor and weapons. For me the ratio of useful vs useless items must be like 1:10000.

Would the Swag Bag bulk sell guard against selling under vendor prices?
(Is it even possible to place a buy order on TP under vendor price?)

Would the Swag Bag have bulk use for Essence of Luck, Liquid World experience and Liquid Karma item stacks?
(Why are these items anyway?)

Would the Swag Bag allow bulk salvage operations?

Yes – it sounds complicated – but I don’t thing anet will do anything that unbalances lots of other things.

If we have Instant sell of everything, why do we need containers at all? (Almost)

Black Lion Trading Company (BLTC) auto-guards against selling below vendor price.

For junk items and materials we already have “Deposit all materials” on Inventory screen and “sell (all) junk” at vendors.

The big issue is having to sell off lots of armour and weapons after every dungeon run.

It’s almost as much time to sit and wade through selling it all as it is to run the dungeon.