Guild Wars 2

After some success on reddit with this post I thought that I would post this on the official forums of GW2, hoping for my voice to be heard.

1. Placing orders on an existing order list.

If I want to place an order for an item I have to check if I’ve already placed an order for that item which can be very tedious at times. What I want to see instead is the option to place an order to an existing order list, like we have with items we are selling for the lowest price.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/TV9eZ.jpg?1

2. Orders in same column as price, level etc.

A very small thing to fix but I believe it will save a lot of people unnecessary clicks.
When searching for an item we see the price of the item, level, rarity and supply. What I want added to this is also the latest order in the same tab. This will save time for many who only needs to search for an item to see if it’s time to order or not.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/cBDTu.jpg?1

3. “My transactions” should look the same as the “Trading Post” page.

The biggest issue I have with “My transactions” is how clumsy it is. My solution to this is to copy how the main page/first page of the trading post looks like. An example to this is:

In the first page we have 4 different options to choose from.
Top Valued Items
Top Supplied Items
Top Demanded Item
Top Traded Items

These could be replaced with the 4 options we have in the “My transactions” tab.
Items I’m Selling
Items I’m Buying
Items I’ve Sold
Items I’ve Bought

Imagine how easy it would be just to click on an item you are selling in the same way you instantly can click on an Legendary weapon.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/rL9lT.jpg?1

4. Clickable sidebar tabs.

If I want to view an item on the first page on the TP and then go back to the first page I have to click on another sidebar tab and then click the trading post tab again.
A pretty easy fix and it would work just like any other website where there are some kind of Home button, in this case the home button would lead you back to the tab you’ve chosen without switching to a random tab and then back again.

5. Preview option on armor and weapons.

An issue which have been taken up several times. We can preview armor and weapons from merchants in the game, why should we not have the possibility to preview expensive armor and weapons from the trading post directly?

6. Filter gear by heavy, medium or light.

This is a really necessary option for many players who does not want to go to another page just to buy their gloves and another page to buy their helms. We have an similar option for weapons, this should be just as easy.
I’d love to hear what you also think should be fixed!

These all look good to me and would be valuable improvements in the BLTC interface. I would also like to put forward the idea of adding a digit to the ordering process so the maximum is in the thousands rather than 250.

I understand the whole concept of ‘buying a single stack’ but for those of us who want to buy 8000 of something, it is pretty tedious.

7. Crafting Materials sorted by Tier

8. Option to buy multiple full stacks
example – http://imgur.com/iN9Nq

Improve the filter/search function.
When I filter for Consumables/Food – all I get are various alcoholic drinks, but none of the dishes that come from cooks. They only show as Consumables, which mkes a long list, e.g. including all dyes.

I do support all of these ideas, even if they don’t come any time soon, they should be added.

I agree, I really want to be able to preview items from the trading post… I’m a very aesthetic person and so I like to see how the armor i’m going to buy looks on my character. I’m actually very surprised that this hasn’t been implemented yet. We can preview items pretty much everywhere else except the trading post…

i dont how many time i’ve got armor from the post and i didn’t like how it looked at all and i wasted my money on something. and i think it really should “Filter gear by heavy, medium or light”, its hard to fight the right gear with two other wrights getting in way of your search. and then maybe sorting out the crafting mats too, (Ex. Crafting Mat-Cooking or Tailoring) that would be useful

Don’t forget the ability to see other listed prices (not just highest buy order/lowest listing/your lowest) when you go to sell something instead of needing to waste time looking it up.

I made this post comparing the Eve Online market to the GW2 TP:

Since Eve Online’s market is similar enough to the trading post that you could accuse ANET of copying it, lets compare how much data each gives:
– Here is the market details window in Eve. It shows all orders for that region. Ignore all the columns apart from price and quantity, as location doesn’t matter in GW2 and orders don’t expire.
Now lets blank out the bits you don’t see at various points in the trading post.
– This is what you see on the buy now screen.
– This is what you see when placing a buy order.
– This is what you see on the selling screen.

So if you want the full amount of information to sell an item, you need to look the item up on both the buy screens. Sometimes you’ll want to look at historical trends, which means pulling up gw2spidy. Eve Online has the historical data graphed in game. Even worse, GW2spidy only tracks the orders and can’t tell the difference between filled and canceled orders, while the data on Eve’s graph are calculated from the sales that took place.
Those green bars at the bottom ?
Those are the number of trades that happened for that item. The trading post doesn’t show us any data on trading volume.

My suggestion: Make the TP interface more like Eve’s market interface.

I agree with the original post in full