Guild Wars 2

maybe turn it into a Public Trader Express? so other people can use it? the permanent merchant is public and in places like Dry Top and Orr, and generally a lot of the game, it’d be nice to have this open to the public, especially since in dry top, there is NO trading post, and in Orr, the single trading post very often gets bugged to not be useable

The permanent merchant isnt public as far as i know

that’s why i was trying to suggest, make it public, it would be much more beneficial, more useful, for those areas where a trading post is ungodly far away, or bugged

so people who manage to have one can share the help

I’d say they’re fine as personal. You can’t share other account bound items, no? Why should you be able to share a summon off an account bound item?

If they won’t go with public, I’d suggest they make them more like the Permanent Bank, which pops open when you click on it instead of spawning an interactable NPC that nobody else can use.

AngelDiscarnate.5489:

I’d say they’re fine as personal. You can’t share other account bound items, no? Why should you be able to share a summon off an account bound item?

permanent black lion merchant is account bound and open for public use

Aetheldrake.6395:

AngelDiscarnate.5489:

I’d say they’re fine as personal. You can’t share other account bound items, no? Why should you be able to share a summon off an account bound item?

permanent black lion merchant is account bound and open for public use

Its not all permanents are only for you. This definetly needs change. Also you cant summon merchant and trading post at same time witch is super annoying..

As someone who has perma contracts, I can guarantee you no one else can use the npc that plops down.
And as funny as it is to watch people run out of their way to get to the npc that won’t talk to them, I’ve been suggesting a few things for over a year:
1) don’t let other people see the npc at all (currently you can talk to it, but it just says something like ‘this belongs to someone else’)
2) don’t put a vendor icon on the mini map as a beacon calling all players to that location. while you’re at it, put a icon on the map for any guild banners.
3) I like the idea of making them all like the perma bank and perma MF: where there is no npc, but instead using the item just opens that window, then you close the window and it’s gone.
4) perma TP deliverer is actually a bit annoying to use. If you do #3 above, it would solve it. what happens is the npc dies and goes away after like 5 or 10 minutes. if you happen to have the TP open at the time, the window closes. so you basically have to open it, withdraw, close window, walk far enough away from it, open tp, yadiyadayada when you want to buy more things.
5) rename some of the contracts. (not the items you use to summon the npc; the contracts you get from BL chests that give you the items). TP and vendor are too similar (guess what “Permanent Black Lion Merchant Contract” summons? Then there’s “Permanent Trading Post Express Contract”). easiest would be to take “Black Lion” out of that name and maybe put it into the other.