Guild Wars 2

Hi!
Is just me that want a option to select “Light, Medium and Heavy” when searching for a armor on Trading Post??
And if i’m not, they are planing to improve it?

not just you. just about everyone on these forums have requested this and other quality of life improvements for a long time now.

I would almost rather have a profession choice that then thins out the weapon sub category as well as only letting you see the armor with the correct weight for your profession.

Still have an all if you’re just shopping for salvage purposes.

My guess is that the item database doesn’t have a field for armor weight. They’d have to go back through, add the field, and classify all the armor items in the database to make it searchable. I suppose the manpower effort required to do that is why it hasn’t been done.

nanasalvi.4205:

Hi!
Is just me that want a option to select “Light, Medium and Heavy” when searching for a armor on Trading Post??
And if i’m not, they are planing to improve it?

Can’t do that. It would only make things easy for those evil TP flippers.

/sarcasm

Mckeone.9804:

My guess is that the item database doesn’t have a field for armor weight. They’d have to go back through, add the field, and classify all the armor items in the database to make it searchable. I suppose the manpower effort required to do that is why it hasn’t been done.

It does have a field for armor weight.

Even without ArenaNet doing anything, you can already do this through the official items api. Take the item and match it against items api through the item id which would give you the weight class if it is an armor. It is called a JOIN on the item id field with data from the TP api and from the official items api, in SQL parlance. My gui app does this.

If I can already do this with the data that ArenaNet provides, I am sure that ArenaNet can easily do this themselves.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:1/item_details#Armor