Guild Wars 2

This is a minor flaw, but can be really irritating. Some Karma merchants have a tendency to walk away from you as you are browsing their wares, and even if you try and keep up with them, the menu is closed automatically, which can be really annoying when you are trying to look at the stats of the gear they offer and they walk away every 10 seconds or so. This isn’t just a problem with Karma merchants either, it happens with any npc that isn’t set to stand in one place permanently. If someone is speaking with an npc, it should interrupt their pathing, causing them to stand in place until you are no longer browsing their items/speaking with them, or at least allow you to walk alongside them without the menu closing

The only time I notice Merchants moving is when they engage in combat which, naturally, seems like a good time to stop bartering and start beating. =P

True that, but some of them do move around a bit even outside of combat. It took a few times for me to get annoyed by it, but it does happen, albeit not that often. The main thing that annoyed me was this one specific npc in Snowden Drifts who literally walked away from me every 10 seconds, back and forth to the same points within like a 20 foot radius. There was no rhyme or reason for him to be doing this, other than making the world seem less stagnant, because he didn’t do anything relevant otherwise. It was almost pointless to make a thread about it, considering most people aren’t such sticklers about detail. I just can’t help but notice the little things xD

Hmmm. Can’t say I ever noticed that. Perhaps when I’m next in that area I’ll take a look.