Dear Arenanet,
I think it’s time, that the auction house is provided with some more filters. Searching for things like back armor, food and weapon buffs is annoying – since these are hard to find in it.
For such items, players can’t even easily browse through the offers and look at the tooltips to decide what they want and what not. Instead they have to rely on external websites (or own memory for that matter), that tell them which sorts of food or consumables there actually are. Then they have to go back, enter the name of the item and get the result. Hopefully they cleared the filter before doing so.
Furthermore, there is no option to search only for armor that the own class can use. Either there should be a checkbox that filters out every item that can’t be used by the profession or there should be subcategories for armor types (light, medium, heavy).
You accomplished pretty much with GW2 and for me it’s hard to believe, that you’re not able to add such simple options to your auction house. It needs some love. Get it out of the beta status, because that’s what it feels like right now. I know you can do it, and if you truly play your own game, you know you want these filters in there.
Thanks for reading.
PS:
English isn’t my native language, so I apologize for any inconvenience.