Guild Wars 2

Dear Arenanet,

Guild Wars 2 is released for about one year now. Although the Trading Post has seen some great improvements during this time, I wonder why it is still lacking two of the most basic features – a filter for the armor classes and linking items from the Trading Post to the chat window.

Whenever I invite new (or almost new) players to this game, they tell me, that finding their desired armors or skins is a royal pain in the butt here. I tend to agree, because when I try to help and explain them everything, I find myself constantly switching between the game client, fansites with screenshots, and databases that hold item codes. If this is a hassle for me, as a long term player, you surely can imagine how new players can react to something like that. If I would not do the ‘search work’ for them, they would get frustrated really, really fast. It simply eats up to much time. Giving them more clarity, with a filter for armor classes, would help immensely, because browsing through the offers would be so much smoother. Also linking stuff from the Trading Post to the chat window would help veterans. This way they could help newbies more easily.

I understand, that you have many things to do and that you have priorities. I know, that I do not have insight into your infrastructure, databases and programs that are connected to them. However, I also know, that every single database available is able to perform such actions. I am very sure, that your experts can create queries which look at the fields the armor classes are stored in. In most cases this only needs a minor addition to already existing queries. I am also sure, that linking from the Trading Post is possible. Furthermore, I am convinced, that within the time span of one year, these things could have been implemented, without taking away to much time from major projects.

It is out of this educated conviction, I would like to state my personal dissapointment in Arenanet. I think the problem is known for some time now, a solution however has yet to be delivered. I sincerely hope you will recognize this as a real problem and work on an improvement soon.

Yours sincerely
Natsu

PS:
I apologize for any mistakes. English isn’t my native language.

I agree, the filters can be much better than what we currently have available. Trading post needs several updates. I think the gem store needs to be reworked with tabs within say “Style” for weapon skins/ armor skins/town clothes/holiday events… and also make the “preview” window larger and give it an option for wielding (2) weapons. and on a side note the Black Lion Ticket Merchants for weapons and stuff need to be reworked they are getting to be ridiculous when you go shop their stuff like 10+ bags to choose from, what happens in a year with so many events coming out we will have a scroll through 20 bags to find the one we want… (and the skins should only cost 1 ticket 5-7 is to much)

+1.

What he said.

At least give us a filter for hard / medium / light armor. Or a profession filter.

Yepp, exactly this.
I remember having a hard time to figure out how / where to find the armor I needed, and had to read everything thrice to not buy the wrong stuff. ^^

Being able to link the stuff would be very neat too.