Guild Wars 2

*What are “Trading post merchant vendors”(TPMV)? *

They are NPC that sells certain items from the Black lion trading post. What you buy from this npc is what you buy on the trading post. The difference between this and pressing ‘o’ is that this system is not a centralized system.

These TPMV go around the world mainly to sell blue/green rarity weapons/armor relative to the zone’s level to the players. Instead of the player having to waypoint back to LA to pick up the items, they can buy it right there.

Players would stumble upon the TPMV, and buy better weapons/armor if they have the silver to buy it. After all, fast traveling back to LA to pick up new armor and weapons can be flow-breaking. I would rather buy the items right there.

Some can be simple crafting materials sellers or consumable sellers. For example, In front of a copper mine, there would be a vendor that sells copper ore. Restaurants would sell food or even feasts. See that Inn that sells feasts? Take your roleplaying friends in there and feast on a feast.

Lore

There are two main types of Trading post merchant vendors.

• Black Lion
• Consortium

The Consortium and the Black Lion are aggressively expanding business. To do so, they push merchandise out into the world to be sold to travelers and adventurers.

Reasons to have this

• Roleplaying and immersion. This is necessary to make the game feel alive. Seeing vendors selling the same salvage kits, white weapons/armor items does not help to make the game feel alive.
• Helps the economy. Players will buy items because they want it, not because they need it. If they need it enough to buy it from the Black Lion TP tab, then they don’t need to search all over the world for that TP merchant vendor. They just have to buy it from the Black Lion TP tab.

I would like to know everyone’s opinions. Even a well-explained bad one.