Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this has been posted already, I didn’t find anything while searching. I’ve been playing since beta and I have to say I’m surprised there’s still no dropdown menu option, something in the user settings, or in the vendor interface that lets us show only useable items. I play as an Elementalist so why would I care what stats and cost the heavy armor has? Why would I want to have to sort through Longbows and Greatswords just to get to my Staff or Daggers or whatever?

I don’t know why Anet hasn’t had this function in the game but here’s my reasoning for asking for it.

I went out to Orr today to get a dps set of shoulders and ended up getting the right stats, just the wrong armor type. So I’m stuck with a pair of heavy armor shoulders that is only bound to my Ele (so I can’t give it to my Warrior OR Guardian) and I come to find out I also can’t break them down for ectos to sell to make some gold at least. So I just wasted 42k Karma on an item I’ll have to delete. Normally I do look closer but the vendor I bought 3 pieces from at a different temple has light armor as the first set shown. The Dwayna temple shows heavy armor first. It isn’t even consistent.

I went back to Lion’s Arch to get some Jugs of Liquid Karma out of the bank to get back to 42k Karma to buy the correct piece of light armor dps gear. What do I find after I get back up to 42k Karma? The temple is contested again. Talk about rubbing salt in a wound.

I know it’s my fault for not looking closer (normally I’m OCD and check the piece 4 times for stats, slot, and type before buying) but it would be really nice to add something like this that seems standard in other games. They managed to add it into the SWTOR GTN because people there kept bringing it up. It would help in our vendors and Trading Post as well. It would also cut down on the clutter of useless items in the windows.