Guild Wars 2

Hey,

Noticed some change on the UI for the TP today, anybody knows what up with that and if there are more changes?

Thanks.

Are you going to give us a hint of what you think changed? I don’t see anything major myself.

The green “success” screen after placing a buy order or buying an item loads quicker and has a slightly altered appearance.

The main thing I noticed is a bug where, if you select an item via inventory or the TP item lists and load its buy screen, 1 out of every 4 or 5 times it will automatically select dozens of the listings that are for sale. Taking note of the current quantity box it says “1”, but if you look at the price then it shows dozens of gold as being the price all those auto-selected items will cost.

So if you quickly go to buy an item, you load its item page, obviously it should default to buying only 1, especially due to it even saying “1” in the quantity box. But if you hit buy, then you just bought dozens of gold worth of the item despite it saying you’d be buying 1. Already got me once when I first loaded up the TP after the update.

So, here’s the warning: Make sure to deselect all of the auto-selected items even if the quantity box says 1, or manually select only the top listing to force there to be only 1 item selected before hitting buy.

Opening an item’s trading page and hitting buy should only buy 1 of that item…not dozens (or hundreds) of gold worth of the item due to it auto selecting half of the listed items for sale while still showing you as only buying 1 of the item in the quantity box.

I’ll screenshot it later, or maybe even record a video of it.

The transaction box is narrower and the listings show 6 entries rather than 5. These are both beneficial if not important changes. Text in the current buyers/sellers no longer gets changed from dull grey to white when highlighted (just stays dull grey) making the left half of the line where the highlighting is the most intense very hard to read. This should be changed back, or fixed if it’s a bug.

Otherwise, I see nothing new. Several bugs still exist. Full tab support still not implemented in all areas. Inconsistent search function capability from one section to another. Essentially, nothing that needed fixing has been fixed that I’ve seen so far.

It would be nice if the devs could bother to inform us peons about such changes and/or fixes that have been made that are beyond cosmetic (i.e. functional) rather than letting us find them on our own. I’m not into easter egg hunts when it comes to GUI use.

I’ve been having a ton of problems with adjusting prices today – it’s like the window can’t recognize which box (gold, sliver, copper) is being moused over or clicked on. I’ll mouse over and click on the silver price field and it’ll auto-increment the gold price. It’s kind of a mess.

Behellagh.1468:

Are you going to give us a hint of what you think changed? I don’t see anything major myself.

Hey sorry! I should have been more precise. Like the others have said, change to the colors and size of the UI. The font seem to be different as well!

Also the background-color of the item-window is greenish when buying and blueish when selling, now. Which is cosmetic, but useful.

More often I’m not able to change the price when hovering over the currency and using the mouse-wheel, as I was used to, though. Or change the number manually, especially on the copper amount. Seems the boxes to trigger that are a bit misplaced now. (Or am just lagging)

There’s a new change that you can hit “More” and it will load the next part instead of not being able to scroll any further. Big change for me since I usually have a lot of orders that I can now see whenever I want.

Since yesterdays update i encountered several new behaviours.

First of all, the hitboxes of the small windows where you adjust the G/S/C values, seems to be quite a bit to the right of their visual appearance, so if i click on the copper value, it will adjust the silver value and the gold value when i try to click on the silver value.
Thats quite an annoying bug, if you rely alot like me and do alot of clicking via muscle memory. I listed 500 snowflakes for 2.02g instead of 2 silver earlier, 50g listing fee down the drain.

Another new thing i encountered is that if you open the info window of a new item, it actually remembers now the position of the listings/bids scroll bar.
So if you have Item A open and scroll the listings window all the way down to see the highest listing, then close the window and open it on Item B, it will actually show the 6 highest listings (listings 45-50), not the 6 lowest listings, like it used to.

Enko.6123:

There’s a new change that you can hit “More” and it will load the next part instead of not being able to scroll any further. Big change for me since I usually have a lot of orders that I can now see whenever I want.

Not sure if you are already using any apps/websites that make use of the new trading API keys, which makes overview over your transactions alot easier, if you trade alot.
There are quite a few out there, personally i use
https://www.gw2bltc.com
As I think it has the best functionality (alarms, if you get outbid/undercut, tax reports, flipping calculation of the last 90 days, etc).
You are also able to view your historical transactions offline.

I’ve only see minor cosmetic changes, the font, crisper outlines around items.

Looks like another downgrade to me. Anet should stop fixing what isnt broken.