Guild Wars 2

Hey all,
Compared to the old system, the new trading AI seems clunky and slow. Previously when selling a list of items after a dungeon or some such event, I could click the item, click to sell it, and move on to the next item.
Now, I have to click the item, wait for a UI to fade in, set the quantity (it always defaults to one), set the price (I usually instant-sell, it now defaults to setting a sell order), click to sell, then click another dialogue that confirms it was in fact sold.

All of these extra clicks to do the exact same thing I was doing just fine before is vastly slowing down the experience of selling large inventories at once. This in turn slows down the entire party between multiple dungeon runs, where every party members generally needs to sell excess items. I’m not understanding how slowing down our ability to sell was an improvement; has someone found a trick to this that makes it more viable?

Coming onto another issue; sometimes I will max-out the ‘quantity’ of an item I am trying to sell, set it up to be instantly sold to the highest buy order and… Sale Confirmed popup… then I’m right back in front of the item with several of its quantity remaining, even though the buy order was asking for Hundreds and I only tried to sell about a dozen.

This further slows the system, adds more clicks, more confusion, and ultimately more frustration, as I am spending vastly longer staring at the Sell screen than I would really like to between adventures.

At least you can sell. My client crashes every time I try to get to the sell tab. =P

But yes, what you said. The new TP is so sluggish and inefficient. Gotta love the constant DB queries both before you perform a search and while you’re navigating the categories.

Having to open an extra drop-down menu to set filters is rather annoying as well. A clean UI does not equal a functional one, and this new UI seems to trade looking pretty for its actual functionality. Doing almost all actions now takes more clicks, more corrections, and more waiting than it did before. That is the opposite of ideal UI redesign.

Abellus.2615:

vastly slowing down the experience of selling large inventories at once

well… at least that might fix “Error Attempting to Sell”. (still at work, but a video a couple days ago said they were keeping this pos – are we still cursed?)

It should default to what you did last time. You sold to highest buy on the last item? default to highest buyer this item. I can’t imagine a single scenario where that wouldn’t be the ideal situation.

Whoa, new info.

Do NOT type “Dwayna” into the search. It instantly causes an error and crashes the game.

Seriously. Don’t do it.

Abellus.2615:

Whoa, new info.

Do NOT type “Dwayna” into the search. It instantly causes an error and crashes the game.

Seriously. Don’t do it.

This thread in the Bugs Forum is discussing search terms that cause crashes. They seem to be aware of “dwayna”, as well as several others.