Guild Wars 2

I’m sitting at a crafting station and I buy required materials for what I’m crafting from the TP and I thought “can we just have it be usable right away w/o having to go to the BLTP NPC? Instantly available/deposited to my bank (if it’s a material)?”

I think it’s a good idea

So you want them to remove Trading Post Express from the game?

Not gonna happen.

I can understand a request to directly deposit funds, but materials and items should need to be “picked up” from the TP.

Now more convenient locations of TP agents is something I can get behind 100%.

Brother Grimm.5176:

…Now more convenient locations of TP agents is something I can get behind 100%.

This is a better solution, but we’re never going to have conveniently-placed NPC’s as long as the Bank Express is a thing.

So I take it everyone enjoys having to run around all the time?

I’m suggesting that if you have materials that you buy on the TP that you have direct use of them upon them being placed in the “Pick-up” tab of the TP.

Follow this concept:
-You are crafting Ascended weapons
-You refine all of your current materials to further the crafting chain
-You realize that you’re a bit short on Deldrimor Steel Ingots
-You also realize that you have 10 Lumps of Mithrillium
-You note that you don’t have enough Iron Ore to make your Iron/Steel Ingots
-You further note you don’t have enough Platinum Ore to make your Darksteel Ingots
-You want to cut costs by NOT buying Deldrimor Steel Ingots off the TP
-You purchase the required Iron/Steel/Platinum Ore on the TP
-You run over to the TP to get your Ores
-You run back to the crafting station to refine them into Deldrimor Steel Ingots
-You realize that you don’t have enough Spiritwood Planks (repeat run around)
-You craft a Deldrimor Steel Dowel
-You realize again that you don’t have enough Deldrimor
-You setup to craft Deldrimor (again running around)
-You realize you don’t have enough Spiritwood (again)
-You setup to craft Spiritwood (again)
-You did math wrong and ended up with not enough Glob of Elder Spirit Residue
-You sell your excess Wood to reclaim some lost costs
-You then attempt to buy Spiritwood off the TP but you don’t have enough money
-You then run to the TP to get your money from your reclaimed material costs
-You then run back to the crafting station forgetting to buy your Spiritwood
-You then buy your Spiritwood at the crafting station and run back to the TP (again)
-You pick up your Spiritwood and run back to the crafting station (again)
-And then you finally craft 1 Ascended Weapon.
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This is a VERY common occurrence with many people in my guild who are either new or just aren’t able to remember as much. They are older and possibly lack the memory/organization skills to effectively deal with this and the math involved all in 1 shot to be as effective as possible.

Putting all the materials immediately into being available for use would be an EXTREME help for these types of players because they can just sit at the crafting station and slowly work to complete their crafting goals.

The game can already pull from your deposited collection of materials, bank slots, and inventory – why not allow access to a completed TP transaction in the “Pick-up” tab?

It WOULDN’T remove items that WOULDN’T be used in a “Crafting Station” recipe, but it WOULD remove items that WOULD be used in “Crafting Station” recipes (this would allow food and jewelry items that are crafted off other items or ones that don’t go into a collectibles slot in the bank to be removed too).

This is for convenience of crafting in a town. It’s not meant to be game breaking.

It would be nice if they could add the receiving tab from the BLTP into the crafting window. I mean you’re in cities, it’s just a time issue as far as getting the supplies right?

The expresses would still be used in the open world away from cities where it’s not just a quick run back and forth.

Removes an inconvenience without removing much of a desire to use those expresses.

Dragon Ruler X.8512:

So I take it everyone enjoys having to run around all the time?

I’m suggesting that if you have materials that you buy on the TP that you have direct use of them upon them being placed in the “Pick-up” tab of the TP.

Follow this concept:
-You are crafting Ascended weapons
-You refine all of your current materials to further the crafting chain
-You realize that you’re a bit short on Deldrimor Steel Ingots
-You also realize that you have 10 Lumps of Mithrillium
-You note that you don’t have enough Iron Ore to make your Iron/Steel Ingots
-You further note you don’t have enough Platinum Ore to make your Darksteel Ingots
-You want to cut costs by NOT buying Deldrimor Steel Ingots off the TP
-You purchase the required Iron/Steel/Platinum Ore on the TP
-You run over to the TP to get your Ores
-You run back to the crafting station to refine them into Deldrimor Steel Ingots
-You realize that you don’t have enough Spiritwood Planks (repeat run around)
-You craft a Deldrimor Steel Dowel
-You realize again that you don’t have enough Deldrimor
-You setup to craft Deldrimor (again running around)
-You realize you don’t have enough Spiritwood (again)
-You setup to craft Spiritwood (again)
-You did math wrong and ended up with not enough Glob of Elder Spirit Residue
-You sell your excess Wood to reclaim some lost costs
-You then attempt to buy Spiritwood off the TP but you don’t have enough money
-You then run to the TP to get your money from your reclaimed material costs
-You then run back to the crafting station forgetting to buy your Spiritwood
-You then buy your Spiritwood at the crafting station and run back to the TP (again)
-You pick up your Spiritwood and run back to the crafting station (again)
-And then you finally craft 1 Ascended Weapon.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is a VERY common occurrence with many people in my guild who are either new or just aren’t able to remember as much. They are older and possibly lack the memory/organization skills to effectively deal with this and the math involved all in 1 shot to be as effective as possible.

Putting all the materials immediately into being available for use would be an EXTREME help for these types of players because they can just sit at the crafting station and slowly work to complete their crafting goals.

The game can already pull from your deposited collection of materials, bank slots, and inventory – why not allow access to a completed TP transaction in the “Pick-up” tab?

It WOULDN’T remove items that WOULDN’T be used in a “Crafting Station” recipe, but it WOULD remove items that WOULD be used in “Crafting Station” recipes (this would allow food and jewelry items that are crafted off other items or ones that don’t go into a collectibles slot in the bank to be removed too).

This is for convenience of crafting in a town. It’s not meant to be game breaking.

Well a simple fix resolves all of those “realize” issues. It’s called plan ahead. You count everything you need, buy it and then craft. Crafting in this game can’t fail, so unless you counted wrong, you won’t have problems.

And you’re missing the point of the other answers that people gave you. It’s not that your suggestion is bad, in fact it’s really good, exceptional even. BUT, why should ANet implement this considering it would make them lose money. As the other people have said there’s this consumable Black Lion Express Merchant which you buy with gems that allows you to pick up stuff off the TP without actually having to go there. This merchant here lasts for 15 minutes and then you have to use a new one.
So, AGAIN, implementing this would make ANet lose money, and that’s the only reason it won’t happen.

On a related note, best BL trader location for crafting I have found is the one on the western side of LA. Does anyone know of one closer to the crafting stations? I know the others in LA are close also, but the stations seem closer to each other at that one as well, so easier to bounce between several stations.

I like Rata Sum for my crafting.

As for the OP’s suggestion. It would be convenient… but I grow tired of people suggesting hundreds of ways to cut corners here, cut time off here… It’s like this game is nothing but a chore to so many people. I’m sorry if that is in any way offensive – I’m just annoyed.

“Follow this concept: …”
In the old days you had to transfer gold from one character to another manually, there was no account wide wallet. Always a pain if you misjudge by a few silvers.

Do your crafting in DR. The teleport spots are fairly well placed to pick up stuff at TP and run back, especially for armor smithing. Often you can avoid the loading screen altogether.

The TP is just a few steps away in the Terrace. Also, I have lots and lots of Trading Post Express consumables sitting in my bank. They seem to drop quite often from Daily rewards, and of course, AP chests. ArenaNet is pretty darn good about making things convenient already, at least, in my mind. =)

Lishtenbird.2814:

So you want them to remove Trading Post Express from the game?

Not gonna happen.

True, but it would be nice if the Permanent Trading Post Express Contract cost a little less than the current ~4000 gems though.

I always found it hilarious to find Trading Post Express NPC’s 10 feet away from the regular Trading Post NPC. How lazy are people? LOL

Malganis.7468:

I always found it hilarious to find Trading Post Express NPC’s 10 feet away from the regular Trading Post NPC. How lazy are people? LOL

Very lazy.