Guild Wars 2

I ask this cos I want to send an armour piece to some one who is on a different server and guild.

Can this be done though the in-game email?

Yes, email would be your only option.

Thanks mercury, I will give this a try !

Cheers!

Keep in mind though that there are no safeguards in trading by email. If you are expecting something in return for what you send, there’s nothing to guarantee that you will receive it. You are basically trusting in the honesty of the person you’re trading with. That works fine with friends, but can be a real inhibitor for dealing with anyone else — and with good reason.

The only way to ensure that you receive payment for goods you’re selling, is by using the Trading Post. The drawback there is that it is anonymous and the person you are wanting to trade with, may not actually be able to grab the item once it’s been posted, since anyone who sees it can buy it.

It’s a really bizarre and restrictive trade system. It’s basically pushing you towards the Trading Post, which itself is a really stellar trade system, but it all but prevents individuals from dealing with each other personally, unless you’ve already established trust between you. Not exactly a great community building mechanism.

Blacklight.2871:

It’s a really bizarre and restrictive trade system. It’s basically pushing you towards the Trading Post, which itself is a really stellar trade system, but it all but prevents individuals from dealing with each other personally, unless you’ve already established trust between you. Not exactly a great community building mechanism.

It is ArenaNet’s way of enforcing money sinks into the game and also a way of preventing the usual Trade Window sleight of hand scamming. Customer Support always gets bogged down by Trade Window scams since they “technically” didn’t scam the player. These scammers just added and removed items / cash from the windows (or opened up extra windows) with such physical speed that they suckered the other player into clicking on the wrong thing because that player had a slower reaction time.

Resolving this kinds of things are a royal pain for Customer Support. In response to that, ArenaNet has preventing this situation from ever existing. Now it’s either the 100% BLTC auction system, or a game of Mail russian roulette that people can recognize as risky before they even start the exchange.

I don’t completely agree with ArenaNet on this stance, but I can see their point of view and it is an interesting way of trying to prevent economic inflation.