Guild Wars 2

So I see these npcs all over the place with the armor or weapon symbol above their heads. They seem to all sell the same thing. Some of them even have two different sales tabs with a set of different prices for seemingly the same items, maybe with different level reqs.

What gives? Do each of these merchants have gear with different unique skins or something? I’ll be honest, I haven’t bought stuff from these guys so I haven’t actually tried it out for myself. It seems, though, that they are pretty much pointless.

If someone wiser than me reads this post, can you answer my question?

I think they are for if you break your armor and don’t have enough repair money. That’s the only thing I can think of. Inexpensive armor so you don’t have to run around nekkid.

Katz.5143:

I think they are for if you break your armor and don’t have enough repair money. That’s the only thing I can think of. Inexpensive armor so you don’t have to run around nekkid.

In some high level areas it is more expensive to buy the npc gear than to repair your own. So while this may be one possible use for this stuff (armor at least, but not weapons), I can’t imagine that this is what the devs had in mind when they placed these npcs.

Bump. I want to know why these NPCs even exist. They seem almost pointless. The Guild Wars Wiki for Weaponsmith even says:

“Weapons sold by these NPC vendors have less strength and lower attribute bonuses than crafted weapons of the same level (approximately 20% less average strength and 20-30% lower attribute bonuses compared to the crafted equivalent)”

Why would anyone want that? You can buy, or better yet make, crafted versions which have better stats, very often for cheaper than the NPC prices.

Am I missing something, or are these NPCs really that pointless?

The only thing I can think of is its for those that power leveled by crafting and they need to update their gear whilst they farm their own better gear.

But this has been largely made redundant as the TP offers better gear for the same price if not cheaper, an issue that perhaps the devs couldn’t foresee?

Arcano Blitz.5307:

The only thing I can think of is its for those that power leveled by crafting and they need to update their gear whilst they farm their own better gear.

But this has been largely made redundant as the TP offers better gear for the same price if not cheaper, an issue that perhaps the devs couldn’t foresee?

I guess this could be a possibility, but if you truly gained that many levels from power-level crafting then you probably did leatherworking, armorsmithing, huntsman, weaponsmithing, or tailoring along the way, so you ought to be able to craft your own gear.

It just seems that anyway you look at it, these NPCs are pointless. I just don’t understand why A-Net would put these things in-game unless they had a useful purpose.

Anyone else have an idea? I MUST KNOW!!!

They’re useless. You now know.

not entirely useless. I went a while without a pistol dropping once and bought one of these on the cheap as a stop gap till i got a better one.

I see that these dirty buggers have found their way to the Lost Shores. Not sure who invited them, as they have yet to justify their existence. Explain yourselves! Why?

Bump – in the hopes of a fresh perspective on these pointless, pathetic excuses for NPCs. Why???

So you have someone to sell to.

Otherwise they’re useless.