Guild Wars 2

First off —
Why the hell am I unable to get a STEEL logging, gathering or mining tool at a merchant that used to sell me ONLY less than that…? In a BEGINNER AREA, mind you.

If I know I’m going to be out gathering in areas that have NO need of it, then why the hell would I WANT to pay the expense of a MITHRIL tool?

But Second off, I go back to one of the main cities (Hoelbrak, in this case) to find one of the ACTUAL merchants who sells everything — and I’ve gone around to about TEN different merchants — the ONLY thing ANY of them sell is @%#$#^#^ FOOOOOOD.

>:-/

If you’re going to have merchants that have massively different collections of stuff, then you need to have some EASY way of discerning which ones in your area SELL which things without running to EACH and everyone CHECKING. And particularly which ones of them sell BASIC SUPPLIES.

God what a stupid, pointless WASTE of TIME.

These things aren’t actually bugs, so this thread should really be in the Suggestions forum.

Some merchants in zones sell tools based off your real character level, not your scaled down level. If you’re level 65+, those merchants will sell you Darksteel/Mithril tools. It’s a bit of a gamble to know which merchants sell which tools, so what I do is I buy extras of each tool (I carry around 3 Iron Harvesting Sickles/Axes/Picks, for example) so I never run the risk of running out before I can find another merchant.

As a rule of thumb, the merchant next to the bank will sell everything. Master Crafter NPCs will also sell every single type of kit or tool available in one of their tabs.

No, this is a BUG, it’s a design bug in the sense that it should not be such a pain in the rectal orifice to find a merchant who does basic item sales.

Why the hell does anyone need 97 merchants all selling 9 different food items but can’t find a single one in an area which is actually selling the stuff EVERYONE needs on a regular basis?

THAT is a BUG.

i buy my gathering and salvage tools at npc near LA bank, or in crafting npcs near craftstations – usually my server borderlands, as i can access them from anywhere

design flaw is not a bug. as a programmer i want to slap you in the face
bug is something that is not working the way it was designed to work