Guild Wars 2

This isn’t a very high priority bug, so don’t worry about it. It affects a very small minority of players because not many have access to these personal NPCs.

You get an error message “You may only have one rentable contract NPC out at a time.” regardless of the actual reason why you cannot summon a personal NPC.

Actual errors for not being able to summon the merchant include:
1. There is another rentable contract merchant of yours, (not really that likely since they are 200g apiece)

2. Someone else summoned a NPC in that vicinity so you cannot use your merchant to overlap with that other person’s merchant.

3. Someone summoned a box of fun. This also conflicts with placement of personal merchants even though it isn’t explicitly stated.

As a small side note, please make it so that we can put more than one personal merchant down at a time, the maximum we can have is three anyway, (merchant/TP/banker) and at 200g apiece, not many people will have access to one much less two.

Sorry the screenshot is a little unclear. If you read the chat log you can see that it says “You may only have one rentable contract NPC out at a time.” I hadn’t moved from that location for over 10 minutes, so that should not be a problem and any merchant would have been visible. Therefore the error message is rather vague and unclear.

I agree that players should be able to summon one of each type of contract NPC (Black Lion Merchant, Trading Post, and Banker) at a time. Alternatively, you could allow the owner to dismiss the current NPC they have out and allow them to summon a new NPC afterwards, or just automatically dismiss the previous NPC they have out and replace it with the new one they are trying to summon. This would help the player by not requiring them to remember where the current NPC they have out is and having to travel back to it to use it, and the player would not have to wait 5 minutes between each different type of NPC service they want to use. One of these changes, or a different one that addresses these problems, would be appreciated.