Guild Wars 2

Curtis Johnson.8456:

The primary pain as Ensign mentioned is the power users.

Like later posters in this thread, I’m a casual TP user who disagrees with the above – it’s really not just power users who are feeling the pain. Casual sellers with a full inventory are finding the new UI a clickfest compared to the old one, and are detailing exactly why in this thread. Really, we can’t give a clearer explanation of the issue than the step-by-step explanations we’re already providing… So as casual users we’re providing as much detail as we humanly can on the issue, only to be told it’s mostly a power user problem..?

It feels like there’s a lot less listening going on than claimed. Can you not simply log in, get yourself a full inventory, try to sell on the TP like we casuals do and see for yourself exactly the problem we’re describing?

I logged out in frustration after my first TP clickfest hoping it would be fixed quickly – after all the problem’s not too difficult to explain and anet already understand it as a general problem: too much clicking is A Bad Thing. The thought of having to go through this clickfest every time my inventory is full has put me off logging back in since then.

The new UI for selling on the TP is terrible. To reach the sell panel I now have to:

1) Open tab, click Trading Post, then click Sell My Items. That’s one action more than the old UI
2) Open my inventory, scrabble around trying to find a sellable item, right click and select Sell at Trading Post

The Trading Post view now has fewer sellable items visible, so more scrolling is required.

My regular action is to sell immediately, but the default is List – so another click needed for every sale.

Finally, if I’m selling a stack the default is to sell just 1 item, so I have to use the slider bar to select the full stack – yet another action to take in order to sell.

The previous UI wasn’t great, but this has turned selling into a chore. The UI has been redesigned so that I have more clicking and selecting to make a simple sale. What I needed:

1) A single hotkey to get to the sell panel
2) A larger number of sellable items to view
3) A way to set preferred defaults (e.g., default sell immediately, default sell stack)

I can see there are several improvement to the system, but my main activity on the TP has been made worse…