Increase the amount of items listed on the Market Wards

On a side note, as well as selling, i hope the buying interface will be improved

Specifically for armour, at the moment:
a) browsing item search only lists 10 items in the widget box and you have to scroll down to view more,
b) you only see the stats for the item you are browsing over,
c) items are sorted illogically (why not sortable by level or job or stat?)
d) you can keep scrolling forever and ever and always see Felt Hat (colour) (of the ....) variations

Instead of that why not, for example,
- let us view a long list of items as long as the screen on the left side
- have the base item e.g. felt hat, in the main list, when you scroll over that all the possible variations pop up on the right side with all their relevant stats so you can see everything at a glance
- etc

I hope the new UI includes a new system *cough* AH *cough*

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ShinTofu

More item slots to sell won't help anything. What is need is the ability to scroll and view all items of that type for sale, or a separate page for +1 gear and melded gear. There is a lot of stuff I want to put up for sale but don't because it won't be visible with all the nq gear.

---

Agreed, the limitation of the search feature is the biggest issue right now.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ShinTofu

More item slots to sell won't help anything. What is need is the ability to scroll and view all items of that type for sale, or a separate page for +1 gear and melded gear. There is a lot of stuff I want to put up for sale but don't because it won't be visible with all the nq gear.

---

As well as allow people who sell gear to stack it to 5-10 on one item slot so they aren't stuck selling 1 of the same item in all 10 slots. There are a lot of pieces of gear in the game but the diversity of what is sold is limited because people are only willing to sell high priced gear, the lower priced gear gets looked over because it isn't worth it to sell 10 pieces of 10k gear when you could just as easily sell Rosewood branches +1 which stack to 99 for 20k each.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Just tell them to scrap the crappy market wards during the beta phase and build us an AH. Everyone will be happier in the end.

---

We already got an AH. It's called the market wards.

Seriously building "an AH" by itself won't change anything. An auction house could be great or it could be awful. Just as the market wards in 2.0 could be great or they could be awful. No matter how you call it, it all depends on the implementation.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings!

After checking with the version 2.0 UI team, they mentioned that there are no plans to increase the amount of items that players can list on the Market Ward; however, their focus for the new UI is to make it much easier and less stressful to sell items. This will primarily be accomplished via the drag and drop feature and option settings that disable confirmation widgets. After seeing a demonstration of the selling process I can tell you that it looked very smooth compared to the current system.

---

Can we see more then 20 items on the wards at least? Makes it hard to buy HQ materials or triple meld+ items.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings!

After checking with the version 2.0 UI team, they mentioned that there are no plans to increase the amount of items that players can list on the Market Ward; however, their focus for the new UI is to make it much easier and less stressful to sell items. This will primarily be accomplished via the drag and drop feature and option settings that disable confirmation widgets. After seeing a demonstration of the selling process I can tell you that it looked very smooth compared to the current system.

---

Pfhwahaha what? They're keeping the market wards?

Please at least tell us it'll be in addition to a good AH system.

Please reconsider this. The current amount is so low and it becomes difficult to diversify your market.

In respect to AH's and Market Wards and how they compare.

There was no limitation to the amount of people who could sell on the AH but now we have a limitation to the amount of retainers in a Market Ward and for the most part if your retainer isn't in Uldah's Market Wards now it wont be unless you catch someone moving it and you got lucky.

Sure we could go put our retainer up in another Nation and if that is the case it MAY be looked at by those deal finders, but you shouldn't have to sell your items for less because they take longer to be seen or must be looked for and half the time the items in the Wards in other Nations are more expensive.

I understand the idea behind creating Market Wards... However, the Market Wards and Retainer system are a pain at the moment and they have left a bitter taste in the mouth of many currently active players including myself. I spent 30 minutes trying to find a location for my retainer in the wards. I finally found one in the Tanner's Wards... please note I am not selling anything that has to do with skin, leather or animals in general, yet because of the limitations of the Wards I must sell there. The result is penalization.

I am not saying replace with an AH but if they are going to keep this system some of the improvements I would like to see would be:
1. Organization of Retainers in each ward. It's terrible to go in and sometimes your retainer is covered by other NPC's and you can't target it.
2. A symbol if someone is actually selling an item in the right ward. I believe those people should be rewarded for good intentions (or luck).
3. To always pop out by your retainer if you head to the ward they are in. No reason to pop out anywhere else if your buying from the Mercantile.
4. Less Lag.
5. More items on list.
6. Direct Exchange Items to Retainer Bazaar instead of Exchange Items and then View and Manage Bazaar Contents
7. Remove the amount of retainers in each ward or have a set tax for buying and selling and not a benefit and penalty because of a system that cannot accommodate the current active player base.

In regards to those of you who are interested in selling your +1's I wouldn't worry too much if people are searching for the item and type in +1 they will find it.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Camate

2.0 [...] Market Ward

---

Uhh, this is making me sort of nervous. Can we get some concrete details about how the buying/selling system will differ in 2.0 from the current market wards? Because if we still have to muck around with trading items to our retainers before we can sell them and finding a ward with an open space, that's going to be a huge dealbreaker for many players. This is 2012.