Why further enhancements to market wards?

[viion]

Except it's more like a quest, so here's a quest write up. This applies to Ul'dah specifically but I'll make a quest write up for the other cities eventually.

Have you not played in a while? You search for an item, you dont pick an ward HOPING the item is in it. For example if you want Vintage Robe you'd go to search item > higher tier ward > robe > click on vintage and it lists exactly which retainer has it and which ward there is in, theres no guess work and hoping....

[Chocobits]

Have you not played in a while? You search for an item, you dont pick an ward HOPING the item is in it. For example if you want Vintage Robe you'd go to search item > higher tier ward > robe > click on vintage and it lists exactly which retainer has it and which ward there is in, theres no guess work and hoping....

For gear! Searching for synthesis materials is a mini-quest in itself.

[viion]

For gear! Searching for synthesis materials is a mini-quest in itself.

No its not, you just go to the correct ward and type it is, for example you want Chocobo Feathers, you select Clothiers Ward, then Feather and select Chocobo Feather, it then shows you every retainer and which ward they in! Then the quest begins. Till you can come back and re-initiate the quest.

[Chocobits]

No its not, you just go to the correct ward and type it is, for example you want Chocobo Feathers, you select Clothiers Ward, then Feather and select Chocobo Feather, it then shows you every retainer and which ward they in! Then the quest begins. Till you can come back and re-initiate the quest.

I'm not sure if you're explaining the system to me, or defending it? The former isn't necessary, and the latter is just silly.

Why is there a TYPE of material submenu? What if you don't know what the name of the specific category you're looking for is? We're talking about a brand spanking new player that's starting up the game. FFXI's auction house didn't require an FAQ. "OHhh I get it, so Clothcraft, Leathercraft, Armor, Weapons, and you can sort them by equippable level".

And the multiple tiers of levels, lower middle and upper. Pointless. Put it all in 1 menu and have it sortable by level or stats! We've had that system before in a previous SE MMO incarnation and it worked!

Every submenu you add to FFXIV is another 3-5 second delay. My point in saying "If you luck out and find it" is that hopefully the person doesn't eventually give up and just find an NPC that sells something like what they're looking for.

[viion]

I'm not sure if you're explaining the system to me, or defending it? The former isn't necessary, and the latter is just silly.

Im not defending it, its just you seem not to know how it currently works, and though I am very against MW and seems you are, at least play the game and know how the system works in its current state, then you can bash it, rather than bash what it used to be months ago.