Quote Originally Posted by Tsuga View Post
And even with all of these fixes, we would still have to:

a. Zone, and run to retainers for every single item we want to purchase, sometimes sending us to multiple zones and NPCs just to purchase a simple gear set - as illustrated in this example:



b. Deal with the fact that we probably won't be able to set up a retainer in the more popular wards, because presumably hundreds of thousands of people would be trying to sell their crap on multiple retainers.

and lastly,

c. Deal with the fact that we have to find our storage NPC - assuming we DO get it set up in the wards - among a forest of NPCs. And by your logic, the wards should be BIGGER, meaning we'd have to search EVEN MORE.

Not to mention there would be even more NPCs in the room that don't spawn unless they're in a three foot radius from your character.

Again, the system is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed because of the different wards, and because of the retainers. The only way to "fix" the wards, would be to get rid of the wards. Since so many people like them (not really), I am (and many others are) proposing an AH as an alternative to wards.
It's going to have to happen anyway probably because it seems that the servers are choking from all of the activity in them.