Trade NPC's?

[SuzakuCMX]

So basically an Auction house >.>...

In GW, the crafting system was different and you could dye clothes different colors. Also there were "runes" you could apply to your armor and equipment to give it special stats, or pieces of weapons you could use, and those were able to be sold to the special NPCs.

For example, you could sell a Vial of Blue Dye to the "Dye Trader" for 400 gold, but vending it to a regular merchant NPC would give you 1 gold. The NPC then lists "Vial of Blue Dye" for 1 platinum 100 gold to sell.

It actually worked pretty well as a gold sink since you always got paid less for the dye than other people would pay to have it, and it was much easier than spamming the Trade channel.

As for crafting, basically you just brought different materials to NPCs, chose a recipe, and they would craft the item for you 100% success. Or you could go to the Material Trader or Rare Material Trader and sell the items to him, or buy them from him (you could only buy/sell in stacks of 10).

It probably wouldn't work so well in FFXIV because there are so many crafting materials.