Quote Originally Posted by Mr_Gyactus View Post
I was thinking about market wards.

Being a NPC, it's possibile to add some nice feature to a retainer.

1. to send message through the NPC pearl. For example "Master, I sold XXXX"

2. to register /tell messages from players. We can use that for request of items, offers for items...
3. to give some information about the master or other. For example "I have 50 goldsmith, if you need something /tell me" or "items are +1"
4. to buy. We can put a max offer for an item and a player can directly sell it to the retainer.
5. Able to synthetize ingredients (when it is not possible to fail).
6. a better structure in the inventory. more subcategories (ALL, armor, weapons, crystals, plants, leathers...)
7. I don't think we really need 3 market wards. We can fuse these together. The problem can be the loading time.

Others?
That's an easy one.... remove and replace with an AH.

Everything in one spot... no need to run around.
Never look for an item again, go walk to the retainer just to realize someone just bought it before you.
No more instability as the game wont need to render 50 retainers in one place anymore... just 3-4 NPC in a builing/counter...

Easy, userfriendlly, faster, etc etc etc... AH for the win!