It is time to get a 3rd free Retainer

[Snow_Princess]

I remember the search feature added to the wards. But I wasn't sure if they had scrapped it and just kept a UI for lore (what a waste). Or if the old system is still present in the background.

It is funny. How hard is it to build an auction house? Yet SE tries to make it harder. I remember the reason from 1.0 for no AH. It stops gil sellers. Delusional at best, detrimental to player base at worst.

When 1.0 first released they had 1 ward.. best way I can explain it that was not in 1.0 is housing now. Picture hosing with 1 ward, no sub ward, you just enter it, there be no reason for a search. After a while they added more wards, just like our housing. Now after that came out, you got a list to what ward to go to, metal , heavy armor, etc (forgot all the ward names) and the search fuction was for finding retainers that was selling the item you where looking for. So you type in what you are looking for, or search it (like our mb pretty much) and ill tell you where the retainer was that sold the item, then you physically go to the retainer to buy it. Same way for your retainers, if you physically go to them, you trade them without taking them off the search. The only way items was pulled down from it, if you where interacting with the retainer's bazzar to put more items up. If you where simply trading items with your retainer, it did not pull your sales off the search.

That is why 2.0+ the retainer UI makes no sense, it fit 1.0's system, but that is no longer true.

Also the place/hallway/path (whatever you want to call it) to enter the wards to an extent still exist, except uladh. Now the little hallway path branch that went to them does not exist, while uldah's GC is in part of that area. (where the GC is, if that wall was not there where the FC chest is, that would be the entrance to the wards in uldah.)

that used to be the zone to uldah's selling wards