We need an AH

[Dargoth_Draconia]

No we do not.

Current Marketward Transaction

Enter wards
Search for Item
Find Seller
Go to ward
Pick up Item

The quickest you can do it is approximately 30 seconds. The longest I've ever searched for a specific item is less then 2 minutes.


FFXI > Blind Auction
Run to AH
Search through item lists for item you want
Find item you want (100 Listed)
Check Item History
Bid for item 10% lower then item history:
wait 5 seconds
Fail
Bid for Item 5% lower then item history:
wait 5 seconds
Fail
Bid for item same as last item History:
wait 5 seconds
fail
Re-check Item History, Recent item has been sold since last checked. 15% more then one before it.
Bid for item same price as new last one sold :
wait 5 seconds
Fail
Bid for item 5% more then last one sold:
wait 5 seconds
Success, Item delivered to inventory.


WoW
Go to Auction House.
Filter through items you want. See that everything in your level is posted for prices that are way above your characters possible gold at your level.
Find one that is decent. Bid on it.
Wait 2 days. Lose Bid.
Look again
Find new item. Bid.
wait 4 hours. Win Bid.
Wait hour for item to deliver to mail box.
Find mailbox to pick it up.


Auctions Fail. The only difference between the Marketward and an Auction house is the marketward has no Auction. Blind or Timed.

Now for WoW they do have a buy it now but guess what.

Search for item
Buy It Now
Go to Mailbox
Pick up Item

YOU STILL HAVE TO GO PICK UP THE ITEM.

Your steps are a little too many, the quickest I have gotten an item from the wards is 1 minute and not any quicker. AH even FFXI style you go to AH, pick the item type, pick item category, (use sort function if you haven't alread), simple scroll to the item by level or alphabetical order, usually takes me in FFXI about 30 seconds to find what I am looking for, especially if you already know the system, no loading screens, simple click and buy. (I do admit that sometimes the transaction could drag out because of the way the FFXI item history worked and didn't know the flat price for the item, easily fixable though)

WoW style is even easier, if you know part of the name of the item you want like poison potions, you type poi or poison in the search bar and all items with that name pop up. Or you can search in the same FFXI manner, that takes about 10 seconds. True you have to pick up the item from the mailbox but it is usually outside the AH or 20 steps away and not inconvient, you pass by 100 mailboxes anywhere you go in a city. (Using Buyout option and not bidding btw)

Also as he said it is not about market wards suck or anything of the sort, just simply saying give us an AH because it is still more convenient no matter how you look at it. Personally I say when they give us an AH keep retainers around as well because no doubt you will have limited space probably to put items up on AH like FFXI, and still want to bazaar sell stuff on your retainer.

[TheVedis]

Your steps are a little too many, the quickest I have gotten an item from the wards is 1 minute and not any quicker. AH even FFXI style you go to AH, pick the item type, pick item category, (use sort function if you haven't alread), simple scroll to the item by level or alphabetical order, usually takes me in FFXI about 30 seconds to find what I am looking for, especially if you already know the system, no loading screens, simple click and buy. (I do admit that sometimes the transaction could drag out because of the way the FFXI item history worked and didn't know the flat price for the item, easily fixable though)

WoW style is even easier, if you know part of the name of the item you want like poison potions, you type poi or poison in the search bar and all items with that name pop up. Or you can search in the same FFXI manner, that takes about 10 seconds. True you have to pick up the item from the mailbox but it is usually outside the AH or 20 steps away and not inconvient, you pass by 100 mailboxes anywhere you go in a city. (Using Buyout option and not bidding btw)

Also as he said it is not about market wards suck or anything of the sort, just simply saying give us an AH because it is still more convenient no matter how you look at it. Personally I say when they give us an AH keep retainers around as well because no doubt you will have limited space probably to put items up on AH like FFXI, and still want to bazaar sell stuff on your retainer.

as true as all this is
people will still state your wrong, and your times are off, and that you dont know what your talking about


people need to just get over it, if anything they just need to streamline/adjust the system a bit more and itl be fine(such as showing hq gear in searches)

every game makes you run around a bit to get your item, the difference is here you get it at the store, not at your home after you finish shopping and run back to it


all the menus, searching for the items you want, etc etc all is there, so you can not in any way shape or form even count the "menus" as something other games dont have, cuz they do!