Merchants Guild Isn't Worth It IMO

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I think the Merchants Guild is only useful for getting early leveling uniques, and once you've bought all the low level stuff to speed level your lowbie alts, I think switching to Circle of Fortune is the better option. Prices for everything are wildly inconsistent. In the span of a day prices can go from 5 million gold for an item down to 200k or even 0 for a build-essential item. This community doesn't set a standard value for anything, causing prices to be everywhere with some items ranging anywhere from 0 gold to 99 million and everywhere in-between. Every day the value of LP items drops. Three days ago 2 LP items were worth a decent chunk of change. Today they're all basically free, save for the ones that are used in the super meta sweaty builds. Even that that though LP item prices are still plummeting. I feel like if you don't make bank within that first week of a new season or cycle or whatever this game wants to call it, then prices are just going to keep dropping and dropping until basically everything is worthless.

I think the prices being super wild and the market tanking the value of things every day is a mixture of a few reasons. First being that Faction Rep can be gained by just throwing things up for 0 gold. Secondly because people don't have the patience to wait a few hours or a day for their stuff to sell so regardless of an items value they list it for dirt-ass cheap just so they sell theirs first because there's a mentality in the community going around that "It can't be resold so it's fine if it's cheaper.". And lastly the GUI is total buttcheeks. The GUI is so bad it makes every post-run trip to the Markets a 20-40 minute ordeal because you not only gotta manually search for every stat, but you also gotta break the DaVinci Code figuring out how much your combination of stat rolls on an item is worth among a sea of items with the same stats priced between 0 and 99 BILLION. The filtering, sorting, and searching options in the Market GUI is abysmal.

After that first week of a new season/cycle it feels like jumping ship to CoF is the better call.

[LAW | Semi_The_Shadow]

I have enjoyed the merchants guild and I am legacy... I use it from leveling alts to gearing out for end game builds....

However as numbers drop in amount of people playing I think merchants guild is gonna take a huge hit to how worthwhile it actually is....

I think really the option for both should have been made to everyone.... everyone can level merchants guild and everyone can level circle of fortune.... only difference is you cant sell circle of fortune items on merchants guild....

I like merchants guild but I think there is gonna have to be some retuning to how the 2 factions work

[AH-1 Cobra]

Any game with an auction house turns into this type of mess, they simply need to do away with it, and rework the merchant's guild into something else that's competitive with circle of fortune.

[kongkim]

I like it. Will take it anytime.
But it do have its flaws that i hope get fixed.

[Bludbonez]

Until they completely rework the Merchants Guild I will not touch it. Perhaps removing the Gold system in place and going back to a more stable system like a barter system would do wonders for a game like this.