15 Oct 2007 at 06:49 - 46
With GW:EN released, I feel that the following items could also make use of traders:
GW:EN consumables. For the people who don't want to use them this will let them be sold quickly (I'm already seeing people selling perfect salvage kits), for the people with no access to the correct crafter or with no spare skill points it will let them buy them easily. Even if the trader is located within GW:EN, it will still help stabilise the price of the consumables for people without GW:EN. Though with less being available via the trade spam, it might make it harder for players without GW:EN to buy them unless they have a friend who can access the trader.
So I'd suggest adding the following to a consumable trader:
- Essence of Celerity
- Scroll of Resurrection
- Star of Transference
- Perfect Salvage Kit
- Armor of Salvation
- Powerstone of Courage
- Grail of Might
People who get these items via quest rewards and don't plan to use them should take care of building up the initial stock. This would also allow us to easily see what the GW community thinks a skill point is worth in gold, which would be an interesting, but rather worthless, thing to know.
Collector tokens for GW:EN armor pieces. With most collector items the price will stay at the min price because there are more being found than used. However with the GW:EN armor collectable items not only are they used in much higher amounts, but they also are the only way to acquire the items you trade them for. So these should acquire a stable price above the minimum, and will also let people know that they have some use. These items are:
- Diessa Chalice
- Golden Rin Relic
- Superb Charr Carving
- Destroyer Core
- Glacial Stone
Having to buy them one at a time will naturally be annoying for people needing 250 of them and the initial stockup could take some time. I have not included Bison Championship Tokens because they are easily and reliably acquired, and you only need 5.
I also doubt that it will be worth having the trader handle Stone Grawl Necklaces or Honeycombs because compared to the Powerstone, Honeycombs are rather weak.