Would it be possible to overhaul the bazaar trade UI with some more features? There’s so much potential there for a powerful item finding system, but right now I feel like it’s almost a sort of stealth-RNG where you’re basically just forced to manually go through each page one at a time, hovering over each item and hoping you’re lucky.
For example, it would be lovely to see any of these:
- Searching for (filtering and sorting) by the stats of items (uniques and sets, especially), not just their affixes Last Epoch on GeForce NOW - March 14 @ 06-24-44 PM · CleanShot Cloud
- Boolean AND/OR searches (or weighted groups) like in the Path of Exile trade website (Trade - Path of Exile - March 14 @ 06-22-51 PM · CleanShot Cloud), e.g. search for items that have 3 particular affixes, and the last 1 could either be X or Y affix
- The ability to keep the “MORE” header always active so we don’t have to expand it all the time. All the really useful search params are in there anyway, not above the fold. Last Epoch on GeForce NOW - March 14 @ 06-24-07 PM · CleanShot Cloud
- Can the filters be sticky when browsing different vendors? Usually, you’re shopping by build anyway and limited by your MG rank, so if you cap it to 1 legendary potential, for example, you probably want to keep that for all the searches…? A “remember these filters” checkbox would be super nice.
- Showing additional custom columns for different status in the table view: Last Epoch on GeForce NOW - March 14 @ 06-25-54 PM · CleanShot Cloud
- Adding an ability to “bookmark” / “add to compare” certain items to mull them over together, instead of trying to find them again in the hundreds of pages
Alternatively, would you consider opening up the trade system API so community members can make a trade browser site? Even if there’s no backend filtering added, just being able to fetch the paginated listings means a lot can be done in the frontend. There wouldn’t even need to be any auth/transactions handled there, just relatively recently listings.
Once an item is found, ideally there would be some way to then copy a listing/item ID and then buy it in-game, of course…
Thanks!