The vendor-window desperately needs a new UI too!

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The vendor-window (you know, the one you see when opening the General Goods vendor for example) is beside the windows like talents, spellbook, etc… also a very important window that is used all the time. And that’s why I’m a little surprised that Blizzard doesn’t have an overhaul planned yet for the vendor window. It’s still the same window as 20 years ago and it got only some little tweaks over all the years.

What do you think? Should Blizzard overhaul this window and design a much better one?

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I think updating it to make it feel more modern is needed, so yes to an updated vendor interface window.

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I like it as it is. Not really sure what they could do to improve it - feels like it would be changing for the sake of changing.

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This, there’s really nothing extra needed in the vendor window.

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My tism can’t handle anymore changes for a while.

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I’m not sure how you’d change it, make bigger maybe so you can see more listings?

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Can’t say that I’m a fan of either window you mentioned. They’re…not really suiting? Big, inconvenient, the spell book magically stays small…and become big again, highlighted abilities don’t always make sense (as in…not missing, or when sky riding), your pending changes (talents) immediately get committed when clicking the hero talents (annoying), …

Those are actually examples of UX failures if you ask me.

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I also hate the new spellbook. They said we are getting more UI customisation options in the future, hopefully that means we can resize the silly thing.

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I’d love to be able to just type how much of something I want instead of using archaic push buttons or spam clicking while I watch my bag fill up.

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But… you can do that?

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I could’ve sworn that required addon functionality. Perhaps the thing I’ve been using has been superceded without my realising.

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Yeah you just click on the number and type in how much you want. It is a little inconsistent though, sometimes it will only let you buy stacks of 20, other times up to 200, other times 1000… they definitely need to sort that.

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Lemme show an example to draw inspiration from…

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/marketplace/presentation_assets/000/345/953/large/file.jpg?1587126434

Edit: A few more

https://img.craftpix.net/2020/08/RPG-and-MMO-UI-X15.webp

(Personally I would like to have a more transparent option ingame like ESO:

https://imgur.com/hY76Dsv

Not precisely a WoW-similar style but good enough to get the picture.

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Adding a scroll wheel too instead of pages, like how it looks with professions when scrolling down.

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You can just scroll through the page with the mouse wheel

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I am thinking of a ton of quality of life improvements to make shopping at a vendor much better. Like:

  • Make the item box (item icon, name and price) wider so longer names fit better.
  • Add a 3rd column of items to view more at once.
  • Remove the pages and add a scrollbar with ‘infinite scrolling’-tech.
  • Add sorting option to sort by type, lowest/highest price, alphabetical order, etc…
  • Add a search-bar for specific item searching.
  • Add a shop filter (with a toggle to show/hide) and …
    • Move class filter there.
    • Add “show buyable only” to show only the items you got the currency for.
    • Add checkbox filters to show items with: “Gold prices”, “Special currency X”, “Special currency Y”, etc…
    • Add checkbox filters to show items that are: “weapons”, “armor”, “consumables”, “vanity”, “reagents”, etc…
    • Add filter options to show minimal item quality.
  • Add a dropdown option to your current currency box to show easily the other currencies you have that are used by the vendor.
  • Add a shopping basket feature so you can easily buy multiple items in one go. Including increase/decrease buttons at stackable items. At buyout it shows all the currencies you need to proceed.
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True… But aren’t nobody got time for dat :joy:

Jokes, but yet, that is also true.

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@Ayukama,
Nobody has time to search for that one specific item. A better UI can decrease the time needed by giving better search tools.

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I see no difference in the first two to what we already have. I prefer seeing the icons as we have in WoW than having to find it with the words in ESO.

I’d like a search ability that’s about it.

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