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This is a design choice they are continuing to stand by. Markets in TESO are supposed to be "localized", not a unified global free-for-all. You can join up to five guilds, and plenty of guilds exist only to provide a market place to their members. Guilds can also open their markets to non-members by owning a keep in Cyrodiil (this has problems related to PvP, however). They will also make a limited number of city-based market stalls available to guilds in a future patch, a feature that should be familiar to Wushu players.
The global auction house in Guild Wars 2 may have been convenient to players looking to quickly buy or sell, but it was terrible from a community-building standpoint, and MMOs are supposed to be about community, after all.
Oh yea community, that reminds me, the main story, fighters guild, and mages guild questlines are all solo only, that was another gripe.
In my experience nobody ever browses the guild stores in the Cyrodyll keeps, but that doesn't matter much as the trading guilds by and large are not taking keeps in PvP. If they are they are just claiming them the instant the keep flips before an actual PvP guild that took the keep can.
The trading stalls is something I was looking forward to, as currently all my trading guilds hit 500 members awhile ago, and now nothing lower level sells at all because all these people in the guild are leveling up and as they do lower level mats get more and more worthless. Nobody seems interested in spending gold on mats for an Alt. Stalls would hopefully solve that but again, who knows when it's happening.
But there is still the problem with the embarrassing guild store system. Can't search by item name, can't search by veteran rank (you search for something level 50 and it just returns everything vet rank 1-10) you can search by certain types, but not all items fall into those types (and it's bugged so that sometimes it ignores the filters you set entirely.) All the guild store addons work by just paging through the store one page at a time and then bringing up their OWN interface displaying the data it read instead of working with what is already there. Something is wrong there.
Fighters guild abilities are supposed to be the counter to werewolves and vampires, and both have their weaknesses beyond that (vampires are weak to fire). Both are supposed to be an alternative to playing a "normal", not an "I win" button every player feels compelled to take, hence why they are supposed to have extreme strengths as well as extreme weaknesses. (Also, not every archer uses poison or disease.)
Every archer needs to have the venom shot skill if they want to level bow, it won't be in their bar to gain skill with the weapon if they don't. You don't gain skill with just using the weapon alone when a skill is available, if you do it's so insignificant to be undetectable. Do they have to use it after they get another bow skill? No, but every archer knows it.
And yes indeed fighters guild is made to kill them, but is Werewolf worth those weaknesses? Not in the least. It costs absurd amounts of ultimate to use, bottoming out at 900 normally, 600 if you get a rare full set bonus that reduces the cost of werewolf, that requires so many pieces of the set it precludes the use of any other set bonus.
When you do use it it lasts all of 30 seconds, a little more using a devour ability that only works on dead humanoids, and barely increases your time by as long as it takes to use devour, doesn't let you use any of your normal abilities during it, is buggy as shit, gives about the same damage bonus as the aggressive warhorn ultimate (that costs only 250 ultimate and affects you and
20! of your allies instead of just you, and also buffs stamina and magicka to boot). And to top it off you have the vulnerabilities even when you aren't in werewolf form.
There is no logical reason to use it, the negatives far outweigh the benefits, and those benefits are done better and cheaper by other things without the weaknesses. Werewolf isn't an I win button by any means, it's an "I lose" button, except in the very rare case that you managed to build up enough ult to use it then it's a "Maybe you should silver bolts or turn undead me or I might have used my effectively 30 minute long cooldown to beat you" button.
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