Trading Post Express Helper for Guild Wars 2

Trading Post Express Helper

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Guild Wars 2 is one of the better MMO games out there. It is free-to-play. It has a good value to those who choose to pay for additional content. The game has frequent updates. There are mechanisms which allow the most novice players to play the same content as the most experienced of players - with the novices not feeling useless and the experienced not feel over-powered.

ArenaNet had opened up an API to those who wished to write 3rd party programs for Guild Wars 2 and I thought it might be interesting to play with the API. Turns out, it is quite informative and wrote a few programs for my personal benefit.

Naturally, why not standardize the code, polish up the interface and then release the software? The results are below:

A list of common prices on the GW2 Trading Post

What Trading Post Express Helper does is download the current prices and presents the information in a more visually pleasing manner, as you can plainly see. Items are chosen based on popularity and desirability.

Notes:

This is NOT intended as a "day trading" tool. ArenaNet has taken some steps to diminish day trading;

Prices fetched through the API are updated every three (3) minutes. So as a result, you may or may not get the price listed when polled.

There is a 5% listing fee and a 10% trading fee. This 15% fee makes day trading impractical. This makes sense as well. Do we really want a game where a one copper change in price will trigger a few million transactions going from one bulk trading account to another? This does nothing for the game, and causes a large load on the servers which is really not needed.

version .49 - Added lots of End of Dragons stuff. (Aurene Legendaries, Jade Bot). Some GUI improvements Fixed an issue which Microsoft deemed important but is really useless.
version .48 - Finally got the GEMS to COIN conversion to work. Some minor tweaks in preperation for the End of Dragons Expansion. Updated WvW to reflect the November 2021 changes.
version .47 - Added three (3) items. This brings the total to 351 unique items.
version .46 - Added Episodic Items. Added seven (7) more items bringing the total to 348 unique items. Some cosmetic chamges were made as well as touching up some minor issues.
version .45 - Added an Update Checker. Added more items. Added a Wikiprice page to link to those pages on the wiki which already have prices. Cleaned up the presentation. Added Dragon Bash items to the Festival. Now has 341 unique items listed.
version .44 - Polished the WvW Tab. Added more glyphs. Added Amalgamated Draconic Lodestone. Now lists 368 items.
version .43 - Added a PvP tab. Added a Key tab. Added some glyphs.
version .42 - Fixed some formatting issues. Fixed a couple of items which gave incorrect results.
version .41 - Added a WvW Pip table. Added legendary rune/sigil recipes. Fixed some formating glitches.
version .40 - Added Festival tab for seasonal items. Added new seeds introduced in legendary cooking - level 500 Chef. Added new glyphs.
version .35 - Added seasonal items - Trick or Treat Bags and Divine Lucky Envelopes. Added Amalgamated Gemstones and the Volatile Magic glyph.
version .34 - Added more glyphs. Added the Lucent Motes, Symbols and Charms from rune/sigil salvaging.
version .33 - Added more glyphs.
version .32 - Added more glyphs.
version .31 - Added the glyphs.
version .30 - Added the swimming infusions
version .20 - Added some color to make the presentation tastier.
version .11 - Fixed some minor errors.
version .10 - Initial release.

Home Instance:

A full home instance of 63 nodes consists of:

Gem Store Purchases

Black Lion Chest Upgrades

Achievement Unlocks

Vendor Offerings

The Home Instance tab gives the value of each item mined in a full home instance.

Some items give a known quantity so its value can be easily calculated; such as the gift from the Winterday Tree. Others give variable amounts, such as the Candy Corn node. In such cases, average loot drop rate is used to calculate the value.

Cloth and Leather nodes can give 0-9 of each tier offered. For these, we are assuming 2 of each node. This is because the drop rate is 1-3 pieces, averaging 2 pieces, of each tier. This can happen 3 times per node. Again, we assume each tier is selected once although on a particular day, you can receive anywhere from 0-9.

This calculation does NOT include three (3) plant nodes which can give 1-2 of a wide variety of plants; basically every core plant can be obtained through these nodes. As a result, it is infeasible to include such items as they range from the very inexpensive to worthwhile.

This calculation also does NOT include items which are account-bound. How can you place a value on those items?

This calculation also does NOT include the Found Bandit Chest nor the three (3) Heart of Thorn chests. These items require a key to open them. In addition, the items contained in the chest vary widely which makes it difficult to properly evaluate.

As a result, values given in the HOME INSTANCE calculations should be taken as a minimum and not a maximum.

About the Feline Airline Guild on Guild Wars 2

Feline Airline is a casual and generalized PvE guild. Games are meant to be enjoyed and not feel like a part-time job.

Feline Airline does appreciate representation; but does NOT believe in MANDATORY representation. All that we care about is that our members truly care about the well-being of the guild and works towards that end. We have a Facebook Page. If you wish an invite to the guild; please send an e-mail to (the guild's name) @ gmail.com.

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