In our on-going work to improve the game for players and to reduce the barrier-to-entry (that is, the learning curve and the difficulty of getting very far into the game) we wanted to run an idea past you. Currently, if a player wants new armor or weapons or even spells they must seek out other players or learn to make it themselves. This can often be difficult if no-one is online who can make the item or who knows it. Or worse, if the player would have to spend many days learning to make the items themselves by joining a school and leveling it.

One solution to this would be to add non-teched items to existing Trainers so that players could purchase un-teched items for immediate use. Only items that are also sold as formulas would be available (so, for example, an Armorsmith Trainer would only sell Ringmail and Scalemail, not Chainmail or Platemail) and these would be un-teched.

This would still leave a market for teched items as well as for the looted variety of items. But it would provide a mechanism for players who are new to the game or in the middle tiers to obtain basic equipment for their level quickly, while still providing a market for existing players by providing techniqued equipment.

Questions, comments, feedback welcome. Would you support this enhancement?

A. Yes
B. No