Forgotten Trade Master

Trade is a sensitive issue. There are many reasons for never introducing offline trading in POE. The risk of it hurting the economy is to big. Yet spamming trade or getting a shop is for most too much of a bother.

For that reason create a Forgotten Trade Master.

This Master allows you to advertise 1 item per level of the Master up to 8 items. Your Master will be added to the pool of available Trade Masters, but only if you are online. From this pool a Trade Master is randomly chosen just like any other Master and added to the map.

If as a player you meet a Trade Master, he gives you an assignment. If you complete the assignment he will let you know which online player has which offers. If you want the item you can contact the player.

As a bonus to GGG the Trade Master can be customized through microtransactions. That way rich people can show off how wonderful they are.

This is a small addition to current trading. Keeps most of the current practice as it is. And gives GGG the opportunity to test alternative ways of trading.

I like this idea. Besides the very rare occasion a decent unique pops up in a master's purchase screen, quality orbs are the only things really worth purchasing. It's a waste in my opinion. Offering something that players may actually want to buy would be good.