Marketplace orders - specifying augments?

I have used the Marketplace and have to say I'm happy with the way it works. It is a very cool ides! However, I wonder - when I ask to get gear crafted, is there a way to ask for augments in your item? I was unable to figure out a way to do this, and I believe it's important when ordering level 50 items. I personally would not want to order a crafted level 50 purple item without getting a good augment installed in it.

Now, some enterprising crafters might go ahead and throw an augment in the item, and that's great, but it's not always obvious what stats people want. So to avoid any difficulties, I think it would be great if, when placing an order for an item, you could somehow specify the augment you'd like in a crafted item - by stats would be fine (i.e., wisdom/endurance, dodge, intelligence, int/spell crit). Unfortunately, this proposal leaves the quality of the augment (purple, blue, green) out of it.

One alternative (which would make things easier for the crafters) would be for the person placing the order to specify ("I have an augment to use in this") when placing the order. Then, when the crafter claims that workorder, the customer would use in-game mail to send the augment to the crafter. Crafter makes the item and sends it to the customer and everyone is happy.

I'm sure there are other schemes which would work, so I'm just throwing out these ideas. However, the base idea that workorders should be able to specify an augment is, I believe, sound.

What I usually do; ask in guildchat if anyone can make [Awesomesauce], tell them I got the material and the augment. Then while we are finding each other/making the item I ask if they want me to put it up on the website so they can claim it. Good idea to make sure you have enough credits beforehand. I get my [Epic Awesomesauce] and if they want it or not, contribution.

Right now the Augments system is under development, Master elements has the right approach for the time being.

Good to know, thanks for the info.

I rarely (if ever) fill weapon orders without at least some kind of augment. I have about 32 slots of stacks of various augments - they're there to be used, so if I claim an order you place you will get something. Now, that being said, if you want the 'best of the best' (300 skill augments, +5 to a stat usually) the best approach is to order in guild. If you don't have the materials but you do have guild points and a specific augment you want I'm more than happy to have you place an order on the site and claim it very quickly. If you are willing to supply mats and augments, just send me a tell if I'm online to verify that I have the recipe.