Limited Supply Vendor Item restock timer off

[Lopherus 4]

While it is hard to find hard data on the retail timers (except for cases of wandering vendors who generally restock at each turn), limited supply vendor items should be respawning somewhere between every 15 minutes and maybe an hour or an hour and a half. When I need a limited supply item, I just stay in front of it until it respawns to not miss any cycle, and the waiting times I am used to experience (from back in retail, and other private servers more recently) are well in line with these numbers. 

 

As I type this, I've been standing in front of Geoge Candarte for 2 hours and 2 minutes to buy one copy of Green Leather Armor without any restock happening (no one else came, and I've been watching and checking continuously - currently in windowed mode). This is simply not right for a fairly mundane limited supply item (needed just for 1 blacksmithing pattern), and way, way out of line with my experience for this item which I buy on every server. Similarly bugged respawn timers are probably to blame for insane AH prices such as 150g for a Runed Arcanite Rod recipe - this is simply not right, and not intended (on retail Blizzard servers). Significant markups happened in retail too, but not in the 1000%+ range (the markup for the one copy of my item on the AH is currently x10, which is also unusually high).

 

Keep in mind too that the meaning of what a 'blizz-like' restock timer is, is up for debate. If an item, say, is supposed to restock every 30 minutes in retail, and retail has a population cap of about 2.5k; and if Elysium PvP (where i experience this) has an active population of between 6k and over 10k, then the availability of this limited supply item is not blizz-like. The timers should be appropriately reduced - which I realize isn't an easy issue to address, but still worth pointing out. If, however, the timers are actually significantly worse than in retail, then on a highly populated server like this one it turns into an unnecessary nightmare. That is if the item even restocks other than at server reset because I still have to see it in stock. 

 

Edited February 4, 2017 by Lopherus

[Lopherus 4]

P.S.: I gave up after 2hours and 15 minutes sharp. Considering that it had been out of stock for an unknown time before I started waiting for a restock, whatever the restock timer is...it's way, way off. 

P.P.S: I read somewhere that on the bug tracker page, there should be a button "Add an item" (or such). Despite being logged in, the page has no such button for me - if someone could transfer this post to the bug section, I'd appreciate. If the button doesn't exist, I suggest adding it.

Edited February 4, 2017 by Lopherus

[ekztal 1]

I came on here looking for an answer for this.  Looks like nothing has changed.  I've been sitting in front of Lilly the Enchanting Vendor in Silverpine for hours in windowed mode.  Still the same sold out recipes...