Guild bank

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The guild vault without being purchased

A guild bank is an in-game storage interface for holding items and money to be shared among guild members.

Official guild banks

Blizzard-supported guild banks were introduced with patch 2.3 to help reduce player-created guild banks, which were prone to Terms of Use violations due to account sharing.

Features

The guild vault seen by the guild leader
  • Access to the guild bank via a guild vault object next to the standard bankers in the game.
  • 8 purchasable tabs which have 98 item slots each; bags are not required for the slots. The price for the first tab is 100g, and increases for each successive tab, 250g, 500g, 1000g, 2500g, 5000g, 10000g, 20000g, for a grand total of 39350g.
  • Storage of money.
  • Players with the appropriate permissions can store items and money for use by the rest of the guild. The guild master can allocate different permissions to each tab as required.
  • Repair NPCs have a 'pay for repairs from guild funds' button based on guild permissions (up to withdraw limit).
  • Advanced permission system (defaults to controlled by guild leader) that can allow, disallow, and limit the interaction (deposit/withdraw items or money) per tab, per guild rank. Withdrawal limits can be set up.
  • Access logs in-game showing the 25 latest money- or item-related withdrawals/deposits per tab.
  • Web access and display via World of Warcraft Armory.[1] Requires login.[2]
  • Where to find the guild vaults.

Available storage and costs

Tab Cost Cost per new slot Total Slots Total Cost Total Cost per Slot Required Achievement
1 100g 1g 2s 4c 98 100g 1g 2s 4c
2 250g 2g 55s 10c 196 350g 1g 78s 57c
3 500g 5g 10s 20c 294 850g 2g 89s 12c
4 1000g 10g 20s 41c 392 1850g 4g 71s 94c
5 2500g 25g 51s 2c 490 4350g 8g 87s 76c
6 5000g 51g 2s 4c 588 9350g 15g 90s 14c
7 10000g 102g 4s 8c 686 19350g 28g 20s 69c  [Guild Level 5]
8 20000g 204g 8s 16c 784 39350g 50g 19s 13c Stay Classy (Alliance) Stay Classy (Horde)

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Patch 11.0.2 issue

When patch 11.0.2 was released, some players' guild banks had items disappear. A support article acknowledged the issue and that it was being looked into. On 20 September 2024, the support article was unpublished and an update was posted in the US General Discussion forum:

Guild Bank Missing Items Update | 2024-09-20 13:03 | Blizzard Entertainment Linxy

About a week after we launched patch 11.0.2 in August, we began receiving reports of an issue where some players were discovering items missing from their guild banks.

As we investigated over the next couple of days, we found the culprit—a technical update that was made to support cross-realm guilds. An unexpected bug caused one of our maintenance processes to make some items disappear. Many of these items were related to professions materials from prior expansions, but it was possible for players to lose other items from their guild banks as well.

For the last few weeks, we've been packing up the missing items that we're able to identify as lost by this process, and we will soon mail those to the guild leader character for each affected guild.

Due to how some of the data was lost, we’ve reached a point where the result will be an incomplete restoration for some guilds, and we do not have a way to restore the remaining missing items for them.

We apologize for that and for the long wait here. We really appreciate your patience as we've worked through this difficult issue.

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Restoration system mail went out to guild masters several hours later, however roll-out of this approach has had its own issues with reports of some items taken from the mailbox as being inappropriately changed to soulbound or looted in less than pristine condition (contrary to when it was still in the mail). So far as of 21 September 2024, many players have reported receiving a small fraction of what was missing from their guild bank, while still others have stated receiving no mail at all despite also having been affected by the bug.

Patch changes

  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Maximum increased to 9,999,999g (up from 999,999g 99s 99c).
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2014-12-19): Guild Bank Money Logs should now be able to correctly display records of transactions greater than 215,000 gold.
  • Bc icon.gif Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Added.

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