Warband bank is HUGE failure.

[Twdft]

It is annoying that it doesn't work with work orders. I can summon the bank so it's a workaround, but they need to fix it or make the warband bank summon a 5m cd.

Yeah, I can craft anything for myself with mats out of the warband bank but work orders can not use it. Very annoying.

[Powerogue]

I kind of wish it had a few more sorting categories or they dialed back the cost of that last tab (2.5m??? o_O) but it's a genuinely incredible feature. I love that you can also access it from any bank, adding additional value to things like Jeeves and the argent pony bridle, or simply the dalaran/garrison hearthstones and just hearth back. All things that are significantly more convenient than logging out, going to the bank alt, finding and mailing things. Now the bank alt just holds the things I want to auction, and maybe a bit of surplus, so their inventory is a lot less overwhelmed and their job is a lot easier without me having to filter between the two (sell pile vs. use pile) every time I log into them.

Best feature. Only other criticism is the "unique" items apparently bug and turn invisible, so I just avoid putting any unique items in there.

[thunderdragon2]

On the warbank window itself it says deposit all warbound items

ah i dosnr cover reagents then i see

[Loveliest]

Yeah I noticed you can't do work orders from warbank. I only have one 80. I used the summon warbank to take out the mats, but still inconvenient.

[Ereb]

ah i dosnr cover reagents then i see

Like right next to the deposit warbound items button is a checkbox that says to include reagents

[Earlinde]

its same like guild bank for alts

No, it isn't. You need signatures and gold to pay for those sigs for a guild bank, and that also requires the time to get those sigs. The warband bank requires none of that and is also private for you, unlike a guild bank that is meant for many people on different accounts.

Also I cant make guild orders using reagents from Warband bank. If you got like 8 alts, handling reagents is very annoying.

It's better, but not perfect. Blizzard didn't create the warband bank with the concept of alt-guilds in mind, they created for those that don't create alt-guilds to have a smoother way to share and access mats and warband bound items, as well as gold.

The Warband bank is a pretty nice feature as-is, but there is room for QoL improvements. However, to say it is a "HUGE failure" is hyperbole.

[Twdft]

I kind of wish it had a few more sorting categories

You can type "alchemy" into the search bar and all items usable with alchemy will be highlighted in the warband bank and your bags. Push the sort button first and most of the stuff will be stacked together.

[Woodtable]

Is it? Seems fine to me

[Swarzsinne]

yeah I like it simply because I'm NOT a crazy master crafter type and I can setup a tab to dump all of my BoE reagents just so I can tinker around with a bit of crafting when I feel like it. I don't have to move mats from one alt to another which is super tedious. I just wish in the future Blizz would come off it's restriction on player-power items not being warbound. If I want to funnel all my mats and crests to one toon so be it.

If they want to limit gaming the system for limited currency such as certain seals and crests they could just give an option upon quest completion. You can either choose ONE Warbound crest or seal or whatever that Is locked to your account OR a BoP crest that only THAT character can use. This should only be a thing for stuff that if you only played one toon could only be done in several weeks of playing. Like when you make an item that requires 4 crests but you can only get 1 per week so you would need 4 weeks of earning that currency to make the item. But for almost everything else it shouldn't matter because if I have 8 toons and play a different one each day I'm still playing the same amount in the actual game just not on the same character. Many times in other games I have funneled power ups to one particular toon.

The explanation I've seen around stuff like limiting power progression items is it slowly becomes "mandatory" for progression guilds. Yeah, they are designing for a somewhat smaller percentage of the playerbase, but I get it. It's a time gate in one way, but it's also keeping others from feeling like they need a full suite of alts to maximize their power gains as fast as possible. So it's a double edged sword. If you satisfy one group, you'll piss off the other.

My inclination is that it is healthier for the game for stuff like that to be tied to a specific character. Either that or they'd have to have an account wide hard cap on how much you can earn per week.

[Zodiark]

The explanation I've seen around stuff like limiting power progression items is it slowly becomes "mandatory" for progression guilds. Yeah, they are designing for a somewhat smaller percentage of the playerbase, but I get it. It's a time gate in one way, but it's also keeping others from feeling like they need a full suite of alts to maximize their power gains as fast as possible. So it's a double edged sword. If you satisfy one group, you'll piss off the other.

My inclination is that it is healthier for the game for stuff like that to be tied to a specific character. Either that or they'd have to have an account wide hard cap on how much you can earn per week.

Yeah I know I totally get it. Been playing MMORPGs for 25 years. Since EverQuest. I know that if you leave a gateway open for that type of stuff then there WILL be people to exploit it to the detriment of the casual player who might just use it to boost one toon so they could pop into a piece of harder group content now and then.
As you say it's a double edge sword. Maybe like you say, if there was a cap for how much you could earn per week that might not be such a bad idea. Just kind of spitballing these ideas. Also. They had a system where I believe you could purchase tokens that wee BoA but there was a loss for the purchase. Something like 100 BoA tokens cost 200. So that way if a toon can't use anymore they could funnel them down to other Alts.

[Schizoide]

Yeah I noticed you can't do work orders from warbank. I only have one 80. I used the summon warbank to take out the mats, but still inconvenient.

If you craft on multiple characters it would be highly inconvenient, yeah. For me it was just annoying until I figured out that the functionality was broken. Worst QA'd expansion ever, and that's saying a lot. Very low technical quality. Content is pretty good once they eventually get stuff working, though.

[Mojo03]

I don't get why when I deposit something it always goes into the first tab, regardless of the tab I'm in.

Makes no sense.

[Schizoide]

You can set "affinities" for each tab to determine where your items will go when you deposit them. So you could put old expansion reagents in tab 1, new reagents in 2, dragonflight items in tab 3, etc. If only tab1 has no affinity and you're depositing an item that doesn't match any of the other tabs, it'll go to tab 1.

Agree this could have been tutorialized much better. Or, at all.

[Lordofbelbol]

It's half-beaked because blizzard is using it as bait to draw casuals

[Soeroah]

Definitely don't think it's a huge failure, but I do wish they'd prioritise letting us fill orders from it

[Mic_128]

It's half-beaked because blizzard is using it as bait to draw casuals

Yeah, because that'll get people to resubscribe. A bank. Such amazing. Much enjoyment.

[durenas]

look son,

back in my day we had to mail everything, there was even ppl that had special alts for storage!

Why, when I was a young'un, sometimes the mail would just disappear and there'd be no record of it anywhere!