How about a service to create a guild just for your characters?
I don’t belong to a guild to team up for anything, mainly because I’m a casual player and can only play when time allows.
I would love to have a guild just for the purpose of having a guild bank so all my characters could have access to everything without having to go search which alt has what I need and then mail it.
You can certainly do this, and in fact a lot of people do!
You’ll need to create the guild using the usual process of getting people to sign the charter, but just let them know the purpose of the guild when you’re having them sign so they don’t expect to be part of a community. You’ll likely have to offer gold to get people to sign it, but you might find people who will do it for free for you too.
Once it’s created, just make sure and have someone stay long enough to invite your alts to the guild before they leave it themselves.
If you like having guild chat, vendors, etc. but don’t want to be obligated to do guild activities join random guilds. I join big random guilds with all my characters mainly for the chat. None of them have ever required me to do anything, but I sometimes run dungeons with randoms in the guild. I ask how many do you currently have online before accepting invites to make sure they have a lot of active players.
I usually have “families” of characters on each server and often have a personal guild for my characters.
I usually just advertise in trade for signatures every 15 minutes or so offering gold for signatures. I pay half when the guild charter is signed, and half when the guild goes active with the understanding that I will kick everyone else out once the guild forms.
However, I have multiple accounts so can log on to characters on separate accounts to send the invites to my toons.
NOTE:
Devs do not come to this player to player support forum for feedback and suggestions.
I would recommend using the ingame feedback mechanism under the help menu as suggestions and feedback entered ther goes directly to the devs.
I went to the feedback and suggested that everyone have an account bound bank account. Instead of each alt having an individual bank, let all your alt’s have access to the same bank account.
I think everyone would like it . What do you think?
I have alts who I created just for bank space. How big would an account bound bank need to be to accommodate up to 50 toons on just one wow license? Let alone the fact that you can have up to 8 licenses on one account.
The best you could hope for would be a shared bank across all characters of the same faction on a server. The FFXIV bank/inventory situation is much worse so I’m fine with what we have. I don’t craft though so it’s easier for me. In fact, I hardly ever use my banks. Gave all my chars 30 slot deep sea bags. An AH mule character is like a bank with 140+ bag slots, but I agree it would be nice to not have to mail stuff.
Well, I guess they could make it a service. Charge $10.00 to have it. I would buy it and you could stay just the way it is.
Ironically, FFXIV has an option to pay an extra $2 each month in your sub for extra retainers (storage).
Even if a bank were shared across all characters of the same faction on the same server, it would need to be large enough to accommodate the 50 character realm limit.
I usually have toons dedicated to holding specific types of resources. If another character in that faction and realm obtains some, they just mail them to the holding character for that type of resource.
The addon Altoholic does a good job of tracking who has what, even across wow accounts and also across connected realms.
Right now the bank has room for 7 bags, that’s about 250 slots. I don’t think it would be very hard to add another row or 2 of bags. I think the largest bag now is around 32 slots.
You could potentially have 500 / 750 slots . That’s a lot of room
Started an Alt guild for kicks yesterday. I wanted the guild subtitles on my nameplates and the idea of raising professions through hand me down drops. People have rolled Mules for decades now. I like how mounts, pets, toys, and mogs are shared through account bound. Seems like Banks should have evolved to allow the same type of personal War chest. Alt-ing is my endgame. Wish Garrisons were account bound too. I know the idea is to get out there and socialize but I feel I no longer care to raid or even dungeon crawl…more like cleave these days. Dungeon finder is a great tool but it’s all so sterile.
This is now 2024 and no changes about making a guild for your alts. Still a royal pain, can’t they make it so you can send invites to characters for starting a guild as well as joining one. Currently you can only send invites for joining a guild.