Maybe I should quote myself to clarify why I said part of that comment.
I never said adding guild banks would be dire, I said that “even the smallest of changes have had some dire effects” This was all stated after I had said “I am not going to pretend to know what is best”.
But as for changes?
- The demand for bags. This will alter the ability to gain gold as a tailor.
- The demand for cloth. This will alter the ability to gain gold from AH’ing cloth.
- Alteration of guild management. This will alter how many guilds will manage their goods. Players will be ranked to specifically deal with bank tasks etc.
- Increased guild creation. This will increase the numbers of guilds created as there will be guilds made solely for storing items.
- Altered guild UI. No details needed really.
- Altered bank areas to have the guild banks obviously.
- Increasing the demand to be in major cities to use the guild bank.
- Decreases the value set on having good bag space. You will be able to just packrat stuff on a single character with a large guild bank.
- This adds another gold sink.
- It also adds incentive to keep an old guild rather than just let it die and have its name open up down the line.
- Reduces the number of characters needed to manage items being kept over time.
- By reducing the trades and mail sent between players for their upcoming raids it also slightly streamlines a bit of the player interaction.
These were the changes I could think of off the top of my head. Are they all of them? I do not believe so.
And let’s be honest here. In the end this is a recreation of Vanilla WoW as Classic. It is not a complete recreation yes, but it is done in the concept of recreating it as it should be remembered. This did not exist in Vanilla nor should it in Classic.
I am not crazy, I will not directly state that “adding guild banks would kill classic!” but I do not believe there is a need nor an outstanding want for such a thing. Do I believe that as a change it is one of the lesser affecting ones made over time? Yes. Do I enjoy the concept of the guild bank? Yes I love it actually. But I do not believe it belongs in Classic as it was not part of the Vanilla experience. Something I am looking for them to help recreate.