Here’s a partial list of issues I’ve found after just a few hours:
Like the Pet Journal, only ONE of your accounts can access the warbank at a time. If a second account (under the same battle.net account) casts the Warbank spell, you can’t interact with it. There’s no message. Just like the Pet Journal, whoever has the “lock” has to logout to release the lock. Then whoever wants it has to log out and back in;
A spell with a 2 hour CD to access the Warbank? Why? Why can’t there just be an NPC at the bank like the Guild bank? You can end up wasting your CD because of the above issue and if you log out and back in where you get sharded away from the Warbank you’ve already summoned;
Warbanks don’t mix with Unique(X) items. There are bug reports about Warbanks eating the Shards from Radiant Echoes that are all marked Unique(20). Here’s how it works. If you have 10 in the warbank and try and deposit another 15, you will (temporarily) lose the first 10. That’s why people think the Warbank is eating them;
The costs for extra slots are truly ridiculous. It’s a convenience feature for Warbound items. People already use alts for this. Paying millions of gold for all the extra slots to make this slightly less tedious isn’t justifiable.
Why can’t there just be an NPC at the bank like the Guild Bank?
There is - the regular banker can so you your Warbank if you walk up. It’s a tab at the bottom like the Reagent bank it. The 2 hour cooldown is only for access in the wild, which compared to other ways to access banks seems fair enough.
Any non-guild bank has 3 tabs. Personal, Reagent, and Warband. Y’all don’t read the quest stuff.
This is news to me though. Can’t speak to it, because I only have one account, but it seems like not a big deal to have to close it out before opening another.
Presumably, this is because the Warbank is stored in a separate databank from the player’s normal storage, so everything you withdraw or deposit has to go through a different process between the player and that databank to make sure everything’s kosher. If multiple characters could access the Warbank at a time, it’s very likely that it’d lead to issues like “if both characters withdraw the item at the same time, it duplicates” and “if a character deposits something while another character is looking at the tab, the bank ‘refreshes’ with the second character’s view and the item is deleted.”
I know what will happen, they will drop the cost of the later tabs eventually and say they listened to player feedback and some players will sing praises, and Blizz will say they learned from their mistakes and will do better next time.
Expected? Maybe. Reasonable? Absolutely not. It’s incredibly lazy and a terrible user experience for anyone with more than one account.
Why not at least give us a button “take lock” or whatever so we don’t have to log out toons to get this to work? Include some implicit behaviour here too like:
Don’t acquire the lock until you open the Warbank;
Automatically release the lock when you close the Warbank;
If you can use reagents from your Warbank for crafting (I actually don’t know if this is a thing), then you need to be able to implciitly do these three things together: lock, take reagents, unlock.
They do not. They’re in the bank but, basically, invisible. Check the Bug Support forums. There are a ton of threads about the Warbank eating items and this particular item came up multiple times.
AFAICT you have to physically log out to release the lock you have on the Warbank.
There are actually a ton of people who wait for the new expansion to come out then they go and play the old expansion. You will see completionists in DF after TWW comes out. I used to think this was silly but, hey, I’m not one to yuck someone else’s yum.
But it’s actually kinda smart. The content becomes easy. The systems are in their best state by the final patch. I mean think back to SL. Farming Anima in 9.0 was an awful experience. By 9.2 it was raining Anima.
Blizzard have confused the issue here by calling two things “acccounts”.
Your battle.net account is usually associated with your email address. It has your identity and payment information. Typically you only ever have one battle.net account.
Then there are WoW accounts. You can have multiple accounts under one Blizzard account. You can just create them if you wish, subscribed or not (ie trial accounts). Your WoW accounts (under the 1 bnet account) share the same cosmetics, achievements, etc. Each has its own list of toons.
You can log in 1 toon per account. I have 2 accounts so that’s 2 toons at once. Only one account at a time can seem to access the Warbank.
Sort of. I would think it’d be like the guild bank, where multiple people CAN access it. But… the guild bank can be significantly slower because of the reason you state. When someone withdraws or deposits, it has to “lock” the table (or that section of data) and then do the action, then unlock it. There’s a performance cost to this, which is likely why there’s a bit of lag. It’s something that could be done with the Warbank, but in order to do that, it’d incur a penalty for a (relatively) uncommon case like this.
It’s unavoidable with a guild bank… well, unless you wanted to lock the entire guild bank to only be accessible by one person at a time. Which would be super annoying!