Guild Wars 2

After last week’s patch, I’ve noticed a LOT of the Guild Bank NPCs have been removed, especially in Lion’s Arch. There was actually one of the NPCs in the Mystic Plaza that you could talk to to gain access to your bank vault, but since then that option has been removed from her chat window. Now, she only lets you edit your guild emblem and expand your roster.

This particularly urks me because the ONLY Guild Bank NPC in Lion’s Arch now is the one at Fort Marriner near all of the crafting areas. You know, by that waypoint that was removed from the game.

This makes it extremely inconvenient to gain access to your Guild Vault, not being able to teleport straight to it. Does anyone else have something to contribute to this?

It appears life in the cities is more convenient? :P

Considering that LA is still under reconstruction, maybe.

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

After last week’s patch, I’ve noticed a LOT of the Guild Bank NPCs have been removed, especially in Lion’s Arch. There was actually one of the NPCs in the Mystic Plaza that you could talk to to gain access to your bank vault, but since then that option has been removed from her chat window. Now, she only lets you edit your guild emblem and expand your roster.

This particularly urks me because the ONLY Guild Bank NPC in Lion’s Arch now is the one at Fort Marriner near all of the crafting areas. You know, by that waypoint that was removed from the game.

This makes it extremely inconvenient to gain access to your Guild Vault, not being able to teleport straight to it. Does anyone else have something to contribute to this?

… there was? FML. The only one I could see was at Fort Mariner anyway Yeah, I just did everything from DR instead, unless it involved forging.

felessan.9587:

… there was? FML. The only one I could see was at Fort Mariner anyway Yeah, I just did everything from DR instead, unless it involved forging.

Yeah, I just looked it up. Cyri (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cyri) in the Trader’s Forum used to allow you to access the Guild Vault before the 9/9 patch. I used her all the time, since I could just run from the bank in Western Ward, over the bridge, and right to her. Well, at least after they destroyed the Waypoint in Fort Mariner anyway.

She never displayed the Guild Bank icon, though, so I think most people didn’t know she would allow you access.

If she never displayed the icon maybe it was a bug that was letting you use her as a guild banker.

ktoll.2830:

If she never displayed the icon maybe it was a bug that was letting you use her as a guild banker.

Possible. But even so, that doesn’t detract from the fact that there is only one guild bank NPC in Lion’s Arch, and it’s not really close to a waypoint at all. So, inconvenient to access your Guild Bank. I don’t know why they don’t have one near the regular Bank NPCs, like in just about every other major city.

Isn’t there just one guild banker in all the other cities too?

For some inexplicable reason the guild banker in Ebonhawke has also gone MIA. Very annoying since the layout of Ebonhawke used to be really convenient for crafting, trading, bank access and guild bank access.

Please bring him back!

ktoll.2830:

Isn’t there just one guild banker in all the other cities too?

Maybe. I just know, the ones I remember are right beside a regular banker, and also right beside a waypoint.

Divinity’s Reach at District Promenade, Black Citadel at Canton Factorum, Hoelbrak at Southern Watch post…

OP still hasn’t learned about WvW Borderland.

Brother Grimm.5176:

OP still hasn’t learned about WvW Borderland.

I have, but I’m sorry if I don’t want to port to Borderlands every single time I want to go to my guild bank, especially if I’m already IN Lion’s Arch for other reasons.

I think you still haven’t learned about the concept of “it’s inconvenient to warp to Borderlands when you’re already in a city that has access to a guild bank it’s just a long walk away from a waypoint”.

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

Brother Grimm.5176:

OP still hasn’t learned about WvW Borderland.

I have, but I’m sorry if I don’t want to port to Borderlands every single time I want to go to my guild bank, especially if I’m already IN Lion’s Arch for other reasons.

I think you still haven’t learned about the concept of “it’s inconvenient to warp to Borderlands when you’re already in a city that has access to a guild bank it’s just a long walk away from a waypoint”.

No need to be so aggressive. He was just pointing out that there is a way to access the guild bank through the Borderlands, albeit in a sarcastic(?) way.

This seems to be more of a convenience issue as it’s perfectly acceptable to port to a waypoint and walk a bit to reach a guild bank or make a trip far away from the bank/crafting stations/mystic forge to access the guild bank.

Elsdragon.5109:

ShadowDragoonFTW.3418:

Brother Grimm.5176:

OP still hasn’t learned about WvW Borderland.

I have, but I’m sorry if I don’t want to port to Borderlands every single time I want to go to my guild bank, especially if I’m already IN Lion’s Arch for other reasons.

I think you still haven’t learned about the concept of “it’s inconvenient to warp to Borderlands when you’re already in a city that has access to a guild bank it’s just a long walk away from a waypoint”.

No need to be so aggressive. He was just pointing out that there is a way to access the guild bank through the Borderlands, albeit in a sarcastic(?) way.

This seems to be more of a convenience issue as it’s perfectly acceptable to port to a waypoint and walk a bit to reach a guild bank or make a trip far away from the bank/crafting stations/mystic forge to access the guild bank.

Go test it. They removed the option to access the guild bank from the borderland NPCs too.

It wasn’t a bug either. I learned about these NPCs from my old guild, who learned about it from an Anet employee around launch.

Having to leave WvW (and possibly re-queue) to access the guild bank is worse than having to port from LA to one of the other cities or, like, walk from the waypoint just outside fort marriner.

Whatever the motivation for this change, it is lame. Lame, I say.

If you meant me, Thrashbarg, then I will say that I have not tried to access it there post-patch, but even if it’s gone, there’s a portal to LA where you can go to access the guild bank after a little walk.

Elsdragon.5109:

If you meant me, Thrashbarg, then I will say that I have not tried to access it there post-patch, but even if it’s gone, there’s a portal to LA where you can go to access the guild bank after a little walk.

I meant the whole conversation, since it was based on false premise (accessing guild bank possible through WvW). I tried to quote the whole sub-conversation there, but the forum software seems to think the top comment should be removed, I’m bad at foruming….

I am aware of the existence of the portal to Lion’s Arch also. I did not say that bank access is impossible, just less convenient.

Is there a good reason for this negative quality of life change? It’s not game breaking, but is there any way this could be viewed as a good change?

I’ve had about enough of the disabled Fort Marrimer waypoint. I like the idea of a Living World, but with so much of a gap in-between story, it’s just “a removed piece of gameplay functionality” at this point.

I started using Mystic Plaza ever since and I was tolerating the reduced functionality, but now with this guild bank change, it’s forcing me to walk over there if I want to do my stuff in LA and that’s not cool.

For the Borderlands one, could be a means to cut off access to stuff (like blueprints) without the need to leave WvW. I could imagine people cooking non-account-bound food in LA and placing them into guild bank to let a guild mate take it out from the guild bank and use it there without having to leave WvW (in case there’s a long queue for it).

For the other one, like someone stated above, they never had the guild bank symbol over their head so that may have been a bug that they gave access to it.

Funny, I just used the Guild Bank in my Borderland yesterday. I had heard about it no longer being accessible, but there it was! Same as always.

Now, in the past, there have been times when both banks were not there, but I thought that had something to do with …well, something going on in WvW. I’m not that good at WvW, so I don’t know all the rules.

Maybe it was a bug on my client. /shrug