Preventing WoW Guild Bank Theft Tips

Permissions for your guild bank are set based on two things:

1. The guild bank tab
2. The guild rank.

In other words, each tab in the guild bank has individual permissions for each rank.

To set up your permissions, you will need to open your guild window and hit the Guild Control button at the bottom right (guild bank permissions can only be changed by the guild master, and cannot be changed for the guild master). This will open the guild control window.

At the top of the window is a drop down that lets you select the rank who”s permissions you wish to adjust. Next to that is a + button that lets you add ranks. New ranks are always added to the bottom of the list, and cannot be moved. Once a rank is displayed, the current guild permissions for that rank are displayed. Near the bottom of the screen is a box where you can enter the amount of gold per day that a character in the current rank can remove from the guild bank (repairing with money from the guild bank counts toward this total).

Below the Withdraw Gold box are the permissions for the guild bank by tab. The currently selected tab is highlighted in blue. Once a rank and tab have been selected, the current permissions for that rank when looking at the specified tab are displayed. There are only 3 options available for guild banks

• View Tab: Checking this box will allow members in the selected rank to look at the selected tab in the guild bank. This can be useful to turn off to prevent new members from seeing what is in the bank before they have proven themselves trustworthy.
• Deposit Items: Checking this box will allow members in the selected rank to deposit items in the selected tab. This can limit the amount of junk in your bank by limiting who can add to it.
• Withdraw Items: The value placed here determines how many stacks of items per day a member in the current rank can remove from the current tab. This is not based on the size of the stack, so a single item and a stack of 20 items both count as one stack.

NOTE: A member of your guild is allowed to remove gold and items from the guild bank based on their permissions. As such, Game Masters will be unable to assist with most cases if someone removes a large amount of gold/items and leaves the guild. More information on things you can do to protect your guild bank can be found in this knowledge base.

Known Issue with Guild Bank Withdrawal Limits

There is an issue where Guild Bank permissions can become stuck when joining a new guild, Guild Leaders should manually re-adjust permissions to ensure desired settings. We hope to have this addressed in an upcoming patch.

Preventing Guild Bank Theft

The items in a guild bank can represent a great deal of work on the part of all the members of a guild, and the loss of these items can be a big blow to the guild members. To protect your items, there are a few simple steps you can take:

• Make sure your lowest rank (the one players default into when you invite them into the guild) has little or no access to the guild bank. This will prevent a newly invited player from being able to take a bunch of items and leave.
• Be sure to limit who can promote characters in the guild to people you know and trust very well. Laying down ground rules on promotions, and being sure anyone with the ability to promote can be trusted to follow those rules will further go a long way in protecting your items (especially when combined with rank by rank permissions).
• When inviting a character that is an “alt” of a current member, make sure you verify that this character really is an “alt” by either getting the name from the current member while they are on the character already in the guild, or by having them log into the character they already have in the guild before promoting the alt (the alt can be promoted while offline, so all you need to do is invite it into the no access rank and have them swap characters).

Above all, use common sense. The guild bank is the responsibility of the guild leader and it may not be possible for the Game Master staff to recover losses that occur from someone removing items that their current permissions allow them to take.

NOTE: You can find more information on configuring your guild bank permissions, and setting up guild ranks in this Knowledge Base.

It is also possible to mandate certain ranks be required to have an authenticator if desired. This is recommended for anyone with bank access. If an authenticator is added to an account, or a character is newly joined to a guild, it will take approximately 72 hours before they can be promoted to a rank requiring the account have an authenticator and this is on a per character basis.