In World of Warcraft, there is currently a bug that is causing some concern. Are other people accessing your bank? Here’s what’s behind it.
Update 31.07.: The warband bank is now functioning and you should no longer see the bug.
Original report: With the Pre-Patch 11.0, the era of “The War Within” has begun for World of Warcraft. However, such a major patch brings not only many positive changes but also some bugs. Some of these cause concerns, while others are just annoying.
However, one bug gives the impression that other people are accessing your account. Don’t worry: This is not what the bug implies, and the cause of the bug is not serious.
What kind of bug is this? It’s a bug that occurs when trying to access the new warband bank feature. There you can read the message:
“Another member of the warband is already accessing the bank.”
This immediately raises alarm bells for some: Are other people currently accessing my account and emptying my bank?
If you see this message: Don’t worry. It doesn’t mean that your account has been hacked, nor does it indicate that anything is wrong.
Usually, this message only appears when you have multiple WoW accounts linked to your Battle.net account and are logged in with several accounts simultaneously.
Currently, however, there is a serious bug that has caused Blizzard to disable the warband bank. As such, this message is displayed to prevent access to the bank.
Everything is fine with your account.
What can be done about it? Currently, nothing at all. Blizzard will certainly fix the bug in the coming days, and then the bank should be functional. Until then, you simply cannot use it and will have to forgo the feature.
This gives you some extra time to farm some gold – as the full unlocking of the warband bank is quite expensive.
Are there any other bugs? Yes, quite a few, actually. Especially the action bars, meaning your spell bars, are causing issues right now. For many, these bars are hidden, and you have to manually reveal them again in the options.
But some of the new talents are also causing difficulties because some of them simply do not work correctly. For instance, the priest with his radiance can suddenly pull half the dungeon onto himself, while other classes find that their talents are not functioning properly.
But these are also likely bugs that Blizzard will fix with hotfixes in the coming hours and days. After all, there is still some time before the start of the pre-event on Wednesday. If logging into WoW is currently taking a long time – that’s completely normal and even intended.
