Guild Vault

The Guild Vault is an inventory storage space available to a guild that has researched the Guild Vault: Stash upgrade with the Guild Initiative Notary. It can be increased to include as many as 250 slots. Guild members can open the vault by speaking to a Guild Banker or Guild Registrar in any city, or by activating a Vault Transport upgrade. In addition, the ability to deposit or withdraw from each section of the vault can be limited by adjusting the permissions of the relevant member ranks. It also appears inside a building in Gilded Hollow and Lost Precipice guild halls.^{[verification requested]}

Sections

Guild vault section	Permission	Deposit limit		Unlock requirements
		Slots	Coin	Upgrade	Guild Level	Gold cost	Favor cost	Aetherium cost
Guild Stash	Stash	50	1000	Guild Vault: Stash	0	50	1000	0
Treasure Trove	Trove	100	1000	Guild Treasure Trove	20	0	1500	3000
Deep Cave	Trove	100	1000	Deep Cave	32	100	2000	3000
Total		250	3000			150	4500	6000

NPC Locations

Guild Banker

NPC	Area	Zone
Black Lion Researcher	-	Mistlock Sanctuary
Bradd	Interdisciplinary Accessium	Rata Sum
Culurin	Reckoner's Terrace	The Grove
Fjotli	Trade Commons	Hoelbrak
Gerta	Champion's Rest	Heart of the Mists
Guild Initiative Representative	- - - -	Gilded Hollow Lost Precipice Windswept Haven Isle of Reflection
Guild Liaison Mattias	-	Armistice Bastion
Guild Promoter	-	Arborstone
Najwa	Bay of Elon	Crystal Oasis
Pavilion Elder	-	Thousand Seas Pavilion
Quora	Canton Factorium	Black Citadel
Sear Malstride	Postern Ward	Lion's Arch
Sopheria	Dwayna High Road	Divinity's Reach
Svas Silvasdottir	Outer Ring	The Wizard's Tower
The Magnificent Malpholio	Lava Lounge	Ember Bay

Guild Registrar

NPC	Area	Zone
Beaulieu	Guild Initiative Headquarters	Lion's Arch
Guild Master	- - - -	Eternal Battlegrounds Blue Alpine Borderlands Green Alpine Borderlands Red Desert Borderlands
Guild Registrar	-	A Splinter in the Flesh (story)
Hannah the Younger	Guild Initiative Headquarters	Lion's Arch

Other

• Vault Transport — Summons the Guild Vault to your location for easy access. Must have vault permissions.

Gallery

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  Gilded Hollow: Entrance to the vault.

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  Gilded Hollow: View from the stairs.

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  Gilded Hollow: View back toward the stairs.

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  Gilded Hollow: Directions to the Vault from Central Hollow Waypoint.

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  Lost Precipice: Entrance to the vault.

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  Lost Precipice: Looking down from the entry.

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  Lost Precipice: Treasure close-up.

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  Lost Precipice: Directions to the Vault from Central Precipice Waypoint.

Notes

Bugs:

• When trying to access a guild bank on a new account it will say (among other things) that two-factor authentication is required. Two-factor authentication is not required to access a guild bank.
• Items will not stack inside the bank if dragged on top. To stack, one must remove the items, combine in inventory/bank, and then place inside.

• Each section of the vault allows you to write a custom note of up to 74-characters.
• Many players create a "personal guild" to use the vault as additional storage, or to transfer items and gold between personal accounts.
• Players cannot open a guild vault until 72 hours after they have joined, in part to prevent it from being used by gold sellers.
• Players may only withdraw up to 500g a week from a guild bank. This is a combined total from all sections of a guild bank and not a limit per each.
• Account Bound items and Soulbound items may not be placed into the Guild Vault.
• New Accounts are limited by a maximum value of items deposited and withdrawn.
• A log is automatically maintained of all deposits and withdrawals.
• The drop down on the left side defaults to a player's inventory but this can be swapped for your bank's inventory.
• At release, Guild Vaults were tied to a specific world:
  • Cross-server guilds had to build vaults separately on each world using influence generated by members whose accounts belong to that world.
• As of the September 2014 Feature Pack, guilds are global and shared regardless of the world you are on. All merits, influence, and vaults were merged and are now shared across worlds.
• ArenaNet cannot replace items or wealth lost from a guild bank.
• All accounts created after August 28, 2015 (when free accounts were introduced) must meet the following criteria for access:
  • Own an expansion, Heroic edition, or have purchased the core game (i.e. not free to play)
  • Wait 5 days for validation