Crafting Mats Sent To Bank Alts

Ulvich

A few moments ago I logged into one of my “bank alts” and discovered it had received mail. What I got was crafting mats from three hirelings. This “bank alt” is a level 3 with no spend points anywhere. It shouldn’t be getting crafting mats. Don’t get me wrong here, I really do appreciate lots of free stuff, but am I going to have to check all 14 of my toons twice a day?

Amottica

Are you sure you had not logged into a different character that received crafting matts but did not open the mail and then logged into the alt?

JanTanhide

This happens often to me. But what happens is I log in on a crafter and don't stay logged in long enough to trigger the mail. So when I log in to the next character the mail box has the hireling mail from the previous log in. Happens all the time and has been this way for many years.

Ulvich

Amottica wrote: »

Are you sure you had not logged into a different character that received crafting matts but did not open the mail and then logged into the alt?

Prior to logging into this alt toon I was on my main who has all the hirelings checked. That character did receive mail and it was collected accordingly. My bank alt also received crafting mats, but from only three hirelings. This alt character should not be getting anything from anyone, yet there it was.
I did wait for the mail to load on my alt since there seems to be an issue with mail loading correctly. And it was collected.
I don't know what is going on. I will check in later today and see if it gets more mats.

Dagoth_Rac

I get crafting mats on alts all the time. But it is always delayed mails from crafting characters. If I only get 3 emails initially on my crafter, I will then get 2 more emails if I change zones. If I don't change zones, I will get the emails on the next character I log into.

I would prefer this to not getting the emails at all and having to wait until I log into the crafting character again.

I have never gotten "bonus" emails giving me mats I should have never received. It is always emails I should have received on another character but got stuck in the mail queue or some other kind of lag or delay.

Ulvich

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

I get crafting mats on alts all the time. But it is always delayed mails from crafting characters. If I only get 3 emails initially on my crafter, I will then get 2 more emails if I change zones. If I don't change zones, I will get the emails on the next character I log into.

I would prefer this to not getting the emails at all and having to wait until I log into the crafting character again.

I have never gotten "bonus" emails giving me mats I should have never received. It is always emails I should have received on another character but got stuck in the mail queue or some other kind of lag or delay.

Yeah, this has me stumped. My alt has no hirelings checked, therefor it should not be getting mats. I am just wondering if this is a new thing, or simply another bug..

Grizzbeorn

Mail doesn't actually come to your individual characters, it comes to your account.

PeacefulAnarchy

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

Mail doesn't actually come to your individual characters, it comes to your account.

Kinda, mail comes to whoever it is addressed. If mail is addressed to your account, it pops no matter who logs in, if it is addressed to a character it only pops when that character logs in. Hireling mails come to your character. Cyro campaign rewards are another example of character addressed mail.

That said, once a mail pops, it remains in your inbox accessible to all your characters.

Mail has been having issues where mail arrives but isn't visible until a zone switch.

Ulvich wrote: »

I did wait for the mail to load on my alt since there seems to be an issue with mail loading correctly. And it was collected.
I don't know what is going on. I will check in later today and see if it gets more mats.

Are you sure it all loaded? I check hirelings regularly, and since this last patch in particular I've had issues where only 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 of the 5 mails show, even though they all arrive on the backend. The rest show when I switch zones, but if I log out instead then they show when I log into the next character. Sometimes it shows a "mail is full" message even if my mail is not full, but sometimes it shows no indication of the invisible mail.

Bat

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

Mail doesn't actually come to your individual characters, it comes to your account.

Hireling mail only comes to individual characters who have the hireling passives unlocked, and they only come in if you log into those characters that have those passives. Or, so it should be, but it seems OP is experiencing some type of bug in that regards.

Grizzbeorn

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

That said, once a mail pops, it remains in your inbox accessible to all your characters.

Yeah, that is what I was trying to convey, but my thinking was botched. My bad.

Ulvich

I see what you guys are saying about account mail vs. character mail. In my case I am starting to think this is a bug of some kind. My alt should not be getting crafting mats of any type. As for my main character.... I did wait a while and did receive what was expected. There does seem to be some type of lag with the mail, and I was aware of it at that time. It just throws me for a loop that this alt would be getting mail like this. It has never happened before today. We'll see what happens later.