Been thinking about the proposed banking profession, and while it's hard to make solid suggestions with so little info, the description does worry me.

Banking: Become a savvy financier and engage in dynamic item quests. You'll take part in unique missions to collect and manage valuable items. Store your precious belongings in the vault - an isolated storage area to lock away items for safekeeping and collection tracking. As you level up banking, you can unlock even more vault space. How many items from around Loria can you accumulate?

Essentially, I would like to suggest changing the banker/vault theming into a curator/gallery theme. The actual gameplay can hypothetically be mostly the same. "Unique missions to collect and manage valuable items" already sounds like it could have a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe to me. And whatever they have planned for "collection tracking" can probably still be part of this profession. The main difference would be that a standard private vault (just storing items to prevent accidental sale/feeding/etc) would simply be a qol feature. Everyone gets it, and it's not tied to any profession. What you DO get from progressing the proposed banking profession is the ability to unlock public gallery slots. Show off your rare items, your massive stockpile of moths, whatever you want.

This feels like it could easily keep the planned vibe and general concept of the profession, but grant a feature that players would more readily accept being locked and limited.

Support! This would be a great alternative for the profession, and it sounds fun too!

highly support this idea, has a lot of good points to it.

Oh yeah, I like this a lot. Support.

Yeah, I could get more behind something like this, a more solid change of scope that keeps the spirit of the thing, instead of locking something as basic & important to the user experience as "safe storage" behind another profession. Eeespecially given how level scaling works for the other professions.

Support! The notion of the vault being separate from collections is one I need personally. Nothing should interfere with a player's ability to keep their own items stored and the description of the Banking profession sounds like that's what would happen. I like the idea of goal-oriented collecting in the current Profession system but it really needs to not be related to the vault idea.

Wonderful idea! Full support.

Reviving this thread since it's confirmed that the vault will no longer be banking exclusive and I was thinking of suggesting this myself. A public trophy shelf to show off an item stack or two would be a great profession exclusive addition.

A personalisable info box on the same page would also be nice to accompany it if you want to share why you collect certain items or log how you've been getting them etc.