Guild Wars 2

So we get to pick a personal item early on the game but it quickly gets replaced, at which point some of us (guilty as charged myself) destroy this item. Only later in the game I at least wished I had not destroyed this item (“Universal multi-tool backpack” of engineers).
What I think is that we should have some way to recover these items since they have no sell value whatsoever and are purely cosmetic.

There is a workaround, you can create a second character of the class, buy a random white item of the same type, use a transmutation stone on the item, and drop it in the bank.

It will still be soulbound, but your main will still be able to equip it.

I think it’s a recent update because I did the transmutation process about a week ago with no luck. Kept it in the bank and only today did I notice that I could now move it into my inventory and/equip it, redid the process with a different set of armor and it worked again.

Really hope it’s not a bug ANet will “fix” at some point because the game really needs more ways to differentiate classes.

Won’t work on my case at least, back/underwear items are not exactly acquirable. There could just be a possibility for example in the story part of hero page to re-acquire the item for karma or something like that.