Guild Wars 2

When i created my Asuran necromancer i had picked one of the 3 masks that i thought really reflected how i wanted him to look. Sadly that was 80 levels ago and i can’t remember for the life of me what happened to it.

Perhaps if its not too much trouble there could be an option on the storyline tab (My story beginning) you could have an option to retrieve the said soulbound item.

Be it the Guardian shoulders/helmets, the Elementalist head focus, the Necromancer Masks and so on.

Create a new character with the item you want, give that new character a Basic Transmutation Stone, transmute the item you want with another basic item of the same category (e.g buy a basic medium armor mask (low lvl) if you want to transmute a ranger, engi or thief starter helmet), now the item will say soulbound but it is acutally account bound and able to be stored into the bank. Grab the new mask with the character you want it on, use a transmutation stone (depending on your level) and transmute it with your current mask or whatever other mask you want.

You can also use this method if one of your characters has enough karma for Orr armor but another one of your characters does not. It doesn’t give you the stats, only the appearance.

wait! Using a transmutation stone makes something account bound not soulbound?

There is none.

There’s also no way to get back other account items if destroyed, such as a shop that has them like the Hall of Monuments vendor.

Because of that, I suggested this:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Memento-Box-small-Digital-Deluxe-starting-gear-and-home-instance-improvement

Many people deleted their initial elementalist headgear because it was bugged, and the visual effect didn’t transfer.
So I even updated the post to fit the addition of Unique property for items and Laurels.

Twylla Night.1792:

wait! Using a transmutation stone makes something account bound not soulbound?

Only if you chose to keep the stats of the white / basic item.