Guild Wars 2

I feel that guild vaults (stash, treasure cove, and deep cave) need an optional security step in order to keep them safe from compromised accounts.

Hacked/compromised accounts are given one life time account restoration (roll back) or more than one under some circumstances. Once a hacked/compromised account has been restored, everything except for Trading Post and Guild Vault items are reverted back to an earlier save state. Personal guilds with full vaults are not safe and trading post transactions are not safe because the damage done in those areas are permanent, irreversible for the sake of the in-game economy.

This issue also stretches far beyond personal guilds, since everyone is human and make mistakes. Large guilds with hundreds of people can be affected because the leader(s) or officer(s) were hacked and the malicious individual dipped his or her hands into a collection of items that cannot be rolled back, affecting even those who were not hacked.

Example: Video made by two brothers who have lost 11,000 gold from a compromised guild vault

Something as simple as a pin number code or secondary password for guild vaults would be nice, to keep hackers from stealing items that cannot be replaced with that one in a lifetime account roll back. An optional step for those who want to feel safer with another layer of security to keep an otherwise irrevocable nightmare from crippling an entire guild of people.

I’ve been hacked before and apparently that hacker was a gold seller since he/she linked gold selling addresses to my old compromised email (which is currently queued for termination). A step to keep guild vaults safe would be a step closer to hindering gold sellers from making even more substantial profits off the valuables stolen from guild vaults.