Guild Wars 2

Sad story intro: I start play guild wars 2 at the lauch and played for about a year; most of my friend stop playing during the queen jubilee but I still continued to play but then during the twilight assault event my account got hacked and I, already almost alone, surrender.

Now I decided to return to try HoT and because the “casual nature” of the game is good to fill some of my free time.

I’ve already recovered the account but the problem is that I have 5 character lv 80(an engi, ele, necro, guardian, mesmer) with no gear(except for ascended berserk back, trinkets, amulet, rings on engi that are account bound), 64 copper and 2.4k karma.

What’s the best way to have some basic gear on my 80 characters to start exploring HoT?
I’ve seen from just logging in Lion’s Arch that a lot changed in the game so starting a new character is an available option to see what’s changed.

Thank you for every advice.

The immage show what’s left in my bank(as materials only the fractal BoA are still there)

If you have an open character slot, starting a new character sounds like the best option to me. A lot has changed over the last couple of years, including the whole leveling and skills system.

Your old characters should get birthday gifts for first, second and most likely third year in their mail. The third year box contains a scroll that will boost a new character to level 30, so that might be a good place to start. Do your lvl 10-20-30 personal story on that character. You will get one or more bags of loot as reward for most story steps. Don’t open those on the leveling character, but put them in your bank and open them on one of the 80s. That way you will get lvl 80 equipment out of them, as well as some gathering tools.

They’ll mostly be blues and greens, but should be enough to get your 80s outfittet to the point where they’ll be able to roam lower level areas, gathering materials that you can sell on the trading post or use for crafting, as well as more equipment for your 80s. It’ll also help you get used to how this game plays again.

Once you’re comfortable with the level your 80s are at, check the world boss timer for world boss events within your reach, and play those on your 80s for guaranteed rares that you can use (if useful) or sell at the trading post. Within a couple of weeks you should be able to make it to a point where your characters are comfortably equipped and ready to explore the jungle.

Good luck!

edit: If you haven’t finished your personal story with any of your 80s, that might also be a good point to continue once you have some very basic equipment on them. The later story steps do give some decent equipment that could well be an upgrade to your basic stuff at that point.

You might also want to think about finding a guild or friend that will run the first HoT story instance with you to unlock masteries on your account, since you need to level those through gaining experience on lvl 80 characters.

The streamer/YouTuber BogOtter has a series about returning players. The most recent covers the latest changes to traits aka specializations.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMgOinWh2Y7FbZyBhlqgHoPI2w8_76_1w

As for money, avoid selling to an NPC vendor unless there isn’t anyone willing to buy what you got as drops on the TP, and even then salvaging and selling the resulting mats on the TP. Basic gathering materials in the lower tiers are in demand.

Level 80 rare armor will run you around 2.5 gold and a set of exotic less than 10 gold.

As for tips in HoT. Take it slow, the mobs are a lot tougher so you really need to grok pulling and kiting as well as knowing your character well.

Thank you a lot both, I started a Revenant to see what kind of beast is it and to stack some currency