Guild Wars 2

So i was inactive for a whole year and I got hacked. My account was banned but i managed to get it back. Now, not only is my lvl 80 Necromancer naked with 0 gear and 0 gold, I’m also super rusty of the game.

So, I’ve decided to at the very least try and farm back my basic Carrion Exalted Set and a staff but I’ve no idea how to without any gear. My crafting is maxed so I can craft the coats if needed but I’ve virtually no money. Any advice on what to do?

I think you can get your stuff back once per account. Just write a support ticket and try.

Pvp might be an option if you cant get your stuff back. since you dont need your standard gear for that. The new pvp reward tracks give you acces to:

- Regular PvE/dungeon gear including dungeon tokens.
- Materials that you need for ascended crafting.
- Gold
- The occasional ascended drop (got about 10 drops since the patch).

If you were hacked, support usually rolls your account back to the point pre-hack, maybe you could look into that (though maybe they can’t if it’s been too long or something). Anyway, first thing you need is some gear.

First advice would be not to expect to get full exotics right away, a set of rare (yellow) quality gear, or even masterwork (green) should be enough to get you started.

How much karma you got? you can get some starting green (masterwork) gear from heart vendors, though some of it won’t be level 80 but at least it’s something. If you have enough you can go to the temples in Orr and even buy exotic gear (you’d need roughly 750k karma for a full set). Also you can get rare quality weapons for karma from cultural weapon vendors on LA and on all racial cities.

How are your materials?. You can craft some green (masterwork) or yellow (rare) gear and it’d be enough for a start. Or you might even get more mileage out of them by plain selling the materials on the TP and get yourself some gear from it. A full set of rare carrion gear would cost around 4g (including a weapon) purchased from the TP, if you go with masterwork gear (green) it’ll be a little over 1g, a full stack of iron would sell for 5g, and some materials can be sold for more.

You could also borrow money to purchase a set from a friend or a guildie (4g isn’t that much, just be sure to pay them out)

Get some friends to run some easy dungeons where your lack of gear wouldn’t be such a hindrance (CoF P1, for example, or AC P3). You’ll get gear as drops, enough gold to purchase some pieces off the TP, and on each run enough tokens to purchase at least one piece of rare gear from the dungeon vendor (don’t save your tokens to get the exotics until you have at least full rare quality gear).

Join Edge of the Mysts or WvW on thursday nights. WvW reset on fridays, by thursday night usually the victor of that week has already been decided (unless it’s a very close match), so usually you can find one or more karma trains running there. Basically they are groups that don’t bother with actual PvP but run capturing easy targets (made easier because chances are the other servers are doing the same), each target counts as an event so it’ll give you some gold and karma you can then use to gear up. As long as you stay within the zerg (be sure to use signet of the locust to run faster) your lack of gear won’t be much of an issue. Just load into WvW on thursday nights and ask if there’s a karma train going. Edge of the Mysts usually also do karma trains most of the times, load in and try to reach the commander tag if there’s one, or just ask where the zerg is. As a bonus, you’ll also earn badges of honor ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Badge_of_Honor ) that you can then use to get some nice gear.

Do world bosses. You get several greens and at least one rare piece of gear each, even if you can’t use them you can salvage and sell the resulting materials. Go to gw2timer.com to see what world boss is next and where to go to for it.

Just some ideas to help you get back on your feet.

You contact support at https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new to request an Account Restoration, a rollback to a time before the hack.

Rollbacks are only one per account so if you ever get hacked again you will lose everything. Make sure your computer is secure first. Run a security sweep if you haven’t already done so. Change the password to your email in case they got into that.

You will lose any progress between now and the rollback so if you decide to go that route there is no point in playing until then.