Guild Wars 2

I kept transmuting the necromancer wraith masque that is one of the options for the starting character through all levels up to level 80 as it fit to my character concept very well.

Unfortunatelly when I was upgrading equipment to level 80 I sold it to merchant as a part of inventory cleaning without realizing and now there’s no way I am able to get it back as buyback option is only when the merchant window is still open.

I tried creating a new necromancer but as the item is soulbound it cannot be transferred even between characters of the same account. However apparently it could be sold which I believe is a bug since most soulbound items cannot be sold to merchants.

I’m contemplating about deleting the character and recreating him just to get the mask back but he is already level 80 so I’d lose all those levels and all other progress I’ve made with him.

Instead of that I’m asking a way to recreate the starting item through a merchant. A bit like how the HoM portal stone works currently. I also created a support ticket on this but I doubt they can help restoring the item.

That sucks. I’ve been doing the same with my Glacial Eye or whatever the ele starting water headgear is called. Would hate to not ever be able to get it back, and actually, would love to be able to get the other attunements at some point, too.

Yeah. I was so bummed about losing the mask I haven’t even really played that character anymore because of that. I just log in and then start thinking I should not do anything with him in case I actually end up deleting and restarting him.

I’m basically waiting for some kind of confirmation on if I have to delete the guy or if they are adding some method to reacquire those items – or if support can restore it. Support is swamped with more important cases though so I don’t expect them to get back on it anytime soon. Even to just confirm they can’t help which is hopefully not the case but something I fully expect to happen.

Hopefully they add some method to get them back. Actually it would be even nicer if they create a colorable version of that wraith masque! Not sure if it will happen though as I think it’s actually a sort of particle emitter that causes the glowing eyes look and not physical item with a colorable material zone.

Actually it also looks to me like any skins purchased from the gem store are character specific. At least I haven’t figured out a way to spawn more of them as they are delivered through mail. There’s no way I’m going to spend real cash on stuff that may end up on a character I delete!

Could you not make a new necromancer, then use the transmute stone to put the appearance onto a crafted armour, then transfer that item to your level 80?

LadenSwallow.1468:

Could you not make a new necromancer, then use the transmute stone to put the appearance onto a crafted armour, then transfer that item to your level 80?

Commented this in OP already: "I tried creating a new necromancer but as the item is soulbound it cannot be transferred even between characters of the same account. "

Yeah, this is definitely a bummer. I sold my Elementalist third eye early on assuming we could get other ones later. Seemed like a safe assumption coming from GW1 — I had no idea it was a unique skin.

Would definitely be nice to have the ability to recreate it. Maybe from within the personal story panel in the hero pane? It already shows up there…

I have noticed that some vendors around sells the basic starter gear, or at least gear that has the same looks.
Have you checked to see if some of them have the mask for you to buy?

Dragonlord.6748:

I have noticed that some vendors around sells the basic starter gear, or at least gear that has the same looks.
Have you checked to see if some of them have the mask for you to buy?

Where? I’ve been trying to do the same thing as OP with an Anonymity Hood

Just wasted a bunch of transmutation stones.

Yeah I’d like to know the same thing where that vendor might be. If not I hope they can be recovered.

this thread talks about this problem…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/BUG-Special-starter-armor-skins-are-not-obtainable-in-game/first#post461920