My main thing in GW1 was to complete titles. I played a bit of everything. I never farmed much, apart maybe for Luxon faction - this took quite some time. I only really started accumulating wealth once I captured all the Elite skills and then doing a bit of DoA. One of the great things about GW is how cheaply you can get your characters ready for anything. Anything extra is just bling.
I remember lots of people were using simple passwords and using the same password for the game and email. I'm sorry you got hacked. They introduced 2FA and IP filtering eventually, I think that helped a lot to reduce the hacking problem too.
Yeah, unfortunate situation which in hindsight I think I had a simple password. In the end I just completely forgot my whole account cos I didn't want to get angry.