Interesting intro.
Played Guild Wars I think from week 2 after release. Used to be a gold unidentified item farmer/seller. Or doing taxi service for new players or alt characters.
I played Guild Wars 2 but stopped when my account got hacked.
Welcome to Hive man.
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.