Returning to LE

Played LE when 1.0 launched up until PoE’s league launch, now looking to come back. Was playing SC CoF, now looking to play HC trade but i hear the market is very inflated from the dupe hack, should i just stick to CoF/SSF untill next cycle? or do you think it’s possible for a fresh starter to make enough to buy some decent items.

the game allows changing factions at any time.

how about you join MG and have a look at the prices, then decide if you want to stay in that faction.

i could say 1k gold is inflated, someone else could say 10k gold is inflated.
only you can decide what you consider inflated.

Figured there would be different prices on hc, and you cant check the hc ones as sc but maybe you can not sure. Also lose all my CoF rank if i were to switch right, so if the prices are trash i lost my rank for no reason, thats why im asking here.
Edit: nevermind looks like you keep your ranks if you switch back and forth

If I’m not mistaken though, I haven’t done it, you do lose all of your current prophecies and Favor. You just keep the Reputation so if you were Tier 8 when you changed you’d be Tier 8 when you came back.