Guild Wars 2

Hello there,

This post is directed to ArenaNet developers and players, since there is a lot of misunderstanding throughout the forum regarding the Legendary Weapons and mainly the precursors. Before get into that we need to know and understand what the source of these complaints is:

The Legendary Status

So, to make myself clear, it’s important to take a look at the very first video about the Legendary Weapons [by Arena Net].

http://youtu.be/MdA4MlrF5mA

This allows us to conclude that the purpose of having a Legendary weapon is not only to get it’s beautiful skin but most importantly to show everyone that you are a true Guild Wars 2 master player, it’s an item that showcases your achievements. Therefore it must be the hardest item to obtain in the game.

Now, keeping that in mind, let’s take a closer look into the current process of crafting the legendary itself. The average legendary weapon costs:

• 500 Dungeon Tokens (account bound)
• 1.010.100 Karma or 7500 Fractal Relics (account bound)
• 339 Skill Points (account bound)
• Gift of Exploration (account bound)
• 500 Badges of Honor (account bound)
• being a mastercrafter in 2 crafting professions
• 120 Gold (buyable stuff from NPCs
• 1100+ Gold (stuff only buyable from BLTCo)
  OR
• just buy it from the Black Lion Trading Company

So, you don’t need to be a hardcore gamer to understand where the most difficult part of obtaining these items lays on. Yes, I’m talking about the gold. Because anyone can make the gift of mastery and the gift of fortune with ease, and not feeling half way through!
So that’s it…? More than half of the legendary weapon is just about gold? What about being a master of the game? Am I a master of the game just because I farmed the “cat” out of it? What about being a Dungeon Master? or a Master Crafter, or a Weapon Master, or the the Savior of Tyria, or a Realm Avenger, or perhaps being an arena champion?

To finish this post, I would like to suggest the game developers to review the recipe of the legendary weapons and change it in any way they see fit to match the true concept it was initially theorized. And please remember to keep it freaking hard.

PS. I’m posting this on various sub-forums since it brings various dicussions (precursor prices, adding suggestions, crafting and game discussion). Please use the sub-forum in which you think your response belongs to.

Thank you

Nothing matters… farm gold to be a “True Master of Tyria!”

I agree. Make it so that you have to complete 7 full Achievement categories (Slayer / Bosses / Jumping Puzzles / WvW / Weapon Master / Explorer / etc. ) , i.e. complete all tiers of all achievements in a category to finish that category. And in turn, take out anything that you’d be able to buy with gold. To be truly legendary, you will then indeed have to be a master of the game, instead a master of a credit card.