Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, i got a small question. Do you maybe have any news regarding to the updates for the “Legendary” weapons? I’ve came across a lot of people who are (like me) finishing up the last bits to get a legendary weapon, but in the first blog which introduced the “Ascended” gear (by Linsey Murdock) there was a small talk of upgrading “Legendary weapons” to be on par with the “Ascended weapons” (which will be released in a far future). Will it be advisable to get a “Legendary” already or do we need to farm from zero when the new stats are available just to get the new stats?

I also heard (in-game) that people are fixing the so called “Transmution Error” of “Legendary” weapons. Do you maybe have any information available of this?

I personally think it should be a nice idea to use the GW1 system of high end gear such as weapons (a skin set, but different stats for each individual skin like the different Tormented scepters in GW NightFall.

I hope we soon have some answers regarding the plans of “Legendary weapons” since a lot of people are asking these questions.

Happy Holidays :-)

Legendary Stat Change:

When the Ascended weapons are here current Legendary stats will be upgraded to meet the stats of the Ascended weapons.

Legendary transmutation:

Currently transmuting a Legendery casues it to loses it’s level of rarity from ‘Legendary’ i.e purple to the same rarity of the item used for stats in the transmutation i.e it will become exotic/rare/fine/masterwork/common etc.

And yes, it would be nice if you could choses the stats of the legendary you received.

Regards,

Riffian

So here is an interesting question, since I haven’t seen it asked as most people make a legendary for the appearance. If I transmute a legendary, and keep the legendary stats but take the appearance of the other item – Would the new item obtain legendary quality? IE Legendary Fractal Longbow for instance? Not that it’s something I see happening. Just a curiosity.

The latest offitial response I saw about “legendary transmutation issue” was like “we are not sure if it’s a bug”… Actually it’s not a bug. It’s “by design”. Rarity = stats. If you transmutate exotic skin with masterwork stats you will have masterwork item as a result. But they should add an exception in case of legendary weapons. I believe ANet will fix it in feature.