Guild Wars 2

Legendary weapons all come with a sigil. I understand that trasmuting the weapon for different stats will interfere with its legendary status, and it would not allow the weapon to be “ascended” whenever that happens.

I wonder, does anyone know if ArenaNet specified whether replacing the sigil will have a similar effect? We can all speculate whether it will or not, but unless ANet said yes or no, it’s all worthless speculation.

I have found no official word on this. Please let me know if anyone is aware of any posts, new or old, where they clarify if that would be ok.

Also, if an ANet representative would clarify this, it would be greatly appreciated.

It didn’t matter for the Triforge Pendant that I had added a gem to my Emerald Pendant. So I highly doubt the sigil will affect the weapon.

That is, unless sigils are removed when ascended weapons are added (but I somewhat doubt that will happen).

This question was asked a thousand times before. Changing the sigil does not affect the legendary tier, it will still stay legendary.

changed the sigil in my Juggernaught because the sigil it comes with is possibly the most useless one of all.

i also really doubt even transmuting it from it’s base Soldier stats to something else will make it impossible for Arenanet to “Ascend” the item down the road.

Only transmuting will result in the new item nolonger having the ladgendary status. This is because the status of transmutated item is taken from whatever you use in the stats slot making it an exotic.
Sigils do not do this

While your reasoning is sound Grassrab, and I sort of assumed it would work that way, I wouldn’t call this question answered without some input from ANet, or some link to an official response on this.
No offense, but without some official response, I’m risking months of work just because “it makes sense”. We all know that “what makes sense” doesn’t always happen.

Appreciate the input folks. Still hope to hear from the powers that be.

IMO it all depends how changing legendaries into ascended equvalent will be handled. We know that trinkets have only infusion slot but no idea how it will be with weapons. Will they have sigil AND infusion slot? If not, the worst that could happen is that you will loose your sigil, not a big deal in most cases.

I stand with Grizzly, not everything that makes sense happens in MMOs.