Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet,

Would it be possible for you guys to post an official confirmation if transmuted legendaries will be converted to ascended status once the update to legendary weapons comes out? While I understand there are lots of unofficial responses to this question, I do not feel comfortable transmuting my legendary until I hear an official response. I just worked way too hard to obtain my legendary to have it not upgrade because I trusted an unofficial response.

One of the main reasons that I even decided to obtain a precusor and finish my legendary was the announcement that you were going to upgrade all legendaries to ascended and allow players to switch stats out of combat. If I transmuted and for whatever reason that caused the legendary to not upgrade to ascended, it would negate the entire reason I worked so hard to get a legendary in the first place.

Thank you,

- A Concerned Player

pretty please? ;(

ascended is a tier below legendary….so wouldnt it be a downgrade?

Zerroth.2401:

ascended is a tier below legendary….so wouldnt it be a downgrade?

That’s a good point. I guess for armor it would be exotic → ascended → legendary. However, currently legendaries have exotic stats, so ascended stats would actually be an upgrade.

Maybe…upgrade legendary stats to better than ascended? That would be fine as well! ;D

Chi.2943:

Maybe…upgrade legendary stats to better than ascended? That would be fine as well! ;D

ArenaNet has already said they will never make legendary weapons more powerful than exotic/ascended. Legendaries are suppose to be vanity items only, not unfair advantages to those without them.

jwaz.1908:

Chi.2943:

Maybe…upgrade legendary stats to better than ascended? That would be fine as well! ;D

ArenaNet has already said they will never make legendary weapons more powerful than exotic/ascended. Legendaries are suppose to be vanity items only, not unfair advantages to those without them.

Though they will not have stat advantages when compared to ascended, legendaries will in fact have an advantage to players that have them simply because we will be able to switch stats. People like myself who have 4 legendaries or more will never have to buy these again, and if we are ever in need to change stats we don’t have to pay for it.

I would like to hear their response too. Although most of legendary owners probably transmuted it. Exept those who use soldiers stats. Decision to not upgrade transmuted legendary would make majority of legendary owners very….very angry. And i dont suppose they want to make so many people so much angry.

There has been an ‘object’ that was data mined that will take a transmuted item and revert it back to it’s core two components. Sorta like a reverse transmutation.

If they have this capability, then you should have no problem un-transmuting your legendary. At the very least, it may cost a little $$ to obtain this item to un-transmute, but it should be doable.

Dempsey.8760:

Though they will not have stat advantages when compared to ascended, legendaries will in fact have an advantage to players that have them simply because we will be able to switch stats. People like myself who have 4 legendaries or more will never have to buy these again, and if we are ever in need to change stats we don’t have to pay for it.

That is more of a convenience than an actual “advantage”, but I suppose that’s just opinion. Seeing that legendary weapons cost 800+ gold on average, not having to buy another of that weapon type is a very, very fair advantage.

Though, you forgot to consider sigils, if you can’t freely change the sigil of a legendary weapon (as with the stats), you’ll have to have multiple of weapons to accommodate different sigils.

All I can say is, I’m hoping they make legendary weapons account bound along with the other changes, so I can move the three of mine freely among different characters.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

There has been an ‘object’ that was data mined that will take a transmuted item and revert it back to it’s core two components. Sorta like a reverse transmutation.

If they have this capability, then you should have no problem un-transmuting your legendary. At the very least, it may cost a little $$ to obtain this item to un-transmute, but it should be doable.

Or another solution, if they will not find any normal way how to do it, they could just take away all legendary weapons from their owners any send them by mail totaly new untransmuted legendary back. There is no reason why they could not do it. No one will lose anything, everyone who lost his legendary will get it back ready to be transformed.