Guild Wars 2

I hear a rumor that if you change the default sigil on a legendary, the item will no more be colored purple, but orange (exotic)? Is this true? And does it affect anything else.

Nope. Not true. I’ve changed the sigil on mine several times and it’s still purple. It still says Legendary, still shows purple in the chat when linking it and the name is still the same.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Nope. Not true. I’ve changed the sigil on mine several times and it’s still purple. It still says Legendary, still shows purple in the chat when linking it and the name is still the same.

This.

That rumor you heard is from many months ago. In addition to being able to change the sigil freely on legendary weapons, you can also transmute them without losing the purple text.

Also the real reason why the Legendary changed to Exotic was only when Transmuting. That problem has been fixed. The sigil was just a rumor spread around because of the transmuting problem.