Guild Wars 2

I’ve been poking around at the list of Legendaries to see if there was something I should try and shoot for, and I have to say I’m very surprised overall at their stats.

I thought it was odd that there was basically only one of every type of weapon, except for the two greatswords. So I guess that is okay in and of itself, except that the stats on these don’t seem that helpful.

The main example I’m looking at is Kudzu- the stats are split between Power/Toughness/Vitality, which, since DPS builds are basically king in this game, makes it less useful than Zojja’s Greatbow’s Power/Precision/Ferocity stats. And the base damage is the same between these two. Kudzu also comes with the lame (to me) Sigil of Celerity which seems less useful to a bow than the Sigil of Accuracy. Zojja’s Greatbow also gives you the two infusion slots while Kudzu has none. If they didn’t support infusions, I might have expected you to get at least 3 regular upgrade slots. So my takeaway from this is that as regards to bows, the Legendaries are not the BiS gear, even though based on their costs you would think they would be. Do other players agree with this assumption or am I wrong here? Is it really worth all the extra expense just to get footprints and the ability to say you did it?

Your information isn’t updated. Legendaries are BiS.

Eggman.1405:

The main example I’m looking at is Kudzu- the stats are split between Power/Toughness/Vitality, which, since DPS builds are basically king in this game, makes it less useful than Zojja’s Greatbow’s Power/Precision/Ferocity stats.

The stats of legendary weapons can be changed when out of combat, so that doesn´t really matter.

Caliga Meshima.4768:

Your information isn’t updated. Legendaries are BiS.

Where is the accurate information posted? Right now I’m looking at the wiki.

Turamarth.3248:

The stats of legendary weapons can be changed when out of combat, so that doesn´t really matter.

How exactly does that process work? I’ve been told before that I should be able to transfer stats between weapons, but the transmutation charges only appear to affect skins.

I have legendary weapons, so Ill just tell you.

Legendary weapons can have their stats switched to whatever you prefix you want, when you are not in combat. Example: Berserker stat set, Soldier stat set, etc etc.

Legendary weapons are also the equal of ascended weapons in terms of base damage, and will always be upgraded to the strongest tier of gear automatically.

All Legendary weapons do infact have infusion slots.

Caliga Meshima.4768:

Legendary weapons can have their stats switched to whatever you prefix you want, when you are not in combat. Example: Berserker stat set, Soldier stat set, etc etc.

So then basically this is the property that makes the Legendary BiS, since for any given stat configuration you can make an Ascended weapon to match it?

Legendaries are basically all weapons of that same type, into one weapon. You will never have to change it out for another same weapon type with different stats since you can just change its own stats.

So yes, this is what makes Legendaries best in slot.

You can change the stats of any legendary anytime you are not in combat by double clicking the weapon. Then a drop down pops up with all the prefix on weapon choices ie zerker, Valkyrie, soldiers, knights etc. The only prefix you cant do is givers, zealot and nomad. Not sure why but you cant. As for BiS, as stated before by the devs, anytime there is a new tier of weapons introduced, legendaries will be boosted to that level as well so you will never need to upgrade or change your legendary unless you want zealot, givers or nomad weapons. Then you will need to make those ascended.

Sauzo.6821:

You can change the stats of any legendary anytime you are not in combat by double clicking the weapon. Then a drop down pops up with all the prefix on weapon choices ie zerker, Valkyrie, soldiers, knights etc. The only prefix you cant do is givers, zealot and nomad. Not sure why but you cant. As for BiS, as stated before by the devs, anytime there is a new tier of weapons introduced, legendaries will be boosted to that level as well so you will never need to upgrade or change your legendary unless you want zealot, givers or nomad weapons. Then you will need to make those ascended.

Just for clarification: Givers is not included in the Legendary Stat choice because there is no ascended givers weapons either.
Zealot is not included because its an exotic stat, the name of the ascended stat combo with Pow/Pre/Heal is Keepers, which is included in the stat choice of Legendaries.

Nomad again is the name of the exotic stat, the asc stat is called Ventari.
However, last time I checked Ventari wasnt selectable on Legendaries but Anet already acknowledged that that was an oversight and will be added with a future patch.

Wanze.8410:

Sauzo.6821:

You can change the stats of any legendary anytime you are not in combat by double clicking the weapon. Then a drop down pops up with all the prefix on weapon choices ie zerker, Valkyrie, soldiers, knights etc. The only prefix you cant do is givers, zealot and nomad. Not sure why but you cant. As for BiS, as stated before by the devs, anytime there is a new tier of weapons introduced, legendaries will be boosted to that level as well so you will never need to upgrade or change your legendary unless you want zealot, givers or nomad weapons. Then you will need to make those ascended.

Just for clarification: Givers is not included in the Legendary Stat choice because there is no ascended givers weapons either.
Zealot is not included because its an exotic stat, the name of the ascended stat combo with Pow/Pre/Heal is Keepers, which is included in the stat choice of Legendaries.

Nomad again is the name of the exotic stat, the asc stat is called Ventari.
However, last time I checked Ventari wasnt selectable on Legendaries but Anet already acknowledged that that was an oversight and will be added with a future patch.

Well that explains that. Anyways who would use anything but zerkers!!!??

Sauzo.6821:

Wanze.8410:

Sauzo.6821:

You can change the stats of any legendary anytime you are not in combat by double clicking the weapon. Then a drop down pops up with all the prefix on weapon choices ie zerker, Valkyrie, soldiers, knights etc. The only prefix you cant do is givers, zealot and nomad. Not sure why but you cant. As for BiS, as stated before by the devs, anytime there is a new tier of weapons introduced, legendaries will be boosted to that level as well so you will never need to upgrade or change your legendary unless you want zealot, givers or nomad weapons. Then you will need to make those ascended.

Just for clarification: Givers is not included in the Legendary Stat choice because there is no ascended givers weapons either.
Zealot is not included because its an exotic stat, the name of the ascended stat combo with Pow/Pre/Heal is Keepers, which is included in the stat choice of Legendaries.

Nomad again is the name of the exotic stat, the asc stat is called Ventari.
However, last time I checked Ventari wasnt selectable on Legendaries but Anet already acknowledged that that was an oversight and will be added with a future patch.

Well that explains that. Anyways who would use anything but zerkers!!!??

Personally, i am working on my 4th ascended build now, i only play warrior, mostly wvw. My first one was Soldier, which basically is the meta build for wvw warriors.
My second one was Zerker for the odd pve content i play. My third one was Sentinel, basically the same stats as soldier but focussing on high vit to more effectively counter the condi meta. Right now I am working on the new Ventari gear to see how invincible i can get on a Warrior.

Zerker is actually the one i use the least.