Guild Wars 2

How do I transfer my legendary to alts? Without losing legendary status?

You’d have to transmute it to a white weapon. Then that will make it account bound. Afterwards, you’d log onto your alt and use a Transmutation Splitter to split the legendary from the white. It will come out soulbound.

kyro.8162:

You’d have to transmute it to a white weapon. Then that will make it account bound. Afterwards, you’d log onto your alt and use a Transmutation Splitter to split the legendary from the white. It will come out soulbound.

But will we still be able to choose the stats out of combat? And the stats themselves won’t be “legendary”. So in short, there’s no way to actually transfer the legendary itself to an alt. Only the skin.

Will I be able to switch it to an alt and keep the legendary/ascended status?

Yes it will be a fully operational legendary.

bhagwad.4281:

kyro.8162:

You’d have to transmute it to a white weapon. Then that will make it account bound. Afterwards, you’d log onto your alt and use a Transmutation Splitter to split the legendary from the white. It will come out soulbound.

But will we still be able to choose the stats out of combat? And the stats themselves won’t be “legendary”. So in short, there’s no way to actually transfer the legendary itself to an alt. Only the skin.

Well that’s what I did with my Howler. And it still retains its’ legendary status.

bhagwad.4281:

kyro.8162:

You’d have to transmute it to a white weapon. Then that will make it account bound. Afterwards, you’d log onto your alt and use a Transmutation Splitter to split the legendary from the white. It will come out soulbound.

But will we still be able to choose the stats out of combat? And the stats themselves won’t be “legendary”. So in short, there’s no way to actually transfer the legendary itself to an alt. Only the skin.

Transmutation Splitter…

I know I posted this in a couple other threads but here’s how it goes:

Before there was Transmutation Splitter:
You’d transmute your legendary onto a white item, which makes it account bound thus allowing you to transfer it to an alt. But it becomes Transmuted instead of Legendary. Then you’d transmute it onto some exotic weapon with stats of your choice thus ending up with a transmuted weapon instead of a legendary, with exotic stats.

After Transmutation splitter is introduced:
Transmutation of legendary onto white and transferring to alt still works the same way. BUT you don’t have to transmute it onto exotic anymore. Use a splitter on the alt on which you want your legendary (splitter makes all split components soulbound so you have to use splitter on the alt that you want legendary on) and it returns:
Legendary (with legendary stats and everything) + white item used for transmutation + Sigil – all of these soulbound. And the stats on the Legendary returned can be perfectly switched when OOC, and infused etc since now it is no longer transmuted. It follows same rules as a freshly crafted Legendary.

I know, long wall of text but hope it’s helpful for you guys out there. And yes, I’ve tried it 3 times with 2 of my legendaries and works perfectly as explained above.

Thanks phaneo – one problem solved when I get my legendary and want to do that.

Under normal circumstances this would more than likely be considered an exploit. Because it promotes multiple gem store transactions they have no problem leaving it alone.

The resulting items from splitter remain soulbound so you aren’t really benefiting from it in terms of currency. So I don’t think it would be considered an exploit. If it becomes tradeable, yes it’d be an exploit. And people with legendaries get splitters for free (I got 2 for 2 legendaries) so initially gem store isn’t involved unless you’re doing multiple transmutes in which case you’re opting to do so.

@phaneo

tried your method didnt seem to work for me so to get my story straight. I transmuted my leg. longbow on to a white longbow bought at the weaponstrader . the transmutation gave me a legendary longbow that looks like a normal white longbow. I guess I should have used the stats of the white longbow and kept the appearance of the leg. Was that my mistake ? Do I have to end up with a leg weapon thats WHITE in stats just appears leg. or a white weapon look a like with leg. stats ?

thanks for your replies.

Just asking because the weapon was soulbound could not transfer it out of the bank tab.

Strider.1827:

@phaneo

tried your method didnt seem to work for me so to get my story straight. I transmuted my leg. longbow on to a white longbow bought at the weaponstrader . the transmutation gave me a legendary longbow that looks like a normal white longbow. I guess I should have used the stats of the white longbow and kept the appearance of the leg. Was that my mistake ? Do I have to end up with a leg weapon thats WHITE in stats just appears leg. or a white weapon look a like with leg. stats ?

thanks for your replies.

Just asking because the weapon was soulbound could not transfer it out of the bank tab.

Well first, I don’t know how the game responds to splitting it if you mashed another white onto that so I would split it back into a legendary and a white before continuing.

What you wanted to end up with is the stats of the white and the skin of the legendary. This makes the item white quality which only go to account bound not soulbound. Then you can move it and split it.

While transmuting, there are usually 3 sections that you get to choose for your end product -
1) Skin (topmost section) – which should be derived from the legendary
2) Base stats (mid-section) – weapon strength, stats, yadda yadda
3) Sigil

So while transmuting onto white item, top section should be Purple/derived from Legendary, mid-section should be from white item, and sigil is upto you if you want to keep it or you’ll lose it permanently. Haven’t tried the other way round i.e., choosing white item skin and legendary stats, since I’d have lost the legendary skin so I’m not really sure if splitter gives legendary back. But I’d say, just go ahead and try it. Would be awesome if it works, if not you could file a support ticket and get your legendary back and repeat the process in a proper way this time.

I wish they would just make the legendary weapons account bound when equipped. They would appeal to me more if they worked that way.

This is a good work around though.

The stats of the weapon determines the rarity. Grab the legendary skin and the white item stat to transfer it to another character.