Guild Wars 2

We’ve all been hard at work on our legendaries and there’s one question that’s been burning at the back of my mind for quite some time now. If I transmute, say, Kudzu onto a bow with stats that are actually beneficial to my build and it retains its purple legendary status, will it receive a stat boost when all of the ascended gear goes live?

This is probably more a question for the dev team as they’re the ones working on Ascended gear, but hey. The community knows things too.

no, when you transmute you take the stats of one item and the appearance of another, so what you would be doing is taking the kudzu skin and applying it to whatever bow has the stats you want, the new bow will not be legendary it will be exotic but with the appearance of kudzu

The patch notes clearly indicates that the higher rarity of the two transmuted items will be preserved, thus a transmuted legendary should still be legendary regardless of the stats you decided to take.

I know this. I’m asking if that transmuted legendary will have ascended stats when ascended weapons go live.

Viking Jorun.5413:

I know this. I’m asking if that transmuted legendary will have ascended stats when ascended weapons go live.

My assumption is yes. Otherwise, what’s the point of telling the players that transmuted legendaries currently being demoted to exotic is a bug? They seem to want to preserve the legendary status, and should be treated equally among the other non-transmuted legendaries.

been wondering this myself, id certianly HOPE that this would bethe case, its supposed to retain its legendary status when you transmute it… wouls be nice if a dev could give us a hint on their intent here though…

The question is, will the stats revert back to P/V/T when the ascended stats are added?

Auri El.1032:

The question is, will the stats revert back to P/V/T when the ascended stats are added?

Maybe they’ll implement ways to change the legendary stats without having to transmute? I just want my transmuted legendary to get the update it deserves once ascended weapons are introduced, regardless of stats they decide to put.

It would be great to get a official answer on this.

I’m a bit curious as to what would happen if you transmuted a Legendary with the stats of a non-max stat weapon of a different stat distribution, say a lvl 80 Masterwork. If the Legendary ends up having the same stats as a lvl 80 exotic (max-stat) with the transmuted weapon’s stat distribution, that would mean it works as we expect.

If someone would try that and report on the results then it could lend us some insight on how the stat scaling would work once ascended weapons are introduced.

umm now that eva is monitoring the forums again, any hope of a hint regarding whats intended?

Really dont wanna skrew up my legendary