Guild Wars 2

Hi, today I saw one in my group who had a legendary and the dmg was just the same and stats as my Mystic Claymore, so why should I craft a legenday? For the looks? Achievements? Because if I already have best in slot item why should I try to get one with amazing looks that takes a loooooooooooooooooooong time to get?

This is called Horizontal progression. This game is all about cosmetic rewards, power progression is meant to be obtained in skill not superior number of stats. That being said don’t even bring up the ascended gear/gear treadmill/arenanet’s lied to us argument because frankly we have no idea where that’s going yet.

Other than skin..

Anet said legendaries’ stats would always be upgraded to the best of the ascended stats. So.. if you get a legendary, you never need to worry about upgrading your weapon if Anet adds more vertical progression.

Legendary Items will always be Top Tier.

Finished my Sunrise this weekend. Never have to worry ever again

Hey Fall,

The way I see it is I’ll get a legendary one day by simply playing the game. The reason for me personally to craft a legendary is to show that I’ve been around for a couple years… because that’s how long it’s going to take me

Cheers!

Make legendary for achievement I guess.
When you craft something that’s hard, you gain a sense of achievement.

Actually looking at now, legendary isn’t hard to get. Someone even have 5 legendary running around now.

Do it for the pixels! and the medal :P

penatbater.4710:

Do it for the pixels! and the medal :P

^This. There is no actual progression reason to craft a legendary. It’s purely cosmetic and will likely always be(having in mind the current easiness of obtaining exotic gear and that ascended will probably be based around the same principle…it’d take 100 new tiers for legendary to end up cheaper than simply upgrading to the new weapon type that comes).

I am slowly building the 2 universal Legendary gifts so I’m at least sorta ready should they intruduce a legendary weapon I think looks good for one of my character themes (several exisitng ones look good, jiust not for my characters), or they introduce legendary armor that rocks on toast.

Because you want one. I’m making the Bifrost because I like the looks. I’m using D/D most of the time now, but I don’t like the Incinerator as much (though it would be easier to make) + I have 2 really cool dagger skins already.

fall.8736:

Hi, today I saw one in my group who had a legendary and the dmg was just the same and stats as my Mystic Claymore, so why should I craft a legenday? For the looks? Achievements? Because if I already have best in slot item why should I try to get one with amazing looks that takes a loooooooooooooooooooong time to get?

There’s your asnwer…

Do you want a legendary? If so, then yes you should craft one. If you do not want one, well, then you should spend your efforts on something else. Simple.

xerca.6135:

Do you want a legendary? If so, then yes you should craft one. If you do not want one, well, then you should spend your efforts on something else. Simple.

Agree. A legendary should not be easy to get. It should have to take a lot of time and effort yo obtain. I seriously do not have time to get a Legendary, so I will just get next best thing with the stats.

All about choices.

Only thing is legendaries do not come with the stats I want. Only reason I’m not making one.

i think in this sense.. it really is, because you can.
obviously if you enjoy the skin, go nuts! if not, then you can stay just as happy with your mystic claymore (which i think is a great skin in itself).

true they will be upgraded to ascended status or remain “best-in-slot” stats wise in the long run, but at this point in time, i don’t think we can truly say where the pink gear is heading or the general “gear” rarity types overall.

so for now, you do it for the looksD and it’s something to work towards for me. don’t get me wrong, i just pop on and have fun.. i’ll do dailies, monthlies, what not, and slowly accumulate what i need for th elegendary. it’s not the end-goal. but a.. by-product, if you will.. for lack of a better way of putting it. a giant bonus! to playing a game that i have so much fun with.

Wizardauz.3761:

Legendary Items will always be Top Tier.

Finished my Sunrise this weekend. Never have to worry ever again

This, I finished my Incinerator last week, now I don’t have to worry about upgrading 2 weapons each time they decide to make a new progression.

Other than that, the reason; you might reach a point where you have what you want for your main and maybe your alts (in my case it was my main) and wonder what there is to spend money on any more – not to mean, “Oh my look how much money I have”, I don’t and I certainly didn’t have a lot at the time. But I came to the conclusion that the only real thing left to persue was either one of the special weapons (ie in the league of Foefire’s Essence, Volcanus, etc) or a Legendary.

Having looked at most of the skins available I decided I wanted an Incinerator because nothing really came close to it and I personally think Quip is absolutely god-awful, which is a shame becuase pistol would have been my go-to choice – I also have no idea how you can get a clown gun out of something as awesome looking as the Chaos Gun!

It’s not necessary at all to get one, if you don’t like any of the skins or don’t like any of them for your main, you can always spend your money (big or small) on a skin you DO like and transmute it along the way as upgrades get introduced. However, I don’t regret it, it may only be a skin, but it will always upgrade and damn if I don’t just love this thing – it also changes certain attack animations, for example, when I use a thrown steal item or use dancing dagger, instead of the regular animation, I now throw my incinerator at the enemy! What can I say, I’m a sucker for these things!

People be thinkin you gots mad skill with a legendary.

Wizardauz.3761:

Legendary Items will always be Top Tier.

Finished my Sunrise this weekend. Never have to worry ever again

uh you did see the statement in the AMA where he said there would be tiers within rarities right, cause that means you’ll get legendary 2 which will be bis tier 2 then normal legendaries would be top tier 1

I would think the obvious answer would be to give you a long term goal.

Dempsey.8760:

Only thing is legendaries do not come with the stats I want. Only reason I’m not making one.

there purely for the looks and to boast such an achievement , i dont really care about the stats lol

The moment they add vertical progression to weapons, a huge group of people will probably look to quit the game. I’m already done with this game in terms of PvE content after the ascended rings (spvp only, and a little wvw). Especially if its grindy.