Guild Wars 2

According to the recent blog posts the gap between the Excotic precursor weapons and the Legendary weapons is too big. I think I’ve come up with a relatively simple solution to bridge this gap. The idea is inspired by the way you obtain the Master Sword in “The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword”, which is by gradually having the Goddess Sword you recieve early in the game grow as you play through the game.

How it would work:

• You obtain the precursor item
• Depending on the precursor, you have to add the gifts in a certain order using the Mystic Forge, one at a time
• For every step completed, the precursor starts to look more like the Legendary (each stage could just be it’s own seperate item to avoid unnecessary scripting)
• Upon completing the final step (which should be gift specific to that legendary) the precursor will become a Legendary. The difference in looks between the penultimate precursor and the legendary should still be quite large so the last step feels just that more important

This way the players working towards a Legendary weapon can show their progress to others more easily, and it should make them feel more rewarded along the way. Please discuss.

As it stands, the 3 Gifts you must add to the final recipe are:

Gift of Mastery
Gift of Fortune
Gift of (Legendary Name)

I would suggest being able to apply the specific Legendary Gift to the forge with the precursor to acquire an intermediate effect to show a sign of progress. Since the other 2 final Gifts are pretty general, I doubt it would work well with those.

Auesis.7301:

As it stands, the 3 Gifts you must add to the final recipe are:

Gift of Mastery
Gift of Fortune
Gift of (Legendary Name)

I would suggest being able to apply the specific Legendary Gift to the forge with the precursor to acquire an intermediate effect to show a sign of progress. Since the other 2 final Gifts are pretty general, I doubt it would work well with those.

I don’t think a single intermediate stage would bridge the gap quite well enough. Maybe since the Mystic Forge requires four items, a few items that differ per Legendary could be added along with the general two gifts.