Guild Wars 2

Getting a legendary is just one of those long term goals in GW2 that many players have sought out already and there’s word of new ones and new ones to get them sometime in the future. Unfortunately for a great concept, many have said there isn’t anything legendary about them. And it usually has to do with the unreasonably long grind associated with them.

Now I don’t think legendaries should be just handed out (And if you’re rich, they practically are.) and some hard work should be involved, so there are several ways to make Legendaries better without making them super easy to get. It’s unlikely though with the amount of work that would be involved to make it happen.

First, when you think of a legendary weapon, you may think Excalibur. That sword is one most everyone has heard about because it has a story. The legendaries we have are simply skins that look pretty and nothing more. One idea would be to connect your legendary to your personal story as soon as you soulbind one. Then you would get a quest chain having to do with it to make it feel as if it really is a unique weapon. This would also give reason to have one, if there was more too it than just getting one and standing around showing everyone how much time you invested on a flashy skin.

As it stands now legendaries have no meaning after you get them, and getting them is no fun at all. If we can’t take the grind out, link a quest chain to the precursor perhaps, so people have more to do than a mile long shopping list and feel as if they are accomplishing something meaningful.

Look at how Hodgins in AC seeks out special torches, or how the Pale Tree gives Trahearne his greatsword. Even these small events made these objects more important. I just believe that anything that claims to be legendary should have a legendary story. 2-3 months, or more or less of monotonous grinding or a huge bank transaction is not legendary. It’s irrational.

So that’s just my rant. Love or hate it. I would just like our hard work to mean something. It may or may never be more than a skin, but they’re less “Legendary Weapons” and more “Impaired Judgement” weapons. But still we want them. But wouldn’t you want there to be some fun involved? Your thoughts or own ideas?

Some of the weapons of the gw1 weapon design contest remade, now that would truly be legendary. They have a story and with the current gw2 engine can finally look awesome too.

tl;dr, give me my gw2 bonedragonstaff …..

You may want to check out a similar post from a three months ago Legendary-vs-LEGENDARY! A few items are a little out of date due to game updates (i.e. Badges of Honor) but you get the idea.

Cercie.1025:

Now I don’t think legendaries should be just handed out (And if you’re rich, they practically are.) and some hard work should be involved, so there are several ways to make Legendaries better without making them super easy to get.

Yes if you are rich legendary weapons are handed out to you, and we all know to get rich all it takes is going to a money tree and picking off 1000g at a time. There is absolutely no ‘hard work’ in getting rich – it is all luck.

Why do you think that people who buy legendary weapons don’t deserve them?

I like your quest idea for the legendaries. It would be a lot cooler if you instead got a “quest line” for the item rather than the item itself or at least for the precursor as you suggested.