Guild Wars 2

a user called Auesis had an idea how to implement Legendaries in a non-grindy way which imho still feels quite epic:

More than that, Legendaries wouldn’t be a gold sink. They would be acquired ONLY through a combination of heavy skill-focused challenges, be it from dungeons or playing in the open world in a specific way. Then, they would be a part of that new achievement panel, where you can extract them for any of your characters, but cannot sell.

This would be awesome in my opinion. Legendaries would still be a long-term goal but without having to accumulate that huge amount of mats. People could no longer complain that you have to grind the mats. Achievement points are gained by every single achievement you can get, playing the game the way you want.

I love the skill barrier too. You should proof your worthiness. It’s not “play the dungeon 200 times” but rather: “kill that boss with all those gambits active” etc. (I’m talking about a possible future implementation of gambits in dungeons,… has been datamined not long ago).

quote-source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1osvbp/the_if_i_had_my_way_thread/

I think the reason why legendaries are as they are in the first place is so that people would feel tempted to buy it (with real money).

Zacchary.6183:

I think the reason why legendaries are as they are in the first place is so that people would feel tempted to buy it (with real money).

Do you think it would be better for the game if they weren’t tradeable?

Definitely.

EDIT: Yeah I would like to see this be implimented.