Guild Wars 2

I think it would be great if ANET opened up the creation of the next set of Legendary weapons to the player base in a contest-style voting event.

I’m sure you have some fantastic designers on your team, but with 3 million copies sold, there must be some talent out there that isn’t being tapped into!

If you opened up the forums to have a submission for each category – and then short listed the contenders in a vote style competition, I think you’d be happy with the results, and so would the players.

Let’s face it – some of the current Legendary weapons fell short of expectations, and I think this would help to allow the players to be part of the process.

Don’t get me wrong, some of the legendary weapons are absolutely beautiful, but from the feedback I’ve heard, the scepter and mace users, for example, are a little disappointed.

I am all for user input and having players vote for content is the best way to appease the masses.

Here is a step further:
I had an idea where Anet provides the player base with some type of engine where players can create unique weapons skins. These skins will be screened by Anet and the player base, then voted on monthly. For the winning skins in each category (sword, gs, staff, etc). They will be available in the gem store for a month until the next round is voted on. Since the players are creating, polishing and voting on them, hopefully it should be simple to just upload them to the gem store without much effort on Anets part. A new forum section could be made specifically for models “in project”.

edit: It’s a win-win, Anet will receive more revenue form the gem store and players can create what they want and willing to pay for.

Legendary Rapier?
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This doesn’t look legendary, but I believe it has the highest chance of being the next in game weapon since it’s in the dat file.