Guild Wars 2

Ok so its clear with the recent update that legendary weapons are and have always intended stat wise to be “equal to the best in slot stat wise” (see the devs recent post regarding ascended items and intent to upgrade existing legendaries to those stats in future).

One thing however that is still NOT addressed is what if “best in slot” to a character dosent mean power/vit/tough stats?

Its also a fact that if stats are what your after getting the best in slot item you want stat wise is, and always will (or at least it should) be trivial compared to the work needed to get a legendary. Furthermore the best in slot stats may change several times a day depending on your build.

Perhaps a way to add to the legendary weapons would be to either freely (at an NPC) or for a cheap recipe (at say the mystic forge) be able to have their stats changed at will by the user: For example if someone wants knight stats on their juggernaught add a mystic forge recipe: juggernaught + armored scale + mystic coin + locked black lion chest (just randomly adding it as an example).

Another change they should probably consider making is to make legendaries account bound and not bind on equip so people dont use this later to sell them. Also would be cool and encourage people playing alts.

Again if its just stats your worried about, getting one of each of the crafted weapons for a weapon type is trivialy easy and cheap when compared to what the player had to go through forging a single legendary (1 mill karma, 350 skill points, 500 wvw tokens, 500 dungeon tokens, 100% map completion, etc on average).