Guild Wars 2

So if I understand everything right legendary weapons can be transmutated, at the minor coz of rarity dropping to exotic while retaining all of their stats.

Well let’s go over where this weapon would come in play.

In SPvP it’s useless because all your regular gear is replaced with blank gear that only gets stats from runes and sigils. Same for TPvP.

In WvWvW one guy with a big gun makes no difference, enemies can just gank you or retreat to a castle.

However, I am sternly against all systems that allows a guy to own a whole party because he “has a better weapon”, espcially when everybody is suppose to be level adjusted.

Also there’s times, rare as they are, when neither side has the numbers advantage, when there is no close walls to hide behind, in short, where that one guy matters.

Since legendary weapons will either be extremely expensive or take an eternity to make only a few will have them – For that very reason I request that legendaries can never be transmutated, for the sole purpose of being able to easily recognize a bearer of one and focus-fire him.

It’s a fair trade-off. If you want a weapon that the majority don’t have, you should also accept that you become at attention-drawer that people will try to take down as quickly as possible.

Same with legendary gear if it arrives in the future.

i thought legendaries have same stats as exotic… and people bother to have legendaries just because they LOOK like Awesome with unic FX…
wouldn’t be a huge waste of money and time to replace a legendary with the look of a common rare or exotic appearance?
and when legendaries will have ascended stats, i bet we can all have ascended gear like we all have exotic now…

Amadan.9451:

i thought legendaries have same stats as exotic… and people bother to have legendaries just because they LOOK like Awesome with unic FX…
wouldn’t be a huge waste of money and time to replace a legendary with the look of a common rare or exotic appearance?
and when legendaries will have ascended stats, i bet we can all have ascended gear like we all have exotic now…

I doubt it, that wouldn’t be profitable.
It’s clear by now that ANet wants money money and money. If this is due to greed or a fear to get shut down by NCSoft and Nexon I don’t know.
But from a profit standpoint, legendary=rare but powerful gear that costs a lot or takes very long to make=people buy gold to either buy them or buy mats to make them=PROFIT.
The way they see it it’s fair to have it so that you can just buy it with enough dosh or invest time to get it for free. It’s time investment vs real money investment, as always.
While I disagree with such a system it would not make them nearly as much profit to make legendary gear as easy to obtain as exotic is today.