Guild Wars 2

Mythical Weapons should be what the now-tainted and debased “Legendary” Weapons failed to be:
i.e. Difficult to acquire and related to Achievements, not luck or grind.

Why Achievements and not drops?
The previous Legendary system was flawed in that it did not achieve the desired outcomes of;

• Show off your accomplishments and symbolise all of the things that you’ve been doing (Lead Designer Isaiah Cartwright) nor
• Showing everyone that you are a true master of Guild Wars 2

Legendary weapons became a mockery because the people who acquired them didn’t necessarily have to have done ANYTHING in the game.

Instead, Legendaries came to symbolise fortune.
Fortune in the sense of luck;

• Precursors could only be gained via luck (from The Mystic Forge or a drop)
• Gift of Luck was supposed to mean lots of lucky drops
• Other expensive drops such as Lodestones were also based on luck

AND in the sense of money;

• Completed Legendaries were traded on the market
• Precursors were traded on the market
• Much of the Gift of Luck, Lodestones and other expensive components could be bought from the trading post

New Mythicals can be the revered aspirational status symbols that Legendaries failed to be!

could be.

most say everytime i see a legendary i think more negative things of the person then positive, and it oftend turn out to be true…
i rarely see any one with legendaries which posses the slightest rl skills -.-

but so could be said about most gear, only very little gear requires any rl skill to obtain and all gear you could easily get carried by others to obtain it due to the nature of “every man for himself” instead of the “holy trinity” or something else which required every one in the team to do their part instead of just a few able to drag the rest through.

It’s fine. Just use a basic weapon… You know how many people with legendaries in WvW are sooooooo bad it’s not even funny (actually it is I love killing them)

But they are going to add achievement precursor kind of things no real need to add a new tier

I like the name Mythical Weapons. I wanted to suggest something similar but I’ve never found a proper name for it. You are the man.
My idea of Mythical weapons would be a totally out of context weapons. Things that will really do more than a simple standard visual look. They will not be overpowered but they will have their own mythical skills of huge proportions
None of the current legendaries are really up to the game overall standards. They are basic re-models of the current weapons with some “not so interesting” new looks.
Come on a pistol shooting confetti and a bow shooting rainbows?
These are good as “vanity weapons” equip-able as such in the “Costume window”

Here are some ideas for mythical weapons, of course, designed in GW2 style

Mythical Swords/ Long swords = whip swords or the chainsaw model of Halloween
Mythical pistols = Uzi’s
Mythical rifles = machine guns
Mythical daggers – bladed gauntlets
Mythical short bows – automated crossbows
Mythical long bows – automated shoulder mounted crossbows
Mythical scepters / focuses – power gauntlets / orbs
Mythical staffs – color changing light beams with shape transformation