Precursors.....
Everything about Legendaries is just completely ridiculous, if you ask me. The material and gold requirements alone — even if you’ve studied the enormous list of stuff and understand where to get it all — is so far beyond anything I will ever achieve in my lifetime, it’s staggering.
But, aside from that, just the logic behind the process is truly bizarre. I mean, one of the requirements is that you have max-level weapon crafting — and another requirement is a weapon. And yet, the weapon you have to obtain isn’t crafted. Instead, you “craft” what is essentially just an otherwise useless pile of junk with no other practical applications.
From what i understand the legendary was meant to take at least 6 months of farming to achieve. If it was just that it would be no problem, however the legendary got hijacked by players with all the gold and gold sellers to make more gold, making precursors almost harder to get than all the other mats to make a legendary weapon, and the rarity of a precursor drop only compounds the problem.
Aside from that, My thoughts would be take the time to make a long and challenging series of story missions and put restrictions on it say you can only do one mission per week or something along those lines. Doing so could yield a precursor and maybe the other required materials or a legendary weapon in its entirety. But that’s only my thoughts it seems fair in my opinion but im not anet not my call to make.