Guild Wars 2

I think Legendaries shouldn’t be in trading post. They shouldn’t cost only gold. They should be special and how is buying an weapon from trading post special ?! It’s not special when your legendary is made by other guy :S

You want it to feel special? Then make it yourself. Problem solved.

I agree with this. The philosophy behind a legendary weapon was that it took parts of all aspects of the game (wvw, gold, karma, farming, mystic forge, etc) to make. If you rob people of this experience, they really shouldn’t be allowed to hold the same weapon. This is about pride, sure, but someone who sits at the trading post all day shouldn’t have earned this privilege.

I completely disagree with this idea. If someone has enough gold to buy a legendary from the TP then why they shouldnt have the ability to do so? Maybe they dont want to farm so much for it or they just want to get it as soon as possible. If someone wants to get it fast throught a lot of wealth instead of spending weeks with seemingly endless work then let them do it. I cant get a legendary either way so I dont really care about this so much but in my opinion people should be able to choose how they want to get their legendary.

I completely agree with removing legendaries from the TP, but then again I also think they should revamp the entire premise behind attaining a legendary (I’d prefer a challenging story-mission chain instead).

i agree the devs originally made it so it would take a person a long time to get the legendary of choice…but buying it straight up for gold doesnt make it an ultimate weapon of hard work. I think legendaries should be the reward of the most supportive hard working gamers. im a casual gamer and i used to be a huge GW2 fan (but im so bored and theres just not many people around to do events anymore.) anyway you shouldnt be able to pull out a wad of cash or farm gold for days just to get a weapon of this magnitude. there should be only ingame items that are account bound that are needed to aquire such a weapon. they should all be rare items and from across the entire map. that way the beholder of these weapons will be respected because of the work they had to do to get it. as to make money in the item shop why not make weapon skins available like armor skins, just dont put up the same legendary skins on the shop. and there are alot of pple gold farming just for these weapons which makes the pve pvp and wvw areas hurt with people doing actual content.

Agreed, there is nothing legendary about buying it, even if it’s for an exporbitant amount of gold the actual methods used to earn that gold are more often than not simple market manipulation. That’s not legendary.

Of course I also can’t stand any of the legendaries anyway and want nothing to do with them.

I could not agree more. It cheapens the entire notion of a legendary weapon. Mind you, there’s not much that’s legendary about them to begin with, but this is just too much.

Clostridium.9832:

I completely disagree with this idea. If someone has enough gold to buy a legendary from the TP then why they shouldnt have the ability to do so? Maybe they dont want to farm so much for it or they just want to get it as soon as possible. If someone wants to get it fast throught a lot of wealth instead of spending weeks with seemingly endless work then let them do it. I cant get a legendary either way so I dont really care about this so much but in my opinion people should be able to choose how they want to get their legendary.

You seem to have things backwards. The only truly ‘hard’ or ‘grind-ey’ part of a legendary weapon is the gold requirement, everything else can easily be acquired through playing the game for awhile (but doesn’t require farming).

Those who merely buy gold with real-life money, or just sit around and play the TP all day shouldn’t be able to just buy a legendary weapon flat out. Removing the requirement for players to actually play the game in order to get a legendary ruins the prestige that should come along with it.

If a rich person wants to buy a Legendary from the TP. Let them, it’s their money and much of it will go to pay for future content.

First of all, “Legendaries” are misnamed. They have no legend behind them. No past. They are made brand-new by players. They should be called “Sparkly Particle Effect, Crazy, Incredible, Amazing, Lovable Skins” (S.P.E.C.I.A.L.S.). But that’s beside the point.

Look at it from the other side. Why shouldn’t someone be allowed to sell his weapon for whatever reason? Maybe he decided after making it that he’d rather have money for something else. Maybe he made it in the first place just to make a buck (sacrilege!). Maybe someone who didn’t want to commit to the grind commissioned him to do it for him.

If your beef is that the person wielding a legendary weapon didn’t go through all the rigamarole involved in creating it, then that’s just your personal problem. I’m sure the seller charges a price that he feels justifies his hard work. And the buyer has somehow managed to accrue thousands of gold, which (to me anyway) is a legendary feat. So you can’t tell me that he hasn’t put in some hard work himself.

I am sure I will never have a legendary (most just don’t appeal to me). Whether they look good or not is just a personal opinion, but when I see someone with one then I know he put in a lot of time. Whether he made it himself, or did other things to earn the money to buy it on the Trading Post, he obviously put in a lot of time and effort doing SOMETHING. I can admire the dedication either way, even if I don’t personally admire the weapon.

I think the OP is wrong. If someone has the gold to buy a Legendary (and the prices are crazy high), then they should be allowed to do so, as long as someone else is willing to sell it.

Legendaries are no longer much legendary after all.. so many people have them now

The devs said they shouldn’t have made them tradeable from the beginning, but also that they won’t change it now because it’s too late.

I’m very happy they are buyable. I rather farm money then those stupid gifts.
I should be able to buy one if I want to, can’t believe some people keep complaining about that. You should be able to achieve your goals YOUR way, not be tied to one specific farming routine.

Also about the name ‘legendary’.. It’s just a name ok!? There is nothing legendary about them.

Some people will complain about anything.

Sedoks.3576:

I think Legendaries shouldn’t be in trading post. They shouldn’t cost only gold. They should be special and how is buying an weapon from trading post special ?! It’s not special when your legendary is made by other guy :S

How is grinding for materials/gold to buy materials and/or precursor any more “special” than buying the Legendary itself? As it is, the Gift of Mastery is just about the only thing that resembles a quest/adventure, and the rest is all grinding of one kind or another. Hopefully the addition of a Scavenger Hunt will shift some of the emphasis away from tedious grinding for a Legendary towards a system that feels more engaging and “heroic”.