Guild Wars 2

As soon as I got my legendary, I was expecting it to be dealing tons more damage than the exotic greatsword that I had. I was wrong.

I found out the hard way that Legendary Weapons are exactly the same as exotic weapons, save for the skin.

I don’t really feel that my efforts where worth it (doing 100% map completion, getting the materials, grinding for gold, etc.) I actually was thinking of destroying my Twilight, simply out of rage that I spent all my time for another “Exotic” greatsword. Don’t mistake me, the skin is great and I do love the looks, but I was still disappointed when I saw the stats.

This is why I am proposing for the Legendary Weapons to receive a stat buff that will truly reflect their legendary status. It does not have to be a huge increase, just enough so that there is something to work for.

At this link we all can see that exotics have lower stats than legendary weapons:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fine#Quality

But here are the stats:
Dusk (Exotic)= 995-1100
Twilight (Legendary)= 995-110

Same stats. (Except for the attributes)

Disclaimer: I did a search and did not find any posts relating to this so if there is one with a dev answer, please link it to me.

legendaries are just skins as you found out. It will remain that way. Forever.

Damage? No.
They were intended to be visual rewards only.

Related content? Yes.
There should definitely be more content in the game to introduce us to Legendaries. You not knowing it didn’t have a damage increase is a relevant example as to why players need better introductions to this item tier.

Visuals? Yes.
Personally, I feel the visuals on Legendaries aren’t worth the amount of work they currently pose on players.
If they had greater stats too, it wouldn’t be an issue. But that’s just it, they don’t.

Legendaries are suppose to be as desirable as the epic items in other games which come in better stats AND skins.
So, in my humble opinion, Legendary skins should be amazingly more flamboyant, so much that they are impossible to ignore. (With a check-box to shut down the extra flashy stuff while in dungeons/groups, so you don’t annoy your group)

Same as in gw1 there was pleanty of items you could and did consider as legendary but, they were still only skin upgrades. They did have a post somewhere in here talking about this subject a while ago when the lost shores was released talking about raising some stats to a degree but the reason that they weren’t in the first place was to keep a certain balance in WvW. Not that we won’t see this change in the future as new features items and ascended gear roll out but it will be further down the road. They did also state that when the change does occure that any legendaries already made will automaticly be upgraded as well so you don’t have to do the whole grind again for what you already have.