Guild Wars 2

Now some of you may think that is a silly question – but after 4 months of working on my legendary weapon – it has zip cool animation. The hours, the grind, blah blah blah. And with The Minstrel you get what is in fact a nice little harp. No animation whatsoever, no sound I can hear, nothing at all.
Making the minstrel did not require fewer dungeon runs (and CM paths are way harder than the 10 min CoF runs), lvl 6 mats, clovers, ectos, yadda yadda. And it does NOTHING but sit there and remind me that I sure spent a lot of time for nothing much. I don’t care about globs of what looks like petrol or little flowers on the ground – but could the weapon do SOMETHING cool for all that work? I think I saw a couple notes come off it once, but am not sure at this point.
What a disappointment. I guess if it ain’t a big bad two-handed weapon then the devs just decided not to bother with it.
There should be a warning posted somewhere by Anet that they just lost interest. But note – they can bring out gathering tools that have cool animations – so why don’t they buff up the “legendary” weapons that are basically featureless. . . . . It would be a nice gesture to those of us who went or are even now going to a lot of work for very disappointing results.

I both agree and disagree with some of your points.

I too hold interest in crafting the Ministrel and instead of spending my gold on more dragon coffers and gems, I’m saving up for the precursor that’s currently alot cheaper than I realized the pretty harp would look lovely on my mesmer. Though I noticed that it doesn’t have effects as noticeable as the other, more popular, legendary weapons and it would be nice if they FIXED the issue where the little musical note effect happened more often and the sounds it made happened while it was wielded and used in battle as well, instead of only when it’s drawn.

But then I disagree with your disappointment, did you even preview the weapon before crafting it? There’s codes that people can paste in-game so that you could preview it as well as links to the actual weapon from people who own it for you to preview it. You went through all this work just to point out the aesthetic flaws of the weapon? That’s like the people with 50 points in the HoM rewards calculator going through all that hard work, getting the final title “Champion of the Gods”, and complaining that a title reward isn’t enough to justify the work for all 50 points, I fall in this boat myself and I agreed when people told me that I knew what I was getting from the start, so why complain once I finally had it?