Guild Wars 2

So the other night, I threw a bunch of exotics in and got The Bard, which is the precursor to the focus. And something struck me….a lot of people spend SO much time and effort grinding for a legendary and when you finally craft it….nothing happens except the standard text of you have been rewarded with such and such…etc etc.

SWTOR had a lot of faults, but when you crafted your first lightsaber, there was a cut scene..and a sense of achievement. I find it odd, that in GW2, they can make cutscenes and nice animations for the ultimately awful Living story, yet one of the biggest achievements in the permanent game gets NOTHING? No cutscene, no voiceover, no nothing special to cap what is supposedly one of the main aims of the game?

Should Anet maybe revise this process?

First they need to make legendaries account bound on acquire, then we can talk about cutscenes and voiceovers.

Legendaries are account bound, as are all Ascended gear. This changed in the big April update:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/account-bound-wxp-legendaries-and-ascended-gear/

It’s not Account Bound.

It’s Account Bound on Use.

There’s a big difference.

Personally I think that the mystic forge should do something when a legendary is crafted. We get a big noise every time somebody reads an experience scroll, so why is crafting a legendary so anticlimactic? I am not asking for the floor around the forge to become a disco and Le Freak to break out when somebody crafts The Moot (well OK, maybe I am), but a change in colour of the Mystic Forge’s light and some sort of sound effect like a low rumble or an angelic chorus of “Aaah” or whatever would be great. Something that would make the people nearby think “cool, someone just crafted a legendary!”

I think cormac’s onto something there, it would be nice to have something like that implemented. It is a big deal for a lot of people, especially first-timers. Also imagine setting up a whole group of people around the forge, all about to craft a legendary and a massive chorus or huge disco party erupts around the forge. Zommoros wouldn’t know what hit him.

Morsus.5106:

First they need to make legendaries account bound on acquire, then we can talk about cutscenes and voiceovers.

They used to be soulbound on use and were not able to be placed on the TP. Not sure why they ever changed this.

Cormac.3871:

Personally I think that the mystic forge should do something when a legendary is crafted. We get a big noise every time somebody reads an experience scroll, so why is crafting a legendary so anticlimactic? I am not asking for the floor around the forge to become a disco and Le Freak to break out when somebody crafts The Moot (well OK, maybe I am), but a change in colour of the Mystic Forge’s light and some sort of sound effect like a low rumble or an angelic chorus of “Aaah” or whatever would be great. Something that would make the people nearby think “cool, someone just crafted a legendary!”

Wow wonder this hasn’t been brought up before…..
Quick Anet implement this before I finish my Legendary

Static.9841:

They used to be soulbound on use and were not able to be placed on the TP. Not sure why they ever changed this.

only 50% true.
they used to be soulbound on use
but before you soulbound it, you COULD sell it on the TP.

now they are account-bound on use
and you can still sell it on the TP before you account-bind it.

the only time you could not sell legendaries on the TP was when you couldn’t make legendaries when the game was first released (I think it was a bug… one of the gifts was unmakable at the time)

Static.9841:

Morsus.5106:

First they need to make legendaries account bound on acquire, then we can talk about cutscenes and voiceovers.

They used to be soulbound on use and were not able to be placed on the TP. Not sure why they ever changed this.

So that you could pass it among your characters and use it on whichever one you wanted. Soulbound on Use means you CAN put it on the TP, as long as you don’t use it. Just like Account bound on Use.

Well I remember that during the first couple month of the game, there were no legendary on the TP at all. Then 1 by 1 over a couples of weeks they began to appear in the TP. It was a long time ago and at that time i wasn,t really interested in Legendary (now i have 3).

So I don’t know if at first the legendary initially were account-bind on acquire and souldbind on equip and then at some point they remove the accound-bind on acquire so people could sell them.

Or if it was never accound bind on acquire and it simply that everybody making legendary during the first months were keeping them and then suddently people start to sell them. It’s possible, but I find it unlikely since I remember that they all start to appear on the TP in like 2-3 weeks after like 3-4 months since the game release.

I don’t seem to be able to find out any information about Anet changing the legendary status last year, so i don’t know.

Morsus.5106:

First they need to make legendaries account bound on acquire, then we can talk about cutscenes and voiceovers.

Would be pointless to make them accountbound now, plus considering how many people brag around of all the hundreds of dollars they spent to buy their Legendaries, I am never seeing devs getting rid of a big source of income. Besides, if prices keep going like that, precursors will be more expensive than Legendaries so to speak -.-

Lankybrit.4598:

It’s not Account Bound.

It’s Account Bound on Use.

There’s a big difference.

forget about it legendary is all about skins and nothing else. So either way we have wardrobe

I would have liked to see them account bound on creation, precursors given a scavenger hunt or some adventure-crafting to get, a nice cutscene/music/discopartyaroundtheforge would also be good when they are forged. ( as long as I get to go to the forge and make It happen for me too even though I already have mine)

Legendary are account bound on creation wth is wrong with you people -_- don’t you play the game?? https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/account-bound-wxp-legendaries-and-ascended-gear read the darn post….

Mono.7320:

Legendary are account bound on creation wth is wrong with you people -_- don’t you play the game?? https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/account-bound-wxp-legendaries-and-ascended-gear read the darn post….

They only get bound when you use them for the 1st time, before you do that you can sell them on the market.

Mono.7320:

Legendary are account bound on creation wth is wrong with you people -_- don’t you play the game?? https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/account-bound-wxp-legendaries-and-ascended-gear read the darn post….

" Legendary weapons will continue to be tradeable until equipped, at which point they will become account-bound (rather than soulbound)."

poor guy clearly never made a legendary…

It would be cool to get a “legendary” buff after crafting a legendary. Something similar to a birthday booster. Maybe even pass on the buff to guild members or party members.

If they are account bound, how can players sell them?

Mystic.5934:

Static.9841:

They used to be soulbound on use and were not able to be placed on the TP. Not sure why they ever changed this.

only 50% true.
they used to be soulbound on use
but before you soulbound it, you COULD sell it on the TP.

now they are account-bound on use
and you can still sell it on the TP before you account-bind it.

the only time you could not sell legendaries on the TP was when you couldn’t make legendaries when the game was first released (I think it was a bug… one of the gifts was unmakable at the time)

This is 100% untrue. When I first made Incinerator, no legendaries were able to be sold on the TP, it was implemented shortly after where people were able to sell them.

OK then… I’ll fix it:

they used to be account bound + soulbound on use and you couldn’t sell them on the TP

then they were soulbound on use
but before you soulbound it, you COULD sell it on the TP.

now they are account-bound on use
and you can still sell it on the TP before you account-bind it.

I wasn’t in the legendary market years ago. I was talking about the update they did like a month ago.

Even if you had an epic cutscene, the Minstrel doesn’t make you feel at all legendary compared to pretty much any other one.

Mono.7320:

Legendary are account bound on creation wth is wrong with you people -_- don’t you play the game?? https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/account-bound-wxp-legendaries-and-ascended-gear read the darn post….

Way to go off on one and be totally wrong.

Every legendary is sellable on the trading post until its owner either equips it, unlocks the skin, selects its stats, or applies a sigil to it. At which point, it then becomes ACCOUNT BOUND.