Guild Wars 2

With the release of raids well upon us and legendary gear to come, I was wondering what the discussion is like on runes and sigils that are placed in these high-tier items. As it stands there is no difference upgrade-wise between exotic gear and Legendary gear. A lot of the new pieces of content (raids, world events) encourage you dig into the unique roles in GW2’s combat system, and runes and sigils are important pieces in that puzzle no doubt.

So would it make sense, especially from a market standpoint, to allow players the option of swapping runes and sigils on Legendary gear within the gear itself to better compliment their build? I have not switched off Strength Runes since I bought them because they cost 10 times as much as the rune I want to slot to run a condi build. I do have a set of gear for running conditions, but, assuming that we will be able to stat-change Legendary Armor, it would be very helpful to have runes equipped that compliment the stats and role that I switch to without having to shell out tons of gold each time.

I’d propose allowing players to tether a maximum of 3 runesets and 3 sigils to their gear, maybe through a mastery track, and incorporate a fee that is similar to the old repair costs for changing them over.

i think there should be some npc where you can unlock each rune/sigil permanently for legendary weapons/armor by giving 1 of that rune/sigil to the npc

that would really make the possiblity to switch stats actually reall useful and not just a bit useful

Firstly legendaries are equal to ascended gear not exotics.

Secondly I and many in my guild are apprehensive about getting Legendary armour because of the rune situation. Strength runes cost some 11g per rune making it between 60g and 70g to get a full set depending on market fluctuation. Let’s say I switch stats for WvW and now need to use hoelbrak runes, well that’s another 15g and then up to 70g to switch back.

Why isn’t this as much of a problem on the weapons? Well simply because it’s 2 sigils and outside of some really stupid sigils like generosity they’re all reasonably cheap to switch out if you want.

Personally I’d prefer legendary armour to remember runes bound to each piece, it won’t be cheap to get the options as you still need a full set but at least it makes legendary armour worth getting instead of just another super expensive ascended armour.

They should just add the ability to swap sigils/runes in the same way you can swap stats. No need to add any complications to this.

Legendary weapons never had that option, so its unlikely that legendary armor gonna get it. Legendary items are here just for skins and achievement.