Guild Wars 2

The biggest hint comes from their looking ahead article:

In addition, we’ll also improve the functionality of legendaries, allowing you to set their stats when out of combat to any stat combo available, so you don’t need to transmute stat changes for legendaries. Legendary gear will remain with the same tier of stats as ascended gear and will not be made more powerful than other gear, it will simply be slightly more convenient since it will no longer need transmutations to change stats.

Without such a feature, crafting a Legendary after Ascended weapons hit would give them Ascended stats, but perhaps not the right stats. With exotic level gear and exotic Legendary stats this is/was a trivial issue, the costs of transmuting to another exotic for the stats weapon is miniscule compared to crafting the actual Legendary. What Anet seems to be saying with the above statement is that while Legendary weapons may cost an arm and a leg to make, making ascended weapons may wind up costing another limb.

ascended weapons will probably cost some serious time gating refining with mediocre to rare mats.
a full legendary gear however, will not cost an arm or a leg.. it will only cost a kidney. =D

I dont think it’ll be too bad. 250 laurels + ectos + gold perhaps. Anet has to find some way to punish people that spent currency previously (such as laurels). They always do that. Or its going to be 1000 representation tickets/buttons or something. You didnt throw away/sell yours did you?

50 Karka samples.

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What about: Get ascended items by playing all aspects of the game? You know, doing events, hearts, map exploration?..

Oh wait, that is not going to happen. OK, back to grind (or wait like an idiot to get lucky and get the right drop -_-).

i think that ascended weapon and gear should be affordable in a different ways, you should buy with laurels, with badge of honor, with spvp glory, with fractal relics, and with craft so ppl that enjoy entire game will have a right reward without farming some contents.. shouldn’t be so hard reach ascended for ppl who played the game for 1 year.. otherwise this game will become a farming one like others… let that legendary stuff for ppl that doesent have a life and like faming like others mmo, but dont do that with ascended

They better add ascended armor/weapons as a drop in FotM from MAW’s chest. Also, when will karma be used for something new they’re releasing? Its like this thing is in the game but have zero use.

The way I read that quote it doesn’t have anything to do with how hard (or easy) it will be to get ascended gear.

It sounds like they’re predicting some confusion over how changing the stats on a legendary will work and trying to emphasise that just like legendary weapons now they won’t have higher stats or unique stat combinations or in any way be better than ascended gear. You’ll just be able to change their stats to suit your build without having to transmute them.

Grounder.7381:

ascended weapons will probably cost some serious time gating refining with mediocre to rare mats.
a full legendary gear however, will not cost an arm or a leg.. it will only cost a kidney. =D

Huh… I dumped my liver into the MF and got my legendary immediately. Occasionally I experience blood poisoning and internal bleeding, but I’d say it was worth it. /dies.

Legendaries will be upgraded to ascended equivalent stat numbers but will be configurable to the way you want that weapon aka zerker, soldier, knight etc. So basically if say an ascended zerker weapon had power of 140, the legendary would have power of 140 also if you set it up as a zerker weapon where as an exotics zerker weapon might have something like 120 power. And I see ascended weapons being a HUGE timesink. Maybe not as bad as a legendary but prolly pretty close since they will be a top tier weapon just below legendaries in the fact that legendaries will be configurable on the fly without having to transmute them. Plus come on people, this is Grindwars 2, you know they need to add more farming content to keep people busy

Can guarantee laurel cost will be between 5 and 10 for ascended weapons/armor. Keep in mind, there will be a ridiculous amount of other hoops to jump through as well…hoops which many will find tedious.

The ascended gear is given one part at a time, random stat and piece as anniversary gift to your character and soulbound.
That would be fun to see how people will react to that.

A side question based on the OP (with some tinfoil added): If legendary weapons are going to have stats that can be changed to any combo outside of combat, does that hint at the possibility that they will be made account bound on use?

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