Guild Wars 2

Hello! I have been trying to read all the announcements Anet makes about the new legendary weapons. And I found a huge contradiction (regarding the announcements) about the remaining legendary weapons which haven’t been released yet in HoT.

We still haven’t got these new Legendary Weapons in HoT: 1) a new Longbow, 2) a new Greatsword, 3) a new Scepter, 4) a new Focus and 5) a new Warhorn

Furthmore, Anet announced that the new expansion that is going to be released in a few months will have nothing to do with new legendary weapons.

So my question is: When will we get those remaining new Legendary Weapons?
Should we wait for the new expansion and grind them from the beginning (with new materials from the new expansion)? Will we get them..hmm…never? Or will they be released in Living World Season 4 after the expansion in many months-years from now?

I hope Anet could answer that because many people want to manage their in-game time (materials, money) to their best benefit and not make the mistake to grind an old legendary in total blindness when a new one will pop up suddenly in, for example, 1-2 month from now.

There are no contradictions and they have answered your question.

The remaining weapons will be released with future releases.

You do not need the next expansion to complete these.

What is the confusion?

Yargesh.4965:

There are no contradictions and they have answered your question.

The remaining weapons will be released with future releases.

You do not need the next expansion to complete these.

What is the confusion?

I would really apreciate if they could inform us if they are going to be released in a steady manner about 2-4 months (like always) or in the far future after 6 months++ from now in the “Living World Season 4” ( =after many months from the new expansion).

Well, they released two with this latest patch. If they skip releasing one with the expansion, and release the next one with the first Episode of Living World Season 4, it would not be any different than releasing one with each Release.

Thus, one might expect the next one to be released in about 4 to 7 months, at most.

I expect the next legendary will be 1st quarter next year when episode 1 of LWS4 comes out.

I think the bigger question raised will be the World Gift used in crafting them. Currently Gen 1 uses Gift of Exploration to produce Gift of Mastery. Gen 2 weapons currently use Gift of Maguuma Mastery, which requires all the Masteries unlocked for Heart of Thorns. Its very obvious this was the initial design intent to have it tied to the Expansions…. But if the next Expansion comes out, will the remaining legendary weapons from Gen 2 use Gift of Maguuma Mastery, or Gift of (Dessert?) Mastery from the new expansion?

Imagine you’re a new player joining in during this current expansion, do all its content without going through HOT first (because Elona is where all the fun is at the moment), see the new Legendary weapons in LS4, start work on one…. and then realize you completely mastering everything in PoF has zero contribution to the new Legendaries, because it requires Gift of Maguuma mastery.

This presents a very real problem moving forward, if the Legendary weapon generations aren’t directly coinciding with the expansions, but the gifts in their creation are. I also can’t see them using clone recipes to allow any Expansion mastery gift to qualify for any weapon, as that trivializes the process for existing players moving forward. They do need more incentive for players to get the expansion;, and Legendary weapon sets were a small, but significant part of that.

I believe the AMA said they would continue with LS4

starlinvf.1358:

I think the bigger question raised will be the World Gift used in crafting them. Currently Gen 1 uses Gift of Exploration to produce Gift of Mastery. Gen 2 weapons currently use Gift of Maguuma Mastery, which requires all the Masteries unlocked for Heart of Thorns. Its very obvious this was the initial design intent to have it tied to the Expansions…. But if the next Expansion comes out, will the remaining legendary weapons from Gen 2 use Gift of Maguuma Mastery, or Gift of (Dessert?) Mastery from the new expansion?

Imagine you’re a new player joining in during this current expansion, do all its content without going through HOT first (because Elona is where all the fun is at the moment), see the new Legendary weapons in LS4, start work on one…. and then realize you completely mastering everything in PoF has zero contribution to the new Legendaries, because it requires Gift of Maguuma mastery.

This presents a very real problem moving forward, if the Legendary weapon generations aren’t directly coinciding with the expansions, but the gifts in their creation are. I also can’t see them using clone recipes to allow any Expansion mastery gift to qualify for any weapon, as that trivializes the process for existing players moving forward. They do need more incentive for players to get the expansion;, and Legendary weapon sets were a small, but significant part of that.

I believe MO stated you won’t need the new expansion for the rest of the 2nd set of weapons.

That still leaves the question of how this is going to be addressed. Are they going to rely on Gift of Maguuma, or are they changing the crafting process again?

Our plan is to keep releasing legendary weapons alongside episodes, with the weapons not requiring the new expansion.
Mo

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/68vw84/flashpoint_devs_here_ask_us_anything/dh1px38/

starlinvf.1358:

That still leaves the question of how this is going to be addressed. Are they going to rely on Gift of Maguuma, or are they changing the crafting process again?

No, it’s pretty cut and dry… if it’s not going to require the new expansion, then obviously they are still a part of Gen 2 and as such will still have the same crafting process and requirements as the rest of Gen 2. It’s not a hard concept to understand. They said everything that you need to know.