Guild Wars 2

What is going to happen to “Exotic” level legendary precursors once the new line of ascended gear comes out?

Are they all going to be upgraded to ascended?

Are you going to scrap the old precursors and bring in a line of new Ascended precursors?

Are precursors going to stay at exotic rarity and still be used to craft legendaries?

Legendaries will be ascended for sure when ascended weapons are out since they clearly said that Legendaries will always be top gear… as far as precursors, my guess is that they will remain very very very ridiculously random to get exotics.

Quite sure legendaries won’t be changed. Also, precursors will be craftables soon this year, so there maybe the whole, “Im going to equip an ascended till I get my legendary” principle pulled into play. Having said that, this also is dependant on how ascended gear will actually be in terms of visuals and sound effects. I imagine some ascended gear cosmeticwise may surpass legendaries.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Quite sure legendaries won’t be changed. Also, precursors will be craftables soon this year, so there maybe the whole, “Im going to equip an ascended till I get my legendary” principle pulled into play. Having said that, this also is dependant on how ascended gear will actually be in terms of visuals and sound effects. I imagine some ascended gear cosmeticwise may surpass legendaries.

Legendaries will be changed stat-wise and quality wise to match Ascended weapons so they remain the top choice. They will also gain the ability the switch into any stat combinations out of combat, this will be a feature that Ascended weapons do not have.

To OP: precursors are most likely to stay as Exotic. They are keeping the RNG method of getting precursors and I don’t think they would allow you to throw 4x Exotics in to get a chance at an Ascended. Ascended will be crafted (and time gated by T7 mats).

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I imagine some ascended gear cosmeticwise may surpass legendaries.

I’m feeling bad for the minstrel already

Bismuth.3165:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I imagine some ascended gear cosmeticwise may surpass legendaries.

I’m feeling bad for the minstrel already

Well I mean, appearances are completely subjective to opinion. I for example, love my destroyer weapons, even though Noone else really does.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I imagine some ascended gear cosmeticwise may surpass legendaries.

I don’t think that will be particularly hard to do.

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Bismuth.3165:

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

I imagine some ascended gear cosmeticwise may surpass legendaries.

I’m feeling bad for the minstrel already

Well I mean, appearances are completely subjective to opinion. I for example, love my destroyer weapons, even though Noone else really does.

The minstrel is a chicken… a kittening chicken, I can see the minstrel as a 200g focus but not a legendary, never a legendary…. I even checked it’s effects before posting this, the only effect it has a really hard to hear hum sound when you equip it and also checked the wiki, it occasionally gets really small and unnoticeable effects

Well you also gotta remember, legendaries are gonna be able to have their stats changed on the fly as long as you are outta combat. So that will eliminate the need for multiple forms of a weapon since you can just switch the stats on your legendary to match the build you are using or what you need for a certain run.