Guild Wars 2

I want a legendary but it’s just not in the Meta , anyone feels the same?

I want your opinions especially those who are also in this situation

What do you mean?

Well I want a legendary for my character but most ppl rely on metabattle for the “meta” of that class and unfortunately the leg i want is not in the meta.

edit: and when you’re not in the meta you can’t do really much. (fracs/dgs/RAIDS)

Uh what ?

Since when was meta a requisite for legendary ?

Most people do that? I think you’d be surprised what you can do using your own nous.

^ well it’s like do you want to run a raid with someone in your party a staff Guardian / rifle Warrior and bunch of not meta weapons+class … especially in Raids you really need that DPS.

I dont want to invest on a long term goal that would just be wasted
edit: just a casual player

Doesn’t every weapon have a Legendary version; some more than one? Why can’t a Legendary weapon be used for this ‘meta’ you wish to run?

Who cares? If you’re going with that crowd then follow their rules and deal with it. Plus everyone knows those examples are more on the lackluster side for hardercore stuff so why would you even consider it. Except for giggles of course.

If you want a legendary then make or buy one for yourself.

How much of your playtime is raiding? If it’s close to 100% then it’s probably not worth making the Legendary. If you play Guild Wars 2 more than just doing raids, use it then and use meta weapons during the raid.

Dvantaman.3617:

^ well it’s like do you want to run a raid with someone in your party a staff Guardian / rifle Warrior and bunch of not meta weapons+class … especially in Raids you really need that DPS.

I dont want to invest on a long term goal that would just be wasted
edit: just a casual player

“Just a casual player” shouldn’t give a flying quaggan about raids/meta etc…

Also just putting this out there; if you have time to build a legendary weapon, you can just as easily make an ascended weapon that does fit whatever build your “meta” needs.

Thanks for your replies. I’ve been enlightened on what to do now.

TexZero.7910:

Dvantaman.3617:

^ well it’s like do you want to run a raid with someone in your party a staff Guardian / rifle Warrior and bunch of not meta weapons+class … especially in Raids you really need that DPS.

I dont want to invest on a long term goal that would just be wasted
edit: just a casual player

“Just a casual player” shouldn’t give a flying quaggan about raids/meta etc…

Also just putting this out there; if you have time to build a legendary weapon, you can just as easily make an ascended weapon that does fit whatever build your “meta” needs.

Yeah im just a casual player nowadays but im pretty fully geared now(full asc) so im looking forward for the raids too.
Btw thanks for the reply.

I hope you don’t think we’ve been belittling your problem. Running your own race is the best way to win. Join in when you have (or want) to.

For future reference a good approach to avoid confusion when creating forum posts is to assume the people reading it know all the items, game modes etc. but have never encountered the situation you’re posting about, so you need to write the problem out in full and explain why it’s a problem for you.

In this case for example you wouldn’t need to explain what a legendary is but it would have been helpful to explain that there is one specific legendary you want to make because you like it, but it’s not the same type of weapon as your profession is ‘supposed to’ use for raids. (A lot of people will decide they want a legendary but aren’t worried about which one it is, so they’ll just make whichever they use most.)

Also you might be surprised by how many people don’t use Metabattle, or even meta builds. I’ve only heard it mentioned occasionally on the forum, never in-game. The vast majority of content (including dungeons and at least low level fractals) is easy enough that you can do it with pretty much any builds, so many people just don’t worry about it. I’m not sure about raids because I’ve not started doing them, but I know there are ‘casual’ raid groups who don’t insist on full ascended so I assume there are people who are less strict on builds too.

As for your problem I think Just A Flesh Wound is right. You could make the legendary you want and use it everywhere except raids, and then make an ascended weapon of whatever type you need to use within them. It’s quite common for players to carry one or more extra weapons in addition to the ones they have equipped.

Danikat.8537:

Also you might be surprised by how many people don’t use Metabattle, or even meta builds.

This.

I don’t even know what is and what isn’t meta. I just click my own builds together. Creating well-functioning builds, for my own purposes, not someone else’s, is a big part of the fun for me.

Manasa Devi.7958:

Danikat.8537:

Also you might be surprised by how many people don’t use Metabattle, or even meta builds.

This.

I don’t even know what is and what isn’t meta. I just click my own builds together. Creating well-functioning builds, for my own purposes, not someone else’s, is a big part of the fun for me.

Yep, I play whats fun and works for me, learning to get the best out of what I choose.
I have no interest in another players arbitrarily assigned “must use this build or else”.
OP if you like and want hat legendary, absolutely nothing else matters, you go for it.

I made The Juggernaut and Sunrise last year. I use Sunrise always on my Guardian but transferred Juggy to my Scrapper cause Guardian Hammer sucks so I can use it better on engie. So you can make legendary and use it on any class.

Manasa Devi.7958:

Danikat.8537:

Also you might be surprised by how many people don’t use Metabattle, or even meta builds.

This.

I don’t even know what is and what isn’t meta. I just click my own builds together. Creating well-functioning builds, for my own purposes, not someone else’s, is a big part of the fun for me.

Agreed. I don’t know how many meta builds I have defeated in pvp while using a non-meta build. In other words, the meta isn’t everything.

Dvantaman.3617:

I want a legendary but it’s just not in the Meta , anyone feels the same?

I want your opinions especially those who are also in this situation

No, because I play my way and to kitten with anyone who has a problem with that.

~EW

Dvantaman.3617:

Well I want a legendary for my character but most ppl rely on metabattle for the “meta” of that class and unfortunately the leg i want is not in the meta.

edit: and when you’re not in the meta you can’t do really much. (fracs/dgs/RAIDS)

I hate to tell you this but metabattle only impacts you if you let it. Its propaganda. Or if you want to think about it a different way, what you are doing now, might be or become meta later. So its up to you to stand up for your own build.

Danikat.8537:

Also you might be surprised by how many people don’t use Metabattle, or even meta builds.

When I first started a few years back someone pushed the site at me. Took a look and laughed when I got back to them. Part of the fun of the game is finding builds that are effective for the player and the play style. Will some builds fail, yes but sometimes its the build, the player or a mix of them. Sometimes what a lot may consider a fail build may be a brilliant build when mixed with a certain play style.

@ OP Metabattle is meant to give the masses a baseline if they don’t want to try and figure it out for themselves, and even that is subjective. How many people were involved in saying a said build was meta in the first place, ponder that.

Kamohoali’i Kotaki is still my favourite legendary, and it literally can’t be part of a meta build. At least the precursor was cheap.

Dvantaman.3617:

I want a legendary but it’s just not in the Meta , anyone feels the same?

I want your opinions especially those who are also in this situation

I understand your concern that people will not want to party with you but I assure you that it is not something you need fear.

Remember that everything on metabattle was created by someone; you are just as important as they are, and your ideas are too, so being afraid of rejection does you no good. If someone is so concerned that you follow a build off of a website made by just another player then you are better off not playing with them.

Build your Quip.