Guild Wars 2

Regarding the remaining legendary weapons I’m assuming will drop in living world season 4, will it be likely that they require HoT map completion (ie, gift of maguuma) or PoF map completion (gift of… Elona?), or both, or maybe either (if they make previous 2nd gen legendaries have interchangable map exploration gifts – although that could lead to preference in map completion with either HoT being easier or more difficult that PoF?)

I’m just curious whether it will still be the case that alts are required to make more than one 2nd gen legendary, or whether for some, more than one might be attainable through a single character.

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

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

Mo

Given what MO said, they won’t require doing anything in the next expansion’s maps or anything else that requires having the next expansion. If they make them so they can be earned either in HoT and or PoF I guess remains to be seen as things could be interpreted in different ways I suppose. Based on what he said at that time they will only require HoT.

Thanks, I hope that doesn’t mean they’ll all require gift of maguuma only.

It’s the map exploration of VB/AB/TD/DS that I’m curious about, because essentially it means all remaining 2nd gen legendaries would still be tied to owning HoT with the requirement of making an alt to map complete for each. Would be nice for the sake of variety to have future ones have a different set of map completion/content requirement.

What I worry about is, at the pace of them releasing new legend, Elona legendary may not even be out by the time PoF lands, making the whole exploration unrewarding.

It seems fairly clear that if they’re adding legendaries with PoF, weapons are not it.

Maybe we’ll get a set of legendary trinkets for PoF instead.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

It seems fairly clear that if they’re adding legendaries with PoF, weapons are not it.

Maybe we’ll get a set of legendary trinkets for PoF instead.

This.

They supposedly have the entire legendary trinkets maped out and it’s a safe bet those will be added with PoF and require PoF exploration.

I do think the gen 2 legendary weapons should remain HoT specific since that’s what they original were advertised for.

They did say specifically that Gen 2 weapons would be released with PoF/LS4 but would continue to use the same system as e.g. The Shining Blade.

I suppose it’s understandable given the legendary weapons were advertised with HoT so they should all require HoT.

Thanks for the replies, has helped clear some things up for me.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

They did say specifically that Gen 2 weapons would be released with PoF/LS4 but would continue to use the same system as e.g. The Shining Blade.

But those still require gift of maguuma mastery. What I’m expecting is alt recipes for Elona to produce a substitute gift, since that would immediately solve the Map Mastery element moving forward. It would also help to rename Gift of Mastery to “Gift of Tyrian Mastery”.

Probably going to be Gift of the Vabbi or whatever. And hopefully the map completion items will be like HoT’s, per zone instead of per character to finish the whole thing.
…I never did finish HoT zones on my main. Oops.

starlinvf.1358:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

They did say specifically that Gen 2 weapons would be released with PoF/LS4 but would continue to use the same system as e.g. The Shining Blade.

But those still require gift of maguuma mastery. What I’m expecting is alt recipes for Elona to produce a substitute gift, since that would immediately solve the Map Mastery element moving forward. It would also help to rename Gift of Mastery to “Gift of Tyrian Mastery”.

Ah, I see.

I am not holding my breath. I’m expecting that they’ll keep it the same because this gives a reason for PoF owners to return to HoT maps.

However, there’s enough ambiguity in ANet’s quotes on the topic to allow for an updated Gift option, so you might well be correct. (Fortunately, we’ll find out soon.)

Possibly left the same to keep HOT relevant. Newer trinkets may use some new thing tied to POF. But more than likely vendors will all sell gifts of whatever needed to make shards in both HOT and POF. but nothing has been confirmed.

According to Mike O’Brien’s statement, no Legendary Weapons will be released with Path of Fire. Legendary Weapons will, however, be released with Living Story Season 4. They won’t require Path of Fire.

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

Mo

Thus, it looks like the requirements would not change.

They consider the whole 2nd gen set to be HoT based (because it’s been advertised as part of HoT), so i don’t expect the gift requirements to change. Not until they finish that set at least. They did mention also that while the remaining weapons will be released alongside ls4 (ls5?) and the new expac, they won’t be tied to PoF (well, except maybe in narrative way, similarily to how last 3 legendaries were thematically tied to LS3).

They should find a solution for gift of maguuma. If they all need that gift you would need 16 character slots to be able to build all those legendaries. Sure you could delete characters, but getting them to lvl 80, doing the map completion and then deleting it seems like such a waste.