Guild Wars 2

I’ve been hearing rumors going around my guild that they’ve been hearing that legendaries might get something called “ascended stats” or something (I’m still new to 80, forgive me) in the near future. If they’re getting better stats, will the new exotic weapons receive equal stats to a legendary? I know that currently legendaries are really just a novelty-showoff type of item. But will that be changing? If so, then why? I for one don’t want to spend my experience in GW2 farming for months on end to get one item so that I can be “elite” as some would call it. I think that the way it is currently is perfectly fine.

Can anyone confirm this with maybe some proof of an arenanet dev saying this? Thanks in advance.

Since they will be introducing ascended weapons eventually, once that happens they will upgrade legendary weapons to have ascended stats since legendary weapons will always be “best in slot”. So once that happens, exotic weapons will be like rares are now, second best. Sorry I don’t have the direct link to this info off the top.

Legendaries will always be equal to the highest level of weapons in the game. Right now that is exotic level. When/if they introduce ascended weapons then the Legendaries will be bumped up to that level.

They’ve said legendaries will always be equal to “best in slot” if/when higher tiers of weapons are added. So they will upgrade their stats accordingly to always be worth using.

Unless they’ve backed off on it, it’s basically certain that we’ll get ascended weapons at some point. When those are added, legendaries will have their stats raised to be the same as ascended weapons.

And if there’s some level cap increase/expansion/new tier of gear or whatever and there’s ever better weapons than that that come out, legendaries will be raised to be equal to those too.

It was quite a while ago so I don’t have anything to link you verifying all this, but they did say this all very clearly.

They’ll never be BETTER than what else is available, but whatever is best at the time, they’ll be equal to that.

hope that clears things up.

Actually if you read this you’ll see the original quote(I included it anyway but the link is for the source):

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

it says there will be ascended weapons, eventually.

“You’ll also see more Legendary items in the future and an update to our existing Legendary weapons. Legendary items were always intended to be on par with other “best-in-slot” items. So fear not, all existing Legendary weapons, which are currently on par with Exotics, will be upgraded to be on par with Ascended weapons at the same time that we add Ascended weapons to the game. Thus Legendaries will remain “best-in-slot” items. All Legendary items going forward will be of Ascended power. We also have plans to add more fun ways to acquire Legendary precursor items with a more “scavenger hunt” feel than they are acquired currently. "

Infernia.9847:

Actually if you read this you’ll see the original quote(I included it anyway but the link is for the source):

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

it says there will be ascended weapons, eventually.

“You’ll also see more Legendary items in the future and an update to our existing Legendary weapons. Legendary items were always intended to be on par with other “best-in-slot” items. So fear not, all existing Legendary weapons, which are currently on par with Exotics, will be upgraded to be on par with Ascended weapons at the same time that we add Ascended weapons to the game. Thus Legendaries will remain “best-in-slot” items. All Legendary items going forward will be of Ascended power. We also have plans to add more fun ways to acquire Legendary precursor items with a more “scavenger hunt” feel than they are acquired currently. "

That’s the one.

In fact, they even goofed up soon after that and upgraded legendary weapons to ascended stats for about a day or so….obviously before adding ascended weapons (It was months ago, and we don’t even have them now). You could see that the weapons had a few more stats and an extra 40 damage or whatever it was, what you’d expect an ascended weapon stats to be.

They reverted it after they noticed they goofed and gave legendary weapons ascended stats too early, but it did confirm the intention.

It’s a legendary – I don’t see why it isn’t always a step above the current highest tier.

ascended then legendaries. so 2 tiers from exotic.