Guild Wars 2

I recently acquired my legendary and would like to know what happens exactly from a dev if I transmute it for the stats of my old bow.

Why can’t we keep the legendary as a legendary and transmute in other stats? If we do transmute the weapon and when the ascended weapons are released, will be get the legendary buffed or are we stuck? I can live with the stats as is and change up my accessories to regain what I lost, but a clear answer from a dev would be greatly appreciated.

If this has been answered by a dev in the past, I apologize ahead of time. Thank you.

The legendary becomes whatever you transmute it to, the Devs have said at a later date a patch will be put in so legendaries stay legendary even after you transmute them whether this effects prior xmutes who knows they didn’t say.

Based on the timeframe of how fast they work your looking at 1-2 months before you see this patch.

Yes, I understand this and thanks for the reply. I knew this already, but what I do not know is if a dev ever said that if you transmute it now, you cannot get upgraded or revert it back to legendary when the time comes. I just fail to see why we cannot keep the weapon legendary and change out the stats. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry can reply to this, but unless it comes from a dev, I will simply leave mine alone until it is clear. Thanks

def leave it alone man, if you transmutate it now, it will likely become an exotic, depends on the other item obviously. to ‘revert’ back would entail upgrading the item a tier to legendary. not likely to ever happen.

I wonder if Anet just does not want to answer this question, because if they flat out say no, it will not be upgraded, then a lot of people are going to be highly kitten off if they did transmute already. I simply want a clear answer one way or the other from a dev, so I can move along. I am really fine one way or the other, just need to know my options. Thanks for the reply

Sorry but I have to borrow this topic and ask another question about legendaries that is similar.
If you change sigil in them, will they lose their effects? I think I heard someone mention that.

You can put a different sigil in the weapon after it is crafted, I changed mine and no apparent changes seen.

Would still love a clear answer from Anet regarding the transmuting of legendaries and if it will cause them to not get upgraded in the future.

Still no word, or did I miss something?