Legendary Transmutation?

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Posted by: KyoHanakaze.8145

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I don’t know if this has been asked/answered before, and I apologize if it has; a quick search yielded no actual answers, so I decided to come here to see if I can get one.

So, here’s the deal: I want to make Bifrost for my elementalist. However, I run a full support heal build for my ele, which means that the soldier stats that accompany a legendary would be utterly useless towards my build. If I transmute Bifrost onto, say, a Cleric’s item, I know it will maintain legendary status but will the stats be upgraded to ascended once they’re released, as it would be for standard legendaries?

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Posted by: Hoyvin.3241

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I’d like to know this, too.

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Posted by: Vol.5241

Vol.5241

We have asked this question many times but unfortunately have not received a concrete reply.

That’s why I haven’t decided to transmute yet. Though I’m not a min/max player so it’s not exactly urgent.

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Posted by: Auesis.7301

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I transmuted my Incinerator to Berserker stats – it remains purple, but has “Transmuted” instead of “Legendary” on it. I assume if they weren’t completely braindead, they would have a system that bumps the prefix stats of a purple-grade weapon to Ascended status, regardless of whether it’s been transmuted around or not. At least, I hope.

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Posted by: JJBigs.8456

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I transmuted mine to zerker too

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

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In theory the stats shouldn’t be upgraded because when you transmute something what you’re doing is using elements of two items to create a new one. What you’ve got at the end isn’t really a legendary, it’s a unique (in a real world sense, not a game mechanic sense) exotic that looks like a legendary.

But so many people have transmuted their legendary without thinking twice about it and have already made it clear they’ll rage endlessly on here, in game, to support etc. that I suspect if they can Anet will make them upgrade just to avoid the whining.

Although I’m not sure if they can. I’m not an expert on these things but I suspect it depends on how the item database works. There may not be any way for them to tell which items have legendary skins attached, and so no way to make them upgrade along with actual legendries.

In short if having your legendary upgrade is more important than having the stats you want I wouldn’t risk it, but no one knows for sure.

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