Guild Wars 2

I know Anet did say that when ascended weapon gets introduced, the legendary stats will automatically scale to it, but I was wondering, if we transmute our legendary to other exotic stats now, when the patch for new weapon arises, would the transmuted legendary still get stat boost for it?

How are we supposed to know?

I’d rather Exotic Zerker over Ascended Soldier anyway.

Transmuted legendaries will most likely not get automatically upgraded, since not everyone would want it. They could offer a 1 time trade in to revert your legendary back to its original form however.

If legendaries were magically upgraded items on transmute, which will probably not happen since it would override transmutation rules, that would mean you could no longer control the exact stats of the item and it would always be required level 80. They probably also wouldn’t want you to be able to get the exact stats you wanted simply by transmuting a white/blue/green/etc item. If they did, legendaries would have had dynamic stats to begin with.

Healix.5819:

Transmuted legendaries will most likely not get automatically upgraded, since not everyone would want it..

So you’re saying people wouldn’t want a completely free statistical upgrade?

Right.

On further thought, it’s unlikely they will be upgraded as transmuted Twi/Sunr no longer count for Eternity, making them totally “different” items. Not to mention Legendaries on lower level characters that are transmuted to non-80 stats, how would they go about that?

If you look at the triforge amulet it got updated from exotic to ascended through a mystic forge recipe. So right now id guess you will just have a recipe to upgrade it to ascended.

I do not think any legendary whatsoever will be automaticly updated. It will more than likely be a mystic forge recipe involving the legendary of any stat set and 3 things that determine the new stats (or 1 of them and 2 fillers, doesnt really matter), creating a new ascended legendary with those stats.

At least that’s how I hope Anet does it as its the only thing that would be fair to players and make sense.

They will get automatically upgraded. In fact they already did on accident when they first introduced ascended items.

As for the original posters question It is an interesting question, but we just don’t know. If I had to guess i’d say probably not. Transmuting legendary weapons has a long history of problems and glitches.

Your examples mean nothing. Those upgrades were straight from items that didn’t get transmutated.

Transmutating a legendary and then expecting it to be changed later is a complicated programming problem.