Guild Wars 2

So I just got my first legendary, Nevermore, and was hoping I would have a way to pick the sigils I want on it so that when I moved it between my characters, it wouldn’t be adverse to the rest of their build. For example, I would want condi type sigils for my necro (malice & bursting) and then power ones for my tempest (force and might on swap)… and healing ones for my druid (transference & heal on hit).
Sadly, this is not the case and I gave in and went with a sigil of bursting and sigil of force (I had the force already) because it seemed the best way to encompass all my characters that would use it. I also just put my condi infusions on it and sighed in frustration.

This then got me thinking… what about legendary armour, once it comes out? Are we going to be getting it just for another skin—not like the effects will overlay with the legendary weapon? What is the point of having stat changing capabilities on any of these if we cannot also change the sigil or runes on them? They are just going to sit on one character for one build at that point… and we might as well have just made ascended versions for power/condi/WvW/support as appropriate, each with the desired runes because it would cost so much less.
<tinfoil hat>The thing I worry about is that ANET planned this for purposes of selling more of those extractors… </tinfoil hat>

I have heard a couple decent suggestions from guildies but wanted other ideas on how ANET could potentially fix this flaw in their design… at least I see it as a major flaw in having a stat-changing item.
1) Make the runes/sigils bound to the character instead of the item so things can be moved around and not constantly redone because the build is different. Unfortunately, this would be a massive change to how things are done so I passed it off as infeasible.
2) The legendary acts like princess and consumes the runes/sigils and you build up your selection ability that way (thus still having to pay for/obtain them the usual way… but only once).

Honestly… I just want to select them like we do in PvP…

We have been asking that for a long time. In the end, the idea that seem to be the most accepted would be to be able to add runes/sigils you own into your Legendary and after that point you can then swap between the sigils/runes that you added to your legendary.

Will we ever have that? I hope, but wouldn’t hold my breath.

Suggested a million times, and we all tend to agree. But it will probably never happen. We’ve been waiting for build templates since before GW2 beta and we still don’t have those either. Anet tends to be slow on the QoL changes.