Guild Wars 2

Is there going to be legendary armor option for people who do not enjoy raiding?

Legendary armor is a reward for completing the most difficult content in the game. They may be able to do something with PvP and make a PvP legendary armor but outside of that there is no other content currently hard enough to give legendary armor.

Additionally they canceled all legendary projects in order to focus on the LS. It will be at least a year before we see any additional legendary items, and the ones people already paid for will be first if we get any more.

Anet took a huge gamble on how popular raids would be. To hedge their bet they gated legendary armor behind them. Don’t know if even that is enough to get people to raid.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Legendary armor is a reward for completing the most difficult content in the game.

That comment may hold true if there wasn’t like 5/8 man teams clearing content designed for 10 man teams, so the content cannot be that “hard” its just maybe more challenging but its not hard, infact the hardest part is trying to find a non elitist group of pugs whom think they are better than everyone else.

Ok I Did It.2854:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Legendary armor is a reward for completing the most difficult content in the game.

That comment may hold true if there wasn’t like 5/8 man teams clearing content designed for 10 man teams, so the content cannot be that “hard” its just maybe more challenging but its not hard, infact the hardest part is trying to find a non elitist group of pugs whom think they are better than everyone else.

If ppl are trying for weeks to kill VG and still were not able to kill it, it can’t be as easy as you think.

Ok I Did It.2854:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Legendary armor is a reward for completing the most difficult content in the game.

That comment may hold true if there wasn’t like 5/8 man teams clearing content designed for 10 man teams, so the content cannot be that “hard” its just maybe more challenging but its not hard, infact the hardest part is trying to find a non elitist group of pugs whom think they are better than everyone else.

While i’m sure you are one of those 5 man teams clearing the raids, I doubt that is very common. Most groups struggle to do it with 10 people, and a lot of people I know are still working on wing 1. I would say the vast majority of the player base finds raids hard.

The fact is, raids are an order of magnitude harder than anything else offered in this game, including PvP. Even with PvP you just have to log in at the right time of day to be uber leet and get to legendary. The only thing harder is PvP competitions, which are few and far between and cater to even less people than raids. (yet get a significantly larger portion of Anet’s time and money)

Ok I Did It.2854:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Legendary armor is a reward for completing the most difficult content in the game.

That comment may hold true if there wasn’t like 5/8 man teams clearing content designed for 10 man teams, so the content cannot be that “hard” its just maybe more challenging but its not hard, infact the hardest part is trying to find a non elitist group of pugs whom think they are better than everyone else.

He said it’s most difficult content which does not equal to hard. Raids are the hardest PvE challanges this game has to offer.

At this time, there are no plans for alternatives. In the future however, it will likely be available somewhere else, but don’t count on seeing it for several years at the earliest, as it will certainly be reserved for an expansion.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Even with PvP you just have to log in at the right time of day to be uber leet and get to legendary.

Same can be said for all group play. There will be bad players with legendary armor.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Legendary armor is a reward for completing the most difficult content in the game. They may be able to do something with PvP and make a PvP legendary armor but outside of that there is no other content currently hard enough to give legendary armor.

Additionally they canceled all legendary projects in order to focus on the LS. It will be at least a year before we see any additional legendary items, and the ones people already paid for will be first if we get any more.

Have you ever tried to make a successful wvw guild and do their common tasks? I guess not. And to add more to that, level of dedication and time spent for regular veteran wvw player is a lot higher than any of pve raiders can even reach. I know lots of examples about wvwers being in wvw 24h+ in row, commanding or fighting just because your server needs it, but I never heard about anyone spending 24h+ in raid.