Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to transmute legendary weapons? If so, now that the item will “retain the higher of the two rarities”, if I were to get a legendary, and then transmute it to have different stats, such as Power, Precision, Crit Damage, would the stats increase to match Ascended Weapons whenever they are released, or would I have to get an Ascended Weapon and transmute it again?

Bumping to support this thread.

An official answer to this would be greatly appreciated. I love my bifrost… And I’d love it even more if I knew I could xmute the stats