Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer:
I do not own a legendary nor desire to aquire one in the near future, even tough I have the resources and everything crafted ready for it.

Topic:
So with Legendaries 2.0 promised to come 1+ year ago and still not being out, and seeing the same ones on tons of people, these items I think have lost a lot of appeal they might have had earlier on. Also, a lot of the normal weapons/gemstore stuff simply look a lot better.

Well, here is a small idea on what can be done about them, to make the invested time/effort more rewarding for players who want to “show off” a bit more (cause let’s face it, that’s all they are good for):

Suggestions:
1. Add selectable unique footfall effects for each Legendary
2. Add selectable unique colors/special effects to each Legendary
3. Add selectable unique soundeffects to each Legendary

Elaboration:
This could be done via the Collection achievment thing. For instance each Legendary could have 5 different visual effects, 5 different footfall effects and 2-3 different sound effects, which you ould select and apply to your weaqpon, if you own the specific types of effects. This would let people uniquely customize their weapons and not just be like, “oh, another eternity… gz i guess”. This could be done from the Hero panel either from under wardrobe or a new menu point.
Previously acquied Legendaries would of course unlock the Footfall/Visual/Soundeffect they already have.

Costs:
Of course eahc of the effects would be super pricey hard to get. Some could be tied to doing scavanger hunts (thikn Mawdrey), and some to putting in insane amount of gold (eg.: Dump 250 kitten, t3, t4, t5, t6 Bloods in Mystic toilet to get Blood footfall effect for your Thingamajig).

Example:
Charrlemagne the Fuzzybutted decides that he is bored of his Bolt. He decides to make Candy visual effect on it, for which he throws 84 billion Candy Corns and 3 asuras in the Mystic Forge. He applies Candy effect to his Bolt, and now it has a dripping Candy glaze effect on it. But that is not enough for our hero, he decides that he would like if his footfalls would be splattered quaggans, cause he is into that. So he throws 250 kitten Scales into the forge. He apllies Splattered Quaggan Footfall effect to his legendary and has dead quaggans in his wake now. He is satisfied with the audio effect however, and would not like to go for the “you-swinged” each time he swings Job-o-Tron effect.

Good Idea. I like it.

New sound effects and sound effects for some legendaries who does not possess them would be fine by me

Bubi.7942:

Also, a lot of the normal weapons/gemstore stuff simply look a lot better.

I agree with this. I have Twilight and Bolt (nothing else looks good in my opinion) for year and a half now. And for a while now I’m like, oh that other Greatsword or Sword looks very nice… But, wait, no. I can’t. I have a Legendary and that one is an ordinary/gem store item… I need to show off my Legendary items that everyone now has.

I remember back in the day when they used to buff up and make certain Legendaries ‘prettier’. No idea why they stopped doing this.
For the longest time Legendaries where the only reason to play this game at some point.

I really like this idea. Been thinking about the footfall part for a long time, would be so nice to be able to change it. The glow and sound effect option would make it even better!

I have a legendary and I could make a new one, but as you say the existing legendary weapons have been in game for ages now so I don’t really feel like “wasting” any more of my gold and resources on them as they are now. I rather wait for new ones even if they never seem to be implemented.

Would be awesome to be able to custom the one I have. And who knows, I might even get a second legendary from the existing ones if they could be customized.

Bubi.7942:

Example:
… He decides to make Candy visual effect on it, for which he throws 84 billion Candy Corns and 3 asuras in the Mystic Forge. He applies Candy effect to his Bolt.

xD

If I can throw player asuras into the mystic forge, this gets my vote.

…C’mere all you little rugrats…daddy wants to see what happens when you’re flushed down the hole…

Urosh Uchiha.9732:

Bubi.7942:

Also, a lot of the normal weapons/gemstore stuff simply look a lot better.

I agree with this. I have Twilight and Bolt (nothing else looks good in my opinion) for year and a half now. And for a while now I’m like, oh that other Greatsword or Sword looks very nice… But, wait, no. I can’t. I have a Legendary and that one is an ordinary/gem store item… I need to show off my Legendary items that everyone now has.

I remember back in the day when they used to buff up and make certain Legendaries ‘prettier’. No idea why they stopped doing this.
For the longest time Legendaries where the only reason to play this game at some point.

This is how I feel. And the resin I didn’t go for one. Some of the easy to obtain skins look so much better that the hard to get ones. I personally think the Krytan and AC great swords are two of the best looking ones in game. As for normal swords, it’s my HoM Firery Dragon sword. Has been since launch. There are only 4 skins in game left that I want. And 3 are NPC gem store items. The other is The Flameseeker Prophercies(which I’m doing on a when its done basis.) every time I see a Twilight or what have you I think that would be cool to have. But the. I know I’d just re-skin it in a day or so after getting it. As I did with all my acended gear.

Same, I’m using various in-game or gemstore skins, and won’t even bother making a legendary cause they are everywhere, and not even that good, especially some effects (can’t stand quip, ponybow or howler). I’m fine with Ambrite weps for my main, and various assortments for my alts.

Id have to think that if there are ever new legendaries it will be versions of new weapons. I would like some tweaks to existing ones, making incinerator/sunrise footstep effects nicer and more noticable. If they just introduced new legendaries for existing weapon types those precursor would drop to much in price

They did promise to make more legendaries more than a year ago didnt they.
None of them are in the game, and with the PAX briefing around the corner.
Expansion confirmed………

aspirine.6852:

They did promise to make more legendaries more than a year ago didnt they.
None of them are in the game, and with the PAX briefing around the corner.
Expansion confirmed………

They also said crafting precursors would happen, and lots of other stuff for whatever reason never happened. Im hoping for expansion to, but hopefully it avoids the same problems GW1 had after the Factions/Nightfall/EoTN were released. I can understand why they dont/waited so long not to go for an expansion, but they couldnt hold out forever. To much pressure from Ncsoft and the player base to do it, and all these rumors over most of last year talking about Anet working on some big project etc etc, and cant Imagine fighting a new elder dragon in a living story instance. So we’ll see what news comes out of that.

Well they did say they will tweak legendaries to always be special. That only happened once as far as I remember.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-September-3-2013

A lot of changes happened on that patch.
Pretty much nothing new happened since. And legendary weapons are now more common than some gem store items, or limited time only weapon skins. Which makes legendary weapons not so special anymore in my opinion.

And yeah they did say they will add new legendary weapons and there were some rumors saying that those v2 legendaries will require existing ones as precursors.

Legendary weapons were promised in 2012 for 2013….. I wouldn’t hold your breath.

i prefer weapon dyes with one use being sold in gemstore , a lot of ppl would buy that

Bubi.7942:

So with Legendaries 2.0 promised to come 1+ year ago and still not being out

If you don’t mind me white knighting a bit… ANet never promised, simply said they were looking into it.

Bubi.7942:

Suggestions:
1. Add selectable unique footfall effects for each Legendary
2. Add selectable unique colors/special effects to each Legendary
3. Add selectable unique soundeffects to each Legendary

Or they could add more legendaries, although I guess adding more and more legendaries isn’t particularly a scale-able solution (and would eventually take away from the legendary-ness).

I’d much rather they focused on new legendaries or addressing the precursor issue rather than adding rather menial improvements to current legendaries