Guild Wars 2

I loved my Stormbow from GW1. I, as I am sure many, hoped it would be brought over to GW2 via the HoM in some way, and it partially has been with the Ithas Longbow skin.

I posted a thread on this about 3 months ago. With the news of HoT and Legendary Crafting, I re-thought the process to include some of the new steps introduced in the idea of Legendary Crafting. So, I have revised my thoughts with those ideas. Perhaps this can spark(pun absolutely intended) and/or rekindle internal discussion on how we might be able to do this. Perhaps a process with new special items.

It appears to me, we have all the necessary elements in place to do this.

1. Ithas Longbow Skin
2.Chaos affect (from Chaos Weapons skin)
3. Lightning Effect (from Lightning Hammer/Mjolnir)

Let me explain the process I imagine now:

1. Acquire a Longbow of your choice. Requires Exotic level stats of your choice.(May also be Ascended level.)

2. Apply the Ithas Longbow skin from the HoM Rewards. (This makes it Account Bound)
– At this point you have a Normal Exotic(or Ascended) weapon with the HoM Skin. If you’re happy, you’re DONE!!! But, I want more…:)

3. Acquire 3 new crafting “Pieces/Parts/Ingredients” via collections requiring you to visit exotic/extreme locales throughout Tyria, complete JPs, defeat Legendary Champs, etc. Same method that will be used in the Legendary Crafting.

3a. Acquire the ‘Essence of Chaos’(Account Bound on Acquire) – Used in the Mystic Forge to create the “Legendary Stormbow”. This essence imbues an Exotic(or Ascended) Ithas Longbow with the white glow of a Chaos weapon.

3b. Acquire ‘Essence of Lightning’(Account Bound on Acquire) – Used in the Mystic Forge to create the “Legendary Stormbow”. This essence imbues an Exotic(or Ascended) Ithas Longbow with the “Lightning” effect from the Lightning Hammer.

3c. Acquire ‘Essence of Legend’(Account Bound on Acquire) – Used in the Mystic Forge to create the “Legendary Stormbow”. This essence imbues an Exotic(or Ascended) Ithas Longbow with a ‘Legendary Spirit’ elevating it to a Legendary(or Ascended Legendary) Weapon with appropriate level Stats and Stat Selectability.

The Legendary Stormbow can only be made when all 3 Essences and an Exotic(or Ascended) Ithas Bow are put into the Mystic Forge at the same time. No precursor. Its a one-shot deal. You must have the Legendary Crafting Mastery to do this. This item remains Account Bound upon creation. This also unlocks the ‘Legendary Stormbow’ skin in the players wardrobe.

At this point in my re-thinking, I killed the idea in my mind of making these Dungeon rewards or anything like that. Drop them into the Mastery and the Collections to be part of Legendary Crafting.

Its still not a “freebie”, but requiring a bit of work…and now with the ability of the Mastery, it would be on the scale of a Legendary. You could start out with an Ascended version or you could make it ascended with the Mystic Forge and Mist essences and such like making an item ascended now. This makes a “Special Legendary” for those who did the HoM in GW1.

Unfotunately, this is not available to everyone. If you asked people who have only played GW2 what a Stormbow is…they probably couldn’t tell you. This is for the long-time players or those who have gone back to GW1 and done the HoM achievements to unlock the very first basic thing you need…the Ithas Longbow Skin.

Sorry. I’m not being mean about it. I just really loved my Stormbow.

Many will still say there are more important things to be done. I hope with the new work on Expansion that this would be pretty quick to implement.

And did I mention that I really loved my Stormbow? My original Ranger from GW1 still carries it.

Again, its just a Revised Suggestion.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storm_Bow

Not everyone has the Ithas Longbow, so i highly doubt despite how neat this idea is that it will never be implemented. It would be just as if ANET had required you to have the Firey Dragon Sword to make Jormags breath. They wont do it, youd be better off suggesting to add in more GW1 weapons(Which would be awesome!).

Do you have a screenshot of it?

That is a valid point, I agree. I just couldn’t come up with a way to do it that didn’t include the Ithas Longbow skin. At least not a way that didn’t take away the “exclusivity” of that skin. Its a tough call, that I grant you.

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

That is a valid point, I agree. I just couldn’t come up with a way to do it that didn’t include the Ithas Longbow skin. At least not a way that didn’t take away the “exclusivity” of that skin. Its a tough call, that I grant you.

Make it part of high level fractals, or better yet put it in one of the harder dungeon paths as a random drop from the final chest. It would give players a reason to go do that path!
edit: I had one too, i loved it! of course mine was bad…but the skin was awesome, my Ele carries it

Do you have a screenshot of it?

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storm_Bow

Dante.1763:

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

That is a valid point, I agree. I just couldn’t come up with a way to do it that didn’t include the Ithas Longbow skin. At least not a way that didn’t take away the “exclusivity” of that skin. Its a tough call, that I grant you.

Make it part of high level fractals, or better yet put it in one of the harder dungeon paths as a random drop from the final chest. It would give players a reason to go do that path!

Tigaseye.2047:

Do you have a screenshot of it?

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storm_Bow

Yeah…but I hate relying on RNG for drops. With my luck, it can be raining soup, and I would walk outside and get hit in the mouth with a bale of hay. I’d never get the darn thing…lol

Thanks for adding the link. I’m gonna steal it and add it to the OP.

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

Yeah…but I hate relying on RNG for drops. With my luck, it can be raining soup, and I would walk outside and get hit in the mouth with a bale of hay. I’d never get the darn thing…lol

Thanks for adding the link. I’m gonna steal it and add it to the OP.

Im the same way! But id rather try to farm for it or farm the gold to buy it outright, the thing is just so cool! Course it could always be added as a skin that you unlock for doing something in game(Similar to the Bandana skin from the Iron Marches) what? i have no idea. But it would be cool to have more skins unlocked for doing stuff like that!

And go ahead stormbow is just one of the many weapons i had hoped would carry over to GW2 in someway..

Dante.1763:

And go ahead stormbow is just one of the many weapons i had hoped would carry over to GW2 in someway..

Same here…I’d like to see many more…but I think this one could be one of the easiest since, as I pointed out, we have all the parts…just needs put together.

I can’t let it fall…5 days and already on page 11. I’d really love to hear from a Dev or Gaile on this… just to see if its even remotely considerable to be a possibility of a slight chance that it might be thought about over coffee and waffles at Flap Jack’s Wafflehouse? Maybe?

Dante.1763:

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

That is a valid point, I agree. I just couldn’t come up with a way to do it that didn’t include the Ithas Longbow skin. At least not a way that didn’t take away the “exclusivity” of that skin. Its a tough call, that I grant you.

Make it part of high level fractals, or better yet put it in one of the harder dungeon paths as a random drop from the final chest. It would give players a reason to go do that path!
edit: I had one too, i loved it! of course mine was bad…but the skin was awesome, my Ele carries it

Do you have a screenshot of it?

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Storm_Bow

Thanks for the link.

Sorry, forgot to check back earlier.