Guild Wars 2

Does transmuting a legendary does the resultant weapon still fail to display the graphics and effects properly?

I’m 250 badges away from my legendary and a guildie told me about this glitch when transmuting other stats onto a legendary. Just wondering if it was ever fixed in any patch, i don’t want to screw up my month or so of work.

Transmuting a legendary never affected graphics and effects to my knowledge—it just loses it’s legendary status and therefore won’t be buffed automatically to ascended stats when ascended weapons are released. They attempted to fix it this patch (Jan 28), and although the transmuted weapons no contain the ‘legendary’ rarity (aka purple name), linking it in chat shows it as exotic which concerns some people.

Bottom-line, if you just want the graphics/animations, sure, go transmute it. But if you want to easily attin the BiS gear everytime Anet decides to whip out a new tier, legendary will always be on top and be buffed to the highest stats available.

as far as i know it only loses its legendary tag ( purple name)
but its a bug and a fix should be coming