Guild Wars 2

Jason King.2647:

There have been a number of issues with transmuted legendaries, so in the interest of making sure everyone is on the same page, here are the recent and current issues I’m aware of:

• —Fixed— The color of a transmuted legendary appears as exotic when linked in chat.
• —Fixed— Transmuted legendaries display their sigil suffix in chat.
• —Active— Legendary weapon precursors cannot be used to create their legendary weapon if they’ve been transmuted
• —Active— Transmuting a legendary prior to equipping it will not award the legendary achievement

The last two items are issues that we’re working on, but I don’t have an ETA on when we’ll have a fix. If there are other issues with transmuted legendaries that I missed, please update this thread.

Thank you!

We also wish to know if legendaries with their stats transmuted will be promoted to ascended quality stats when ascended weapons are introduced.

Edit: Didnt hit refresh to see the above before posting! But it really is an issue when deciding.

Good fixes so far ANet

Just one thing, which is putting me off transmuting, other than the retaining its status…

When/If the uplift comes for Legendary weapons to become a tier above the rest, how will this work with ones which have had their stats transmuted in order to be effective with different builds?

Will the item be bumped up to match what it now should be? Or will it simply retain the Exotic level stats I am considering transmuting now :S

I want to know this too, will the stats be adjusted to ascended when I transmute a legendary and an exotic now? Pretty simple question.

Iruwen.3164:

I want to know this too, will the stats be adjusted to ascended when I transmute a legendary and an exotic now? Pretty simple question.

Unknown, but I’m guessing not. The whole point of a Legendary is to force people to use a specific weapon graphic and the forced +stat combination of Power/Vitality/Toughness. From discussions with GW1 players, I’m understanding that their Best in Slot (Forever) items were limited to certain gear combinations. If you didn’t use this exact combination, then you were forced to actually participate in the new content.

With GW1 in mind, Legendary weapons aren’t supposed to be user friendly. It’s always been my impression that they are merely a status symbol that helps you avoid future itemization. Ascended was added to “encourage” people to run on the gear treadmill system since people in full Exotic were leaving the game because they no longer had gear progression options. ArenaNet wants people to chase Ascended, which will also include Ascended Weapons at some future point. Making the Legendary weapons flexible (in either the appearance or +stats departments) kind of defeats this purpose.

I could still get ascended gear and transmute it on the legendary though, so increasing the original stats but not the transmuted ones seems rather pointless.