Guild Wars 2

A level cap increase is coming at some point. It has been mentioned by the devs on more than 1 occasion. It will likely arrive with the expansion.

The devs have also stated that when ascended weapons come out that legendaries would have their stats changed to match those ascended weapons.

My question is, will the level of the legendaries increase as well? Or will they remain level 80? The reason I ask is because if they don’t, then I could easily see a level 85 exotic beating a level 80 ascended item. This is bad b/c it will make the legendaries that people spent so much time obtaining worthless. I already know that if you transmute a legendary it will lose its legendary status (turns to exotic). So if you were to transmute to a level 85 exotic then you would forgo any future automatic upgrades to the stats.

Of course, if they just raise the level of the items to 85 or whatever the new cap is that will create problems too since people won’t be able to use their weapons until they hit the new cap.

There are issues all around.

Just curious as to how the devs plan on addressing these issues.

You’re asking too far in the future. Might as well ask if they will release a 3rd expansion while you’re at it…

Anet said legendaries will always be best in slot

Anet also said they wouldn’t add gear treadmill.

What, you think there’s a chance people would complain if Legendaries were suddenly weaker than easily-obtained exotics?

Without any idea of what the future holds, this is essentially the last thing you’ll ever have to worry about.

Arekai.5698:

Anet also said they wouldn’t add gear treadmill.

There isn’t. Ascended and exotic gear differ maybe 5%. Hell, rare gear is completely fine to run dungeons etc with.

Well, it’s not really problem, is it? Get a max stat weapon of the same tape, use a fine transmutation stone, done. So while it’s not a big deal, if they always stayed BiS it would push their value quite a bit. Get a precursor now and profit later?

Sito.6352:

Arekai.5698:

Anet also said they wouldn’t add gear treadmill.

There isn’t. Ascended and exotic gear differ maybe 5%. Hell, rare gear is completely fine to run dungeons etc with.

No it isn’t.

And you give up traits, runes and sigil slots for a 5% increase.

I honestly hope there is no level increase… Vertical progression is the basis of a treadmill…

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Sito.6352:

Arekai.5698:

Anet also said they wouldn’t add gear treadmill.

There isn’t. Ascended and exotic gear differ maybe 5%. Hell, rare gear is completely fine to run dungeons etc with.

No it isn’t.

And you give up traits, runes and sigil slots for a 5% increase.

Wait what? How is rare not fine to run dungeons with?

What if they stay as a level 80 Legendary and if the expansion bumps the max level to say 85 and New Level 85 Legendaries are released?

I say with all the expansion 80 will be max level. Same as how GW1 was 20 max pretty much all the time.

tyke.5602:

What if they stay as a level 80 Legendary and if the expansion bumps the max level to say 85 and New Level 85 Legendaries are released?

They will not do that. They will always make legendaries the highest damage weapons. (on par with exotic or ascended weapons when they are released)

tyke.5602:

What if they stay as a level 80 Legendary and if the expansion bumps the max level to say 85 and New Level 85 Legendaries are released?

Good luck keeping the players that wasted hundreds of hours and in some cases hundreds of gold to obtain the 80 legendaries.

or maybe just a simple relatively easy to do mystic forge recipe that upgrade a lvl 80 legendary to a lvl 85 legendary, that way ppl can upgrade when they are ready for it, with minimal cost, something like a few skills points worth of crystals/philosophers stones, some dust and something else that easy to get

But really… lvl increase wont be anytime soon, yes they said they do it at some point, and an expansion is likely a good geuss, but i dont think we are anywhere near a real expansion

Chorel.1720:

tyke.5602:

What if they stay as a level 80 Legendary and if the expansion bumps the max level to say 85 and New Level 85 Legendaries are released?

Good luck keeping the players that wasted hundreds of hours and in some cases hundreds of gold to obtain the 80 legendaries.

As if they care. 10000’s of people left when they added the horrendous gear treadmill patch and they didn’t gain any newcomers with the lagfest called karka event either. My contact list shrunk to 1/4th and my guild from 24 active at a time to 4-7 active at a time.
Why would they anyway? It’s not subscription based.

Isn’t raising the levels of a Legendary be kinda awkward with so many people transmuting their Legendaries onto Exotics with the desired stats?

Edit: filter didn’t like “of” “awkward” next to each other…

Anet have stated, ‘repeatedly’ Legendaries will ALWAYS be the best (or equal) best items in the game and they will upgrade them should the need arise.

So Legendaries will never be devalued…

Arekai.5698:

Anet also said they wouldn’t add gear treadmill.

Actually to be fair to the devs, they never made that claim.

We mostly just assumed that when they said that GW2 would “take everything we love about GW1” that it meant “no gear treadmill” since that was one of the most beloved features of GW1 for many people (including most of my friends, who have since left GW2).

Woo boy, were we wrong or what?

Meglobob.8620:

Anet have stated, ‘repeatedly’ Legendaries will ALWAYS be the best (or equal) best items in the game and they will upgrade them should the need arise.

to the new best tier. They never said anything about upgrading their level. Just as they never specifically said there will be no treadmill, but only strongly suggested it.
Also, if they were to make new lev 90 legendaries, then the legendaries (as a tier, not as the specific current items) would still be BiS, right?

Sito.6352:

Arekai.5698:

Anet also said they wouldn’t add gear treadmill.

There isn’t. Ascended and exotic gear differ maybe 5%.

Lets see, a Berserker ascended amulet adds 126 Power, 85 Precision and 9% critical damage.
It’s exotic counterpart, 90+25 = 115 Power, 64+15 = 79 Precision and 5%3%=8% Critical damage.

That is +9.5%, + 7.5% and +12.5%. Not +5%.

For rings we get
ascended 103, 68 and 8%
exotic: 92, 63 and 6%
And the ascended has 12%, 8% and 13% better stats. Not 5%.