Guild Wars 2

A guild member of mine told me arena net is planning to increase the stats on legendary weapons, thus making them broken instead of esthetically fun.

Normally I would not care weather something like this was true or not.
But because Arenanet worked so hard on creating the only game that is smart enough to realize the the only way to balance pvp and pve is to separate them.

Now we all know spvp is separate in every way shape and form, but wvw wont be.

does anyone know if there is any truth to legendaries getting bigger stats ?

people who choose to spend there time farming shouldn’t be rewarded in this way.

They’ll either be a tier above, or on parr with Ascended items when the full ascended tier is available.

We don’t know yet. Most are just assuming they’ll stay on parr with the current highest tier of gear available.

When Ascended weapons are released, legendaries will be scaled up to match the stats of those so that they aren’t “out-dated.” They’ve stated that they are intended to stay on par with the highest available tier of weaponry.

Legendaries will be getting increase in stats. When they will is when ascended weapons come out. So they wont be broken cause they will always be par with the highest weapon tier.

are they planning to make ascended weapons craftable?

or at least always have a way to craft the latest stats?

that makes sense right? and would fit with the way things are now.

I don’t like the idea of gamers spending crazy amounts of time doing pve and dungeons to get the biggest stats and then walking into pvp (wvw) and dominating. that never made sense to me.

NeedCoffee.1402:

are they planning to make ascended weapons craftable?

or at least always have a way to craft the latest stats?

that makes sense right? and would fit with the way things are now.

I don’t like the idea of gamers spending crazy amounts of time doing pve and dungeons to get the biggest stats and then walking into pvp (wvw) and dominating. that never made sense to me.

This is one of many, many posts that have missed the repeated developer statements that ascended equipment is intended to be available from every part of the game. This includes general wold PvE (Which is the focus of the next two months) as well as WvW and non-fractal dungeons.

In fact, they’ve even apologized for the move of putting the current gear exclusively in fractals, and agreed that it was a bad move in terms of how it looked to players.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

When Ascended weapons are released, legendaries will be scaled up to match the stats of those so that they aren’t “out-dated.” They’ve stated that they are intended to stay on par with the highest available tier of weaponry.

^ this answers the thread.

The real question is what happens to those who used legendary weapons as skins for their exotics for stats they liked.

That’s gonna be one hell of a storm.

Not really. Then they can go get a new Asc Wep for the stats and transmute it.

PopeUrban.2578:

NeedCoffee.1402:

are they planning to make ascended weapons craftable?

or at least always have a way to craft the latest stats?

that makes sense right? and would fit with the way things are now.

I don’t like the idea of gamers spending crazy amounts of time doing pve and dungeons to get the biggest stats and then walking into pvp (wvw) and dominating. that never made sense to me.

This is one of many, many posts that have missed the repeated developer statements that ascended equipment is intended to be available from every part of the game. This includes general wold PvE (Which is the focus of the next two months) as well as WvW and non-fractal dungeons.

In fact, they’ve even apologized for the move of putting the current gear exclusively in fractals, and agreed that it was a bad move in terms of how it looked to players.

Awesome. That was what I was hoping to hear. Thank you.

and yes your right, i missed any kind of statement from the developers. I should have been a better GW addict and kept on top of that stuff, or at least looked for a similar thread. but the truth is I only have roughly 10 to 15 hours a week to play, so I don’t spend my time reading the forums much.

I have crazy respect for arena net for making so many good choices. I should have just been more patient and not jumped to conclusions.

NeedCoffee.1402:

PopeUrban.2578:

NeedCoffee.1402:

are they planning to make ascended weapons craftable?

or at least always have a way to craft the latest stats?

that makes sense right? and would fit with the way things are now.

I don’t like the idea of gamers spending crazy amounts of time doing pve and dungeons to get the biggest stats and then walking into pvp (wvw) and dominating. that never made sense to me.

This is one of many, many posts that have missed the repeated developer statements that ascended equipment is intended to be available from every part of the game. This includes general wold PvE (Which is the focus of the next two months) as well as WvW and non-fractal dungeons.

In fact, they’ve even apologized for the move of putting the current gear exclusively in fractals, and agreed that it was a bad move in terms of how it looked to players.

Awesome. That was what I was hoping to hear. Thank you.

and yes your right, i missed any kind of statement from the developers. I should have been a better GW addict and kept on top of that stuff, or at least looked for a similar thread. but the truth is I only have roughly 10 to 15 hours a week to play, so I don’t spend my time reading the forums much.

I have crazy respect for arena net for making so many good choices. I should have just been more patient and not jumped to conclusions.

Yeah, it can be really hard to keep up with the news, as they don’t update the actual news page on the website with important stuff sometimes.