Guild Wars 2

Hey guys I see that precursors have stats and legendaries do not. Exactly why are legendaries so good if they have no stats someone please explain this to me
Kinda nooby in this department

They have the same stats as ascended weapons, however they also have functionality to allow their inherent stat combo to be changed to any other stat combo when out of combat.

Legendaries have stats, but they are not fixed, you choose them. Whenever you are out of combat you can change the stats of your legendary, for example: you have zerker stats on it, but out of combat you can choose Knight stats instead, or carrion etc etc

So would I just click the weapon and it would pull up a menu or somthing

Yes, exactly. You have an item in the context menu to choose an attribute combination.

You probably saw this dialog before, it’s the same as with some of the crafted backpacks (Mawdrey for example), with the difference that on a legendary weapon you can change the attributes as often as you want.

But that’s not the reason one makes legendary weapons. For the price of one legendary, you can get a whole set of usual standard weapons with every attribute combination and still keep most of the money.

I’m planning on buying my legendary Fromthe trade post

Kabolt.7283:

I’m planning on buying my legendary From the trade post

This is the reason Legendary weapons are not Legendary anymore.

Sharen Graves.1276:

Kabolt.7283:

I’m planning on buying my legendary From the trade post

This is the reason Legendary weapons are not Legendary anymore.

Anymore?
Are you implying there was a point where this was different?

Sharen Graves.1276:

Kabolt.7283:

I’m planning on buying my legendary From the trade post

This is the reason Legendary weapons are not Legendary anymore.

They were never really ‘legendary’ to begin with lol. If the guy wants to shove out ~$300 to buy a legendary, more power to him.

This has become a serious stumbling block for several people. I don’t understand why Anet introduced so many changes to accomodate new players and yet introduce so many nuances that are downright confusing until you figure it out. This is just one, but you would think they could add a phrase like “Selectable stats on binding” or something.

I’m not gonna pay money lol I,m gonna farm the gold

Khisanth.2948:

Sharen Graves.1276:

Kabolt.7283:

I’m planning on buying my legendary From the trade post

This is the reason Legendary weapons are not Legendary anymore.

Anymore?
Are you implying there was a point where this was different?

They were originally account bound. Or possibly even soul bound. In any case, they weren’t tradable, so you personally had to get all the components and make it yourself.

RollingBob.8502:

This has become a serious stumbling block for several people. I don’t understand why Anet introduced so many changes to accomodate new players and yet introduce so many nuances that are downright confusing until you figure it out. This is just one, but you would think they could add a phrase like “Selectable stats on binding” or something.

I think that, by the time you’re going for a legendary, you should be sufficiently aware of where to find information if you don’t know something. Or know people you can ask.

Olvendred.3027:

Khisanth.2948:

Sharen Graves.1276:

Kabolt.7283:

I’m planning on buying my legendary From the trade post

This is the reason Legendary weapons are not Legendary anymore.

Anymore?
Are you implying there was a point where this was different?

They were originally account bound. Or possibly even soul bound. In any case, they weren’t tradable, so you personally had to get all the components and make it yourself.

They were? o_O

I only recall them being soulbound on equip, but always able to sell on TP if you hadn’t equipped it. Though, I wasn’t really busy with Legendary from the start :P

I think they became tradable at the beginning of October 2012. So, the original state of affairs only lasted for a little over a month.