Guild Wars 2

I remember hearing a while back that the truely awesome thing about Legendaries was that they would auto-adjust to remain top tier weapons even as new content is added to the game. Yet, people claim all the time that they are nothing more than extraordinarily expensise weapon skins.

What’s the Truth!?

Currently, they are extraordinarily expensive weapon skins. If and when we see something better than “Exotic” weapons, Legendaries will be adjusted to match the stats of whatever is higher than Exotic (probably Ascended.) Since that hasn’t happened yet, both statements are true.

The truth is that when ascended weapons are released, legendary weapons will be scaled up to match ascended gear.
at the moment they are just glorified exotics, stats-wise.

Both

Right now Legendaries are extraordinary expensive weapon skins when compared to exotic weapons because they mostly have the same stats, but that’s because exotics are the top tier weapons statwise when it comes to weapons.

However, Anet has said that legendaries are supposed to always be the top tier, so in the future if (when) they add ascended weapons with better stats than exotics, the legendaries stats will be adjusted to be on par with ascendeds.

Those are not mutually exclusive concepts. Legendaries will always have the stats of the best items available. Currently those items are exotics, so legendaries have the same stats as exotics.

If you get a legendary you are trading an unknown amount of grinding in the future for a lot of grinding now (and getting a nice skin).

Cool, I suspected that was the truth. Next question: If you use a transmutation stone on a Legendary so it has the stats you want, will it still adjust when new weapons come out or have you have you turned it into an extraordinarily expensive weapon skin?

Evolution.1758:

Cool, I suspected that was the truth. Next question: If you use a transmutation stone on a Legendary so it has the stats you want, will it still adjust when new weapons come out or have you have you turned it into an extraordinarily expensive weapon skin?

As these ascended weapons haven’t been introduced yet, no one can provide any definite information regarding this. However, Anet seems to be improving transmuted Legendaries into maintaining their rarity (purple font and original name without the sigil modifiers), so I am positive that they plan to bump the stats of those that have been transmuted. It makes no sense why the best weapons ingame should have so limited stat combination anyway.

Leo Paul.1659:

Evolution.1758:

Cool, I suspected that was the truth. Next question: If you use a transmutation stone on a Legendary so it has the stats you want, will it still adjust when new weapons come out or have you have you turned it into an extraordinarily expensive weapon skin?

As these ascended weapons haven’t been introduced yet, no one can provide any definite information regarding this. However, Anet seems to be improving transmuted Legendaries into maintaining their rarity (purple font and original name without the sigil modifiers), so I am positive that they plan to bump the stats of those that have been transmuted. It makes no sense why the best weapons ingame should have so limited stat combination anyway.

Actually i believe i read a Dev say that if you transmute the legendary that it would not be changed with the stat boost. As in if you change its stats from P/V/T to P/P/C
then when they change it it will stay P/P/C and exotic level.

Uther Deathhand.1570:

Actually i believe i read a Dev say that if you transmute the legendary that it would not be changed with the stat boost. As in if you change its stats from P/V/T to P/P/C
then when they change it it will stay P/P/C and exotic level.

Any chance you could track down where you may have read that?

Anyway, I really hope that isn’t the case. Legendary weapons take a lot of work to create and the limited stat combinations on them make them rather useless for many viable builds and play styles. Transmuting them is the only way to get that skin while getting the stats you want.