Transmuting legendary post april patch.
legendary weapons retain all the functionality regardless of what skin you apply to them. So for instance, I’ve applied my Bolt skin to a regular exotic then that character gains Bolt’s special effects, but it is still an exotic weapon. On the flipside, on my ranger who carries the real Bolt, I change the sword to have an Ascalon Catacomb skin. It now loses the lightning effects and drawing sounds but will retain all the stat abilities as before
As Azrael stated above. Also, you can just apply the old Legendary skin on your legendary if you want the skin on it back. There will be no difference at all from the old legendary.
http://www.reddit.com/r/txs
Well, thank you guys, I didn’t know that they allow to apply legendary skin with transmute. It is fine then, still sad that we cannot enjoy legendary visuals without legendary skins, but fine.