Guild Wars 2

Hello gw2 mates, I would like to ask something that has been bugging me for a while.

(I am not aware if the following items are transmutable)

Q: Will transmuting a precursor weapon affect it later on when attempting to craft the Legendary? (lets say it’s ‘appearance’ got transmuted)

Q: Will transmuting a legendary affect it’s base stats and no longer make them escalate according to weapon updates?

1. Yes. If you transmute a Precursor it does not work in the Forge for making the Legendary. I’ve heard people call it a bug, implying that it will be fixed, but I’ve not seen anything official suggesting this will change. (theoretically, the part where it says “This item is a precursor to ____” is on the stats portion, so as long as you kept the stats portion it should still work. But that’s all theory.)

2. We don’t know for certain, because we haven’t gotten to the point where they’re going to update Legendary stats. At one time, Legendary’s changed color once transmuted (No longer being purple, instead being the rarity of whatever item they were transmuted onto) I recall them pushing something to fix this in a patch, but, not having a legendary myself, I don’t now if it did or not.

Thank you very much for the tasty answers codingCaptor! it is as I feared.

I will leave this thread open in case someone has anything to add.