Guild Wars 2

Hi all, hoping you could help me. I want to transmute my legendary scepter to rabid stats. My question is what happens? IF they ever decide to give it ANY effects, will the transmuted weapon also get those effects? If I transmute it will it still display as purple? Anyone who has xmuted a lege could help me greatly as I’ve worked my butt off to get it and I’m still holding out hope that it will get some effects one day so I don’t want to ruin it :o) thanks in advance!

Nobody knows, but they are trying to make it so you retain your stats.

I think if they add footsteps or other particle effects you’ll get those because it will be part of the skin, which is what you’re saving when you transmute it. It will also keep the effects it already has like the planets moving and the glow.

The text should stay purple too because people complained about that early on and they fixed it. Although I know with other transmuted items it’s not consistent. I’m wearing temple armor with various skins transmuted onto it and most of the time the name is correct but occasionally it will show up either the original name of the temple armor I started with or the name of the piece I got the skin from (in it’s original colour).

You should also be aware that at some point in the future Anet are likely to add ascended weapons. They’ve said that when they do legendaries will be automatically upgraded to ascended stats (at the moment they’re exotic) but they haven’t said anything about if and how this will affect transmuted legendaries.

My guess is that they will upgrade the stats if they can (meaning if the way the item database works allows them to identify transmuted legendaries and doesn’t just treat them as regular exotics) but no one knows if the upgraded stats will also revert to the ones the legendary had originally or keep the ones you’ve transmuted it to. Or they might not change at all and you’ll have to get another ascended weapon and transmutation crystal to do it yourself.