Guild Wars 2

I was just wondering what people’s thoughts would be upon this? With the recent announcement of PvP getting legendaries by the end of this year, a lot of people are hoping that it’s something hard to achieve like 1 million glory points or something ridiculous.

I am afraid they are going to make it just a grind, which will indirectly hurt tournament players since it takes significantly longer to rank up in tournaments then it does in hot joins. THe extra 200 glory for a win really doesn’t help when you have to wait 6 minutes in-between matches for them to start.

If they were to make legendaries a grind, then everyone would start running bots in PvP since it’s a mindless grind that a computer can do.

We are also running into an issue where solo queue has killed participation in Team Arena. A lot less people are playing and the queue times are really long and sometimes you are forced to play against a top 50 team because there is no one else playing.

Do you think it would make more sense to restrict legendaries to team arenas only? This would increase participation in tournaments. INstead of making it only possible for the top 1000 make it that so it is possible for someone to grind a legendary at the 30% bracket, but just significantly slower.

For example, a top 50 player could grind a legendary much faster compared to someone at the 70% bracket.

I think this would prevent botting in hot joins and increase the participation in PvP for team arena significantly.

I kinda hope that you have to have played a decent amount of tournies to get a legendary. Because hot join grinding isn’t very legendary.

Make it so it requires x amount of paid/unpaid tourney tokens. Or something like that.

i think they already stated they dont want legendaries in SPvP, due to animation changes and additional effects

I sure hope not. I have zero interest in tpvp, and it would be quite a shame if I had to grind tournies to get a legendary.

Legend weps SHOULD NOT BE a reward for big tourneys winners. Top teams play them to get cash n fame not skins. Also, if they were obtainable this way, to see them u would have to be very lucky to face a person who got them.
Also, I payed for the game as every1 else so i should be able to have access to all content in the way i like to play eg pve skins in pvp ( azureflame, volcanous, mjonlnir, legends etc). In GW1 i didn’t play GvG much, but I had eternal set, VS, BDS, Runic blade, Crysta JUST by playing PvP (RA, Cdx, JQ/FA/AB) – faction→keys→ca$h so I was able to get stuff I liked for game style I liked and that was cool. Didnt have to PvE.
In GW2 PvE Legend don’t need ANY skill. Just 2-4months time (my friend left pvp and made legendary from 0 in 3months, including lvling till 80, map etc), or U can also play TP and simply BUY it without even playing the game. So why not achivable Legends in PvP if in PvE every1 who want devote time can have his Twillight or Bitfrost?
In PvP they shouldn’t be very easy to get (as its in pve) but still doable.
For example req to get a skin:
- r40
- All champion titles (Legio, Genius etc)…. [or at least 4]
- 500k glory
-1500 tournament matches won since begining

It needs time and skill to achieve, it needs some grind, coz it needs to have it, is not so easy to get as in pve, and next legend skin will also cost 500k glory which involves even more time spent.
Giving them to big tourney winners is simply stupid, as 99,8% spvp playerbase will never get there, and there should be a chance to get the skin for everybody as it is in pve. Also the 2nd stupid way to obtain Anet could implement – make a legend in pve THAN unlock it for pvp – it would promote PvErs over PvPers even more than its now.

And if sum1 don’t wana see more effects:

let us turn off the projectile effect – Should be as option.

dreztina.4820:

I sure hope not. I have zero interest in tpvp, and it would be quite a shame if I had to grind tournies to get a legendary.

So basically, you want Legendaries to be farmed in hot joins? Do you now see how this would be an issue for players? People will be running bots that ruin the experience of others just to get a legendary.

MaXi.3642:

i think they already stated they dont want legendaries in SPvP, due to animation changes and additional effects

Who said that? Their blog post directly states that implementing legendaries in PvP is in the works because they wanted to have PvP progression rather than just grinding ranks.

Chase.8415:

dreztina.4820:

I sure hope not. I have zero interest in tpvp, and it would be quite a shame if I had to grind tournies to get a legendary.

So basically, you want Legendaries to be farmed in hot joins? Do you now see how this would be an issue for players? People will be running bots that ruin the experience of others just to get a legendary.

Just because you say something more than once, doesn’t make it true.

I think if you got a legendary from PVE it should transfer over as a skin if you wanted. Kinda like the radiant skins now you get form points… I already grinded the kitten out of PvE took 2 months off to do it now i should be able to do it this way. If they want to make legendaries useful in pvp then i should be able to use the skin from pve as well. :p

Also think i shouldn’t have to run tournies to get them. I don’t run a lot of solo Q and i dont have a team.. some of us run hotjoins.. so why punish those that pvp that way.. Tourney already has enough goin for it with cash prizes now if they allow tourney to be the only way to get legendaries ill prob end up just not doin it and sayin I told you so .. b/c anet is how anet is. all about your $$

But no announcement yet on how to get them so for now i won’t worry

TheZeus.8617:

I think if you got a legendary from PVE it should transfer over as a skin if you wanted. Kinda like the radiant skins now you get form points… I already grinded the kitten out of PvE took 2 months off to do it now i should be able to do it this way. If they want to make legendaries useful in pvp then i should be able to use the skin from pve as well. :p

No No one more time NO. Yay pve boyz will come having 2, 5 legendaries right away coz they made it pve, so ofc, same like with radiant/hellfire, promote PVEr’s MORE.

N O.

PvP Skins should be separate from PvE. PvP legend their own way to make, Pve ones
own. NO transfer between PvP<->PvE.
NO more promoting Pvers over PvP. If they will do such, some ppl will get frustrated and leave.
They should take care of pvp finally – BALANCE and rewards.

Chase.8415:

Who said that? Their blog post directly states that implementing legendaries in PvP is in the works because they wanted to have PvP progression rather than just grinding ranks.

im not sure where i saw it, somewhere on the forum, but if you saw this in blog post, then maybe they changed their mind or my information was just a speculation