Guild Wars 2

Personally, I wouldnt mind seeing EQ1 style epic quests in GW2 for precursors. Since precursors and legendaries aren’t class specific, just center a story around the weapon itself. Its origin, previous user, how it was lost or sealed away. Creating the legendary can still be the gold sink it is, but getting the precursor can also be centered around more heroic feats. Have this version be bind on aquire and allow the current versions to still be sellable. Everyone wins.

That would be an amazing idea, a month long hard quest that takes hours = precursor, one per character, you can keep or sell.

I made a thread just like this one a little while ago that had some good suggestions. You should bump it!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Legendary-weapons-should-be-like-Everquest/first#post1300190

I think as long as we’re not talking about story style missions like the person story quests. If it was some sort of event questline, like we had for Halloween, that would be cool. Nothing with instances, but where you had to go places and reach areas that were difficult to get to, possibly to fight a mob that is hard. Maybe Each of the three Dragon Lieutenants has the chance to drop an item that you have to bring all three together to some place that is at the end of a jumping puzzle which will give you something. From there you have to do another series of things. You have to talk to specific mobs that only even become available for a short time at the end of major event chains and you have to give the item to them, or get another item from them.

That’s basically how I recall the Epic Quests in EQ working.

I support this, because I don’t like the current design where I basically have to gamble to get it. If I’m going to start doing work for a Legendary I want it to be guaranteed that I will eventually be able to get it, just that it will be extremely difficult. Currntly there is absolutely no guarantee because there is no way to tell if I will get a precurser or if I do which one.

I want to know I’m working to get the weapon I want and only the weapon I want.

well, my only concern is that any sort of scavenger hunt/questline/path to follow will result in legendary being less of a long term goal, right? because all it takes is for someone to figure out how to acquire them and essentially follow the guide?

i’m not downing it, because i myself would like a legendary one day and what not, just thinking from a different perspective

I think Legendaries lost the prestige when they became buyable. At this point anybody with a job can just buy them. So, if you have a legendary I don’t think about respect right off the bat. I think either one of 3 things.
1. Wow, you just bought that with your paycheck. You so deserve it!sarcasm
2. Wow, you had time to grind through this game for 14 days straight 12 hours a day. You sure have a life!
3. Wow you took a few months to get the legendary. I can’t belive you actaully underwent such a wonky idea from anet. Looks nice though!(This is the only time i give MINIMAL respect to a legendary. All other times, no).

Helenorz.2547:

well, my only concern is that any sort of scavenger hunt/questline/path to follow will result in legendary being less of a long term goal, right? because all it takes is for someone to figure out how to acquire them and essentially follow the guide?

i’m not downing it, because i myself would like a legendary one day and what not, just thinking from a different perspective

But it’s not for the Legendary. It’s for the Precursor for the Legendary. The Legendary still requires all the excessive effort that was involved in it already. The only difference is that you aren’t gambling for your precurser, you’re doing a long scavanger hunt questy thing for it that will absolutely give you the payoff you’re looking for in a reasonable time frame.

I’m just here because it’s 2013 and you said Everquest… and I earned a ragebringer (rogue epic) way back when …. and it is still one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever accomplished in a game. So yeah plus one my friend, plus one indeed.

No, that would ruin game, people go dungeons and dragons just to get one, so no! That would make even more grind .. pff bad idea WoW guy..