As I have been reading from many people now, even with the small changes to the super legendary sword Eternity most owners of the sword are quite underwhelmed. Let me tell you I have been playing this game from release, and for me to just finish this weapon and see the exact same look of sunrise and twilight just kinda makes it seem less legendary than having sunrise and twilight separate. Yes the foot falls were nice, but having black fire and black footprints while wielding sunrise in the daytime looks very weird at least for me. I have to say I would expect no less from Anet seeing their fantastic art team to create an entirely original skin for the much neglected Eternity. I mean its name is Eternity for petes sake! That name alone cries out for its own unique look. So what I have done tonight is create my own idea of how I would love Eternity to look. I hope you Devs take a good look at this post and I especially hope they like my idea and use it in the future for Eternity. If you guys like my rendition of Eternity Bump this post and leave comments so that the devs can see and maybe take it into consideration The file is attached to this post, tell me what you guys think
P.S. don’t comment about other legends needing attention, in my opinion all legendary’s are fine, I am only disappointed with Eternity simply because it is the only one of a kind super legendary in the game..you work for 2 which is ALLOT of work and you get what you already had only you are at the beck and call of night and day..to me eternity is a step down from sunrise and twilight in its current state.
Now that’s how “Eternity” should look much more than just putting Sunrise and Twilight together, very nice. Sunrise for day, Twilight for night is good ’n all, but Eternity should have an all encompassing worldwide/space, timeless/ageless depiction.
That is a beautiful picture; you can see the elements of Sunrise and Twilight in it while at the same time it has its own unique look. Very nice concept.
And for those who already have Eternity, they could be given the option to keep it like it is currently with the day/night change, to split it back into Sunrise and Twilight and reforge them into the new look, or to keep them separate and unsoulbind them so they can sell them if they want to. That way those who have already put in all that hard work for Eternity can choose what they want to do with it.
I like the art. The positions of night and day should change depending on whether it is night or day, adding a nice change to your killing stick every few minutes.
Edit: to expand on your idea, I have attached a photoshopped version that could be used as the “night time” eternity, maybe?
Well you see, the idea I had was that the sword Is imbued with night and day at the same time, so that you did not have to wait for day/night for your favorite look. The sword I painted simply stays as it is in day and night so that the wielder doesn’t feel torn.
That is beautiful! I do think the Eternity should outshine the Twilight and Sunrise equally, even though I have the Bifrost – it looks nothing like ANY staff so with or without effects I love it; so why does Eternity have to look like the 2 legendary gs? Not much thought put into that on Anet’s part. I think this is lovely!
As someone who put all that time and effort in to getting Eternity (side note, it is aptly named as it takes an… eternity… to acquire), I love this idea. I can see both sides of the coin though. You put all the time and effort in to get just one (or both), and may not want to choose between which you wield. Anet’s solution was to allow you to combine the two so you would always have one or the other. On the other side however, I can see why people say it’s a cop out or a lazy excuse of a weapon. You do put a TON of time and effort in to get this weapon and it SHOULD outshine the other two while still honoring and incorporating aspects of the originals into the new blade. Though I am glad I can finally tell the difference between my Eternity and someone else with Twilight or Sunrise in Lion’s Arch, I do feel like there should be a bit more to the weapon to not only reward those that put the time and effort into getting the blade, but to also encourage players to pursue it. What you have done with this new idea is amazing and I would personally love to see my guardian running around with it. Hopefully the devs will take notice!
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As someone who put all that time and effort in to getting Eternity (side note, it is aptly named as it takes an… eternity… to acquire), I love this idea. I can see both sides of the coin though. You put all the time and effort in to get just one (or both), and may not want to choose between which you wield. Anet’s solution was to allow you to combine the two so you would always have one or the other. On the other side however, I can see why people say it’s a cop out or a lazy excuse of a weapon. You do put a TON of time and effort in to get this weapon and it SHOULD outshine the other two while still honoring and incorporating aspects of the originals into the new blade. Though I am glad I can finally tell the difference between my Eternity and someone else with Twilight or Sunrise in Lion’s Arch, I do feel like there should be a bit more to the weapon to not only reward those that put the time and effort into getting the blade, but to also encourage players to pursue it. What you have done with this new idea is amazing and I would personally love to see my guardian running around with it. Hopefully the devs will take notice!
I agree with your second statement of coarse :p but yeah, I feel that a player would much rather prefer the sword to look original so that when your in lions arch you don’t look at a guy with twilight and think to yourself..i have that same sword…only i worked double time for it. You know what i mean? I just feel it needs to stand out. that little gem is not enough for working for 2 imo
Precursors have a kittened high price at the moment, but I guess its due to the huge money spit in during queen’s jubilee. If this version of eternity would become a reality, I would imagine loads of people driving the prices of the precursor, in a ridiculous price then what it is today. Dawn floats around 600g while dusk floats around 790-810g. Now you can imagine eternity being a reality. precursor around 1k g? C’mon that’s a bad way to set the precursor at because simply one unique legendary such as eternity would cause huge demands. What about the people that only want one of the certain great sword, is it really worth driving the price in such high manner?
I mean I do love the idea of eternity you have there, but I am scared of the consequences which will come out of this blade.
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YES! If Eternity actually looked like this I would actually try and work toward it, and, would just enjoy seeing other players in game wield this. The literal fusion of Sunrise and Twilight is a little lack luster. You want a legendary for the looks and to show off, but whats the point in going through that immense amount of effort to create two legendarys if the final product is just a weapon that looks the same as the other two. Eternity has the potential to be an amazing weapon to behold, and this concept picture is definitely it.
Precursors have a kittened high price at the moment, but I guess its due to the huge money spit in during queen’s jubilee. If this version of eternity would become a reality, I would imagine loads of people driving the prices of the precursor, in a ridiculous price then what it is today. Dawn floats around 600g while dusk floats around 790-810g. Now you can imagine eternity being a reality. precursor around 1k g? C’mon that’s a bad way to set the precursor at because simply one unique legendary such as eternity would cause huge demands. What about the people that only want one of the certain great sword, is it really worth driving the price in such high manner?
I mean I do love the idea of eternity you have there, but I am scared of the consequences which will come out of this blade.
Some time before the end of the year, all players will be able to craft the precursors themselves so no, I do not imagine this would be an issue in the slightest. By February i would assume the price of dawn / dusk will be in the 200g range.
Precursors have a kittened high price at the moment, but I guess its due to the huge money spit in during queen’s jubilee. If this version of eternity would become a reality, I would imagine loads of people driving the prices of the precursor, in a ridiculous price then what it is today. Dawn floats around 600g while dusk floats around 790-810g. Now you can imagine eternity being a reality. precursor around 1k g? C’mon that’s a bad way to set the precursor at because simply one unique legendary such as eternity would cause huge demands. What about the people that only want one of the certain great sword, is it really worth driving the price in such high manner?
I mean I do love the idea of eternity you have there, but I am scared of the consequences which will come out of this blade.
Some time before the end of the year, all players will be able to craft the precursors themselves so no, I do not imagine this would be an issue in the slightest. By February i would assume the price of dawn / dusk will be in the 200g range.
That is pretty interesting cause the otherday I went on a fan site (of course this isn’t a 100% official statement by arenanet but this is what he said)
“I was going to post about something completely different – I had finished writing and translating it and everything really – but then THIS comes out and everything else suddenly seems so unimportant! ArenaNet’s reply to people asking, begging and crying for craftable Legendaries is… craftable Ascended Weapons! Not quite the same, of course, but is it necessarily worse? Let’s have a assiduous look at what it’s all about and find out. As an example I shall use the very weapon that developer Linsey Murdock demonstrated in the video – the brand new and purply ‘Wupwup Claymore (Ascended)’ greatsword.”
And if you give it a thought. Ascended weapon crafting do well as legendary, only difference is its not versatile as the legendary. Which make me doubt that there will never be a way to address precursor, now that ascended weapon crafting do the same job as a legendary would do.
this would be awesome.
I can’t tell you how many times i’ve had someone ask…“is that Twilight” and “is that Sunrise”…makes me wonder why i went through the trouble of making 2 legendaries to have eternity when it looks just like an ordinary legendary.
can’t say that i still find it worth it to craft but IF eternity looked like that with the day/night concepts it would certainly be a huge step up, great art guys. the red one needs a little night-time sky on it, and the the day one needs more of a sky blue pommel methinks to just keep them within the whole day/night thing but hey that’s my opinion.
No thanks… and yes – I am going to say something about other Legendary Weapons. We have 3 Legendary Greatswords. Arena Net should focus on making a decent looking staff instead of changing the Legendary which comes in THREE versions.
No thanks… and yes – I am going to say something about other Legendary Weapons. We have 3 Legendary Greatswords. Arena Net should focus on making a decent looking staff instead of changing the Legendary which comes in THREE versions.
As I stated in the original forum post, this thread is not for people to complain about what other legendary’s need, and as much as some of those legendary’s may be accused of needing rework, Eternity is the only of its kind, a blend of two and therefor I feel it deserves more attention than a simple cloning, you cannot call it a “third” sword when it replicates its predecessors in an alternating form. and do not worry, new legendary’s will be out soon and I have a suspicion that because there were two great swords, there will not be a new one when the next legendary gen is released.
I really like the picture, but I have to ask… Did you not know what you were making when you spent all that time crafting two legendaries? I just don’t understand why you would spend hundreds of hours to make Eternity if you didn’t like the way it looked.
As I stated in the original forum post, this thread is not for people to complain about what other legendary’s need
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Yeah – I know and I am sorry about that but I have to intervene when someone wants to waste time and resources for Eternity when we already have 2 other Legendary Greatswords… AND only one Legendary of each different type. Your idea is very good and I like it BUT you will not get my support as long as we have only one type of other Legendary Weapons.
I really like the picture, but I have to ask… Did you not know what you were making when you spent all that time crafting two legendaries? I just don’t understand why you would spend hundreds of hours to make Eternity if you didn’t like the way it looked.
Well for one, I never said I don’t like the way it looks, the problem is it doesnt have a look. it is literally sunrise and twilight. I was also going to keep the two swords separate at first, but then they added the footsteps..little did i know that owning eternity gets rid of the spinning projectile effect from sunrise and twilight but also gets rid of the circular aura that bursts off of your character when you unsheathe the weapon. these two factors made me rethink my decision thus I drew my own idea. I really hope anet considers it.
Eternity isn’t worth it at this moment, it is easier to switch between Sunrise and Twilight if you want a change in the view of the weapon.
But if Eternity would look like the concept you just posted it is worth it.
It looks very good.
The file is attached to this post, tell me what you guys think
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