Guild Wars 2

Hey,

I know its a bit head off and far, but out of curiosity i checked the legendary weapons currently discovered and i was surprised (on the bad side).

All the weapons that the necro can use got power+vit+toughness.
No condition dmg or precision whatsoever.
The most useless stats for necromancer on the legendary weapons.

Am i missing something? or we got totaly screwed and there is not even a point to go after a legendary weapon?

Legendaries have like 1 point more pre stat than exotics (or even same), they are there for the facny skils, you can transmute the skins onto whatever weapon that has stats you like.

Andele.1306:

Legendaries have like 1 point more pre stat than exotics (or even same), they are there for the facny skils, you can transmute the skins onto whatever weapon that has stats you like.

This, plus I don’t even like the look of any of the legendaries that necros can use. I would much rather go for some Arah reward weapons and look kitten without having to blow tons of money.

Sadly all of the legendaries don’t fit with Necro very well.

And I’m not even one of those skulls necros, I look like a traditional ‘mage’ would, just with dark armor dyes. It should be easy to match weapons with me, right?

Well, the cloud-happy Meteorlogicus is out. The Bitfrost is a MAYBE, but we pull out the staff at brief moments. The dagger is… well, I have no idea. But I think it’s a lava dagger, which also doesn’t fit us very well.

Meh, the legendary stats design was really badly made.

Honestly, the effort it takes the to make a legendary weapon and u get wrong stats and un-fitting look…

I rather just farm TA or Arah for the badkitten looking necro gear/weapons.

Only Frostfang fits the necro, Bifrost actually makes your necrotic grasp shoot rainbows.
Maybe also the spear but underwater melee sucks.

This just in you can tranmute your legendary onto a weapon with the stats you want. News at 11

Honestly, i just looked at the visuals of the scepter and dagger.
They are COMPLETELY not fitting a necro, they are more elem/mesmer style weapons.
The TA scepter/dagger looks much more sinister.
Probably the only great looking weapons for us are the trident and spear..but underwater weapons, come on whos going to waste hes life to create a legendary underwent weapon?

Yeah, I agree. None of the legendary weapons suit the necromancer.
It would have been better if they made a legendary set of weapons for each class, instead of forcing necromancers to shoot rainbows or hold a clouded globe in their hand if they want a legendary.

It’s also weird how there is one of each weapon type, but then there are 3 different greatwords.

I’ll keep my Exotics, ty.

Stats mean nothing since you can just ‘mute the look to whatever weapon that has the stats you want. However, I’ve decided there’s no way I’m spending 200+ skill points, millions of karma and hundreds of gold for a staff with swirly rainbows. The weapons that come from the Mystic forge with a scroll and 250 ectos looks so much better.

Seeing how all armor/weapon upgrades are purely aesthetic, I’ll be using my 200 skill points for multiple cool looking weapons instead of a rainbow bright staff.

It still astonish me how people who made such incredible legendaries like Sunrise and Twilight could make flower and rainbow shooting bows.
Where I can find Bifrost animation? And yes, I googled it before asking here.

The trident looks so much better than the staff it’s ridiculous. The trident has live snakes on it slithering around… too bad no one would ever see it.

Ah who cares, MAGIC RAINBOWS OF DEATH ALL THE WAY but yes the stats are a bit disappointing…

Necro-bumped (cwutididthur?). Anyway, legendaries aren’t about the stats, in fact ANet specifically doesn’t want you to need to grind too much for stats (any level 80 can have full exotic gear pretty easily), its about the looks. Unfortunately, the looks aren’t exactly great for necros; they just don’t fit very well. That said, I recall reading that they are going to be adding more legendaries? Maybe they’ll be giving us more… necro-y alternatives.

It’s pretty lame how there are 3 Greatsword legendary skins (You don’t HAVE to get Twilight y’know), yet only one of everything else.

I decided not to even try for a legendary, because like everyone else has stated, they don’t fit the theme of a Necromancer. Also, the Dagger seems pretty underwhelming in general. I mean, it’s just a flaming dagger… Not much original in that, might as well just get the CoF dagger.

I decided to just go with the Ghastly Dagger, but didn’t find out it only glows at night until I actually got it. Such a stupid gimmick.

First of all GG for resurrecting a 4 month old topic…how long did it take you to dig through the forums to find this? …

EzRemake.1860:

I decided not to even try for a legendary, because like everyone else has stated, they don’t fit the theme of a Necromancer. Also, the Dagger seems pretty underwhelming in general. I mean, it’s just a flaming dagger… Not much original in that, might as well just get the CoF dagger.

Have you even seen the Incinerator? Its not a flaming dagger like the one from CoF. It’s a giant blowtorch that wraps your arm in flames, leaves trails of fire when you swing it, and causes you to leave behind fiery footprints. It may not be a Necro-style weapon but it’s still pretty awesome in general.

Next time try youtubing the Legendaries so you can see what they actually look like instead of some random screenshot. Screenshots are horrible for showing what Legendaries look like because the major things that separate them from other weapons are the particle effects (or projectile effects for ranged Legendaries). For example you can’t really capture the window-into-another-world effect that Sunrise/Twilight have with simple screenshots.

EzRemake.1860:

I decided to just go with the Ghastly Dagger, but didn’t find out it only glows at night until I actually got it. Such a stupid gimmick

This is why you look up what expensive weapons (dunno if I’d call an AC weapon expensive but anyways…) do before you buy them. All you would have had to do was type “/wiki ghastly dagger” in-game and you would have seen that it only glows at night. The NPC that sells the weapons also has them equipped so you can clearly see that they only glow at night. That being said I do think it’s pretty stupid that the weapons only glow at night.

As far as Legendaries for Necros go the Frostfang isn’t too bad. After all Grenth is the human God of death and ice, and the draconic/demonic look of Frostfang fits pretty well. And the Axe is a useful weapon for Power Necros.

EDIT
To all the people complaining about the stats on Legendaries: You do realize there is such a thing as a transmutation stone right? If you have the gold to afford a Legendary then you have the gold to buy enough gems for one stone. This means the stats on the Legendary are 100% irrelevant because you can change them to whatever you want.

PVT is the most universal stat, since pretty much anyone would need a bit of vit/tough and power is useful for everyone (I know, I know pure condi not that much).

Anyways, since legendaries have the same stats as exotic, try getting some cool rare exotic weapons. For example, I got my necro the Eye of Rodgort scepter. It’s a curious looking eye that is held by a harpy claw (?) and a red flame surrounding it.

Someone’s video of it: http://youtu.be/vXQKtEGxl-M

steveraptor.9603:

Hey,

I know its a bit head off and far, but out of curiosity i checked the legendary weapons currently discovered and i was surprised (on the bad side).

All the weapons that the necro can use got power+vit+toughness.
No condition dmg or precision whatsoever.
The most useless stats for necromancer on the legendary weapons.

Am i missing something? or we got totaly screwed and there is not even a point to go after a legendary weapon?

On my necro i run Power, Toughness, and Healing power. So I’m fine with these stats. I can always move the healing power of my exotic weps to the accessories that i have yet to get. The only reason I don’t like vit is that it raises the ammount of hp left for me to restore. I’m already incredibly solid.

I prefer corrupted weapons for necromancers

I love the Incinerator look and will have it on my necro