Guild Wars 2

So I have been working on crafting the minstrel, the legendary focus. I finally got all of the materials together and tried forging it today. It turns out that I am unable to use my bard precursor because I transmuted it.

I am not sure if this is a bug, working as intended, or what exactly. I am looking for clarification on my options now.

I bought the bard ages ago when it was only 22 gold and not considered a desirably precursor. I thought I had read that it was acceptable to transmute a precursor as long as you kept the looks. And since then, my bard has always said that this item is used to forge the legendary focus, the minstrel. So I was under the impression that everything was kitten dorey. I am unable to find any posts saying that transmutation was acceptable.

Due to the forge failure, I asked around and looked on the wiki at several articles. The transmutation stone wiki articles says that a precursor cannot be used for a legendary once transmuted.

So the wiki is sorta official, so I am wondering if I am SOL. I tried searching several forum sections for information about this, but I came up empty handed.

I am looking for someone to tell me officially if I am screwed or there some way to fix this. If I am SOL, it my own fault, and I guess I will have to farm another precursor.

I would make the suggestion however, that if a transmuted precursor cannot be used for a legendary forge, please please please make some kind of warning that you are breaking the precursor so that no one else makes the same mistake I did.

Thanks, Finit

It’s a bug but it’s one that the devs have responds to long ago. They just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

You were also misinformed. Given how the forge works, keeping the stats instead of the skin would still leave you with a usable precursor.