Guild Wars 2

Personally I play a Sylvari Necromancer most of the time. I originally started out as a Norn Guardian but it just didn’t click with me like this necro did.

With my necro I’ve gone for a full condition damage / toughness build with runes of the undead to boost my condition damage and toughness further (with a 6 rune bonus of converting 5% of my toughness into condition damage). This basically makes me an unkillable death machine in most situations, I use a scepter / dagger weapon set primarily, with a staff as the secondary skillset.

And I have to say, nothing beats the feeling of getting 16 stacks of bleed and then throwing out an Epidemic (Necromancer utility skill) which then spreads every stack of every condition to all enemies in the radius. It’s lead to things like hexakills in sPvP and also I have probably the most consistent AoE damage its possible to have which has all kinds of applications when it comes to dynamic events, dungeons and especially farming.

I think the main thing that puts people off necros is the slow start, it doesn’t really get good until at least around lvl 30 or so and my build is especially level dependent because it relies a lot on those runes I have.

The ability to pick from the prefixes already present ingame would be enough. Obviously defining your own stats would be a bit much, but as it stands now with the limited choice of legendaries you either have one that matches your build or you don’t.

Maybe not even give access to every prefix and simply crafted ones, this would also give a possible method of implementing the change, throwing an orichalcum inscription (or a few) into the mystic forge with the legendary in order to switch it to those stats.

Also, I don’t think that simply adding more legendaries would help much. Yes you’d have different stats but also different appearances. In that situation it’d still be nice to change the stats of my legendary because I might prefer the stats of one over the other, but prefer the appearance of the one with the stats I don’t want.