Kosmo.3468 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 I don't know if anyone did this math, but it seems to me that is easier to level another character and equip him/her with ascended gear than farm for a single Legendary piece. I know the convenience of testing many builds in a single piece of equipment is amazing, but the effort to go through that is out of question for me. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taril.8619 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 People like shiny things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo.3468 Posted July 5, 2020 Author Share Posted July 5, 2020 > @"Taril.8619" said: > People like shiny things. Shinies!!!!!!!! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 because I like the skin and because I can don't have much else to spend gold on anyway the only real effort is dragging myself through WvW ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Because I like the skins and wanted a long-term goal. Stat-swapping does sometimes come in useful but it's certainly not important enough to me to justify the time and cost of a legendary. I like customising my characters' appearence, and I like the way some of the legendaries look, so to me it was worth it to make them. I've had my first one (the Dreamer) for years and still enjoy seeing the effects. Since then I've made the Bifrost and Claw of the Khan-Ur (my thief is a charr, so I had to do it) and I plan to make more later on. I absolutely could just make ascended weapons instead, and there's plenty of other nice skins in the game, but I think the legendaries I've made were worth the time. Especially after the precursor collections were added which make it more interesting to get them instead of just grinding gold to buy it from the TP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindcircus.1506 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 > @"Kosmo.3468" said: > I don't know if anyone did this math, but it seems to me that is easier to level another character and equip him/her with ascended gear than farm for a single Legendary piece. > I know the convenience of testing many builds in a single piece of equipment is amazing, but the effort to go through that is out of question for me. > What do you think? I actually will start a Legendary if I am out of "things to do" in PvE. Working on a Legendary gives my play time a goal and focus. Once you get to a certain point in this game, when your toons are all geared the way you want and you've run through your favorite content more times than you can count, sometimes the shopping list of activities in a Legendary Collection is a nice way to fill the downtime. Exposes you to things you may not have seen before/for a while and many of the skins you get as a result are really well made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoGhosts.6790 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Goal setting. Aesthetics. Convenience. Challenge. Profit. Mileage will vary in each of these areas depending on the item and the individual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pninak.1069 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 doing smth. to be able to play the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game of Bones.8975 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 I like the skins and they are a good goal to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moira Shalaar.5620 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 I made Exordium for the skin, ok and astralaria. The rest I do for stat swap because I theorycraft a lot. There will be even more reason to make legendaries once the legendary armory is released and a single legendary item will be usable across all characters able to use that class of armor/weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoGhosts.6790 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 > @"Moira Shalaar.5620" said: > I made Exordium for the skin, ok and astralaria. The rest I do for stat swap because I theorycraft a lot. There will be even more reason to make legendaries once the legendary armory is released and a single legendary item will be usable across all characters able to use that class of armor/weapon. Depends how much they charge for that privilege. If it's anything like the so-called build template garbage... better get a mortgage. My guess is it'll be 800 gems per item slot per character; 18 potential slots per character, that's a lot of gems. Gotta milk that cow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiyo.3578 Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 My storage was full of mats so I turned them into legendaries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moira Shalaar.5620 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 > @"TwoGhosts.6790" said: > > @"Moira Shalaar.5620" said: > > I made Exordium for the skin, ok and astralaria. The rest I do for stat swap because I theorycraft a lot. There will be even more reason to make legendaries once the legendary armory is released and a single legendary item will be usable across all characters able to use that class of armor/weapon. > > Depends how much they charge for that privilege. If it's anything like the so-called build template garbage... better get a mortgage. > My guess is it'll be 800 gems per item slot per character; 18 potential slots per character, that's a lot of gems. > Gotta milk that cow. I have been figuring a per account slot feature like the shared inventory slots rather than per character . . . I would do account ones, albeit slowly. I'm not so sure I would buy them for each character. I have no problem with paying for the QoL although clearly there are plenty of people here that do, but I think on a per character basis would end up being too much. I have been figuring about 600/slot, but that is a totally uninformed guess with no basis other than my own analysis and assumptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails.9372 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 The main reason I bother with legendary weapons is the simple fact that they're pretty much one of the only ways to change up projectile and sound animations on my guns. For rifles and pistols especially these animations are more noticeable than the weapons skins themselves and both regular ingame weapon sets and even the gemstore weapons constantly fail to deliver in this regard so legendary it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrick.9805 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 When I started playing I asked the same question and now my friends who knows that I play GW2 will never understand, but hey they are cool... I guess because I still don't have any but at least now I have a goal to get one haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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