The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 is planning a small change to legendary equipment that could have a big impact and make it much more useful. Accordingly, the cheer of the players is immense.
What is this change? In the forum, the developers of Guild Wars 2 announced the Legendary Arsenal. In this arsenal, legendary equipment will be unlocked and collected account-wide.
Multiple characters will be able to access the same weapon or piece of jewelry and benefit from its advantages. This is intended to increase the value of legendary items.
At the same time, there is an adjustment that makes saving and loading in the new build templates easier. The templates were criticized at release for hardly considering the legendary items.
The exact date of the update is still not confirmed.
Why is this special? Legendary equipment is very expensive and time-consuming to create in Guild Wars 2. As a thank you, players receive a unique skin and the ability to constantly and freely change attributes, runes, and other enhancements. With legendary runes and sigils, this will even be possible without additional inventory space.
Many players forgo crafting due to the costs or limit themselves to a few skins. Since legendary equipment does not provide any advantage in attributes, players prefer to create several sets of the cheaper ascended armor for all characters.
However, those who have crafted the legendary equipment constantly move it across the bank or shared inventory slots from one character to the next. This will change with the Legendary Arsenal.
Players are thrilled about the change
How are players reacting to the arsenal? On Reddit, which usually tends to be very critical of Guild Wars 2, there are many positive reactions to the Legendary Arsenal:
- MiniJ: “If the transmutations are also independent for each character, then this is the best innovation that has ever been implemented. Many players will probably want to craft legendary equipment because of this.”
- The1andonlygogoman64: “Nice, if I have all legendary jewelry, I never have to buy ascended equipment again? Very cool.”
- Archon_Wing: “This is great news. It has been a good week for the game. The new WvW jewelry seems interesting, and it will be even more so with the changes. These also give legendaries a sense of being something special.”
What do critics say? The few critics in the thread are only concerned that the appearance of the equipment will also be transferred with the Legendary Arsenal. Specifically, some fear:
- If you craft the legendary staff Nimmermehr but change the appearance to another staff on your ranger, will the skin also change for the necromancer?
So far, there is no answer to this question.
However, I believe that the arsenal does not really always rely on the same weapon and therefore the appearance can be adjusted freely on any character.
Legendary jewelry is the most useful
Which legendary items are particularly worth it? For those considering acquiring legendary equipment due to the changes, it is advisable to first focus on legendary jewelry. These can be applied to all characters since you can freely distribute the values:
- You can find a guide to the jewels Conflux and Transcendence from PvP and WvW directly with us.
- You can find a guide to the legendary PvE jewelry with the colleagues from Guildnews.
- For the back, you can either create the fractal back or the counterparts from PvP and WvW.
After that, it is usually worthwhile to craft the legendary weapons. They are easier to obtain than the armors, and depending on the weapon, more classes can access them.
In the end, those who possess all legendary armor sets, weapons, and jewelry will probably be able to perfectly equip a fresh level 80 character immediately. However, this requires thousands of hours of gameplay and a lot of gold. A great occupation for the endgame in Guild Wars 2.
