In Guild Wars 2 were legendary weapons so far also legendary hard to achieve. Anyone who didn’t farm rare resources for months as part of a special “legendary journey” never saw such a weapon. But now the developers have simplified the system a bit to get to the legendary weapons faster.
For Guild Wars 2, Chapter 2 of the third season of the living story not only introduces another chapter in the story of the game. A new legendary weapon called “Eureka” has also been added. However, this weapon is not available like the previous legendary weapons through an extensive quest line with gigantic farming effort. Rather, it is now much faster by simply showing up at Master Craftsman Hobbs in Lion’s Arch and getting the recipe.
After that, we will get the necessary resources in Heart of Thorns (which still require countless hours of farming) and build the precursor. Then we will obtain further blueprints and continue to develop the item until it becomes a legendary weapon. Although the whole procedure is less intense and more anchored in the lore than the old variant of the “legendary journey”, the developers can thus bring many more new legendary weapons into the game.
The development of the legendary journeys, according to developer Matt Pennebaker, took simply too much time, which can now be used more sensibly. You can find the full explanation of the new method on the official ArenaNet page.
