Building Your Legendary Weapon

[RJO]

so the 200 skill points how in gods name do I get 400 if I want to d/w

Once you hit level 80 you continue to gain levels in the form of skill points.

Plus there are a boat load of skill challenges... it won't be as bad as you think... ish.

[RJO]

400 skill points
4000 harvested items
26 runs of ascalon catacombs
2 bloodstones
2 exotic weapons

/sigh i guess i have a long term goal now.

gw2 has no end game, that game sucks

[RoninZephyr]

Once you hit level 80 you continue to gain levels in the form of skill points.

Plus there are a boat load of skill challenges... it won't be as bad as you think... ish.

So glad they brought that over from GW 1, I had so many extra skill points I didn't know what to do with them.

[Kiylie]

I am actually looking forward to doing this, now if I can just decide which toon will be my main since this looks like a very long-term goal.

[Rayek]

I almost felled out of my chair when I read that post......but once it all settled in that this is definitely a long term goal......All is good!!!

[68W]

oh man scepter + torch is gonna take foreeevvveerr
At least I will have something to do for like 2 years. Haha.

[Okaria]

Bumping this as it's been requested a few times today.

[Kiylie]

http://www.gw2db.com/items/weapons

GW2 database has a list of all of the legendary weapons (listed as level 82, so sort by level) so that you can get an idea of what stats they all have.

EDIT: it looks like they all have power/toughness/vitality on them. Also, anyone see a shield, because I don't

[Deathdanish]

According to reddit and the crazy hardcore players out there, the recipe for legendaries has changed since beta. It no longer just requires the gifts, shard, and exotic. Current research seems to give these requirements:

Forge Item 1 -- Exotic Base weapon (X of Rage)
Forge Item 2 -- Crafted Gift 1, Crafted Gift 2, 100x Icy Runestone, A Superior Sigil specific to the desired Legendary
Forge Item 3 -- Bloodstone Shard, Gift of Battle, Gift of Exploration, 250x Obsidian Shard
Forge Item 4 -- Mystic Clover (not sure how many), Globs of Ectoplasm (not sure how many), Gift of Magic, Gift of Might

Combine those 4 and you'll be rewarded with your very own Legendary.

This means all legendary weapons will require AT LEAST:

The base exotic weapon
525,000 karma
200 skill points
120g
100% World Completion
500 tokens from a particular dungeon
500 Medals of Honor from WvW
lvl 400 in two particular crafting professions.
250 of each T6 fine crafting material

And that doesn't even cover farming/buying all of the basic crafting mats.

Source: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/...on-and-how-to/

[Pequenisimo]

Yah its been pretty insane. Ive been following the forum for a while now. They dont know how many Mystic clovers are needed yet but the only way they know to get them atm is:
10 Obsidian Shards + 10 Ectoplasm + 10 Crystals + 10 Mystic Coins = 20-50 of a random t6 material (mystic clovers being one of these).
So. For those wanting to make this I would probably wait till they find out how many mystic clovers are needed, then make them using this recipe and use the leftover tier 6 mats instead of first farming those for the other gifts.
Its a super looong process. But I really like it. If you have a legendary it really means you've worked hard and have something worthwhile.