Themed Gen3 legendaries vs. unique skins

[Krzysztof.5973]

Now that we know, we are getting (at the later date) sets based on elden dragons for the Gen3 legendaries, in addition to core set based on Aurene - are you fine with ANet choice here or would you rather see unique individual pieces for each type of weapon instead of different versions of the same skin across the board? 

Edited December 4, 2021 by Krzysztof.5973

[aspirine.6852]

I havent seen them all. I was in doubt at first, the dragon versions of the GS look kinda nice though.  But I think I would still prefer unique ones.

[BlueJin.4127]

At the very least, having different variations of the same skin will make it easier to make a legendary that matches your character's appearance. That's a plus.

[aspirine.6852]

1 minute ago, BlueJin.4127 said:

At the very least, having different variations of the same skin will make it easier to make a legendary that matches your character's appearance. That's a plus.

For sure, the primordus one fits my fire character way more..

[Dami.5046]

I think they are OK actually, I'm in the market to make some duplicate weapons (ie 2nd sword/axe/pistol/dagger) and going down the rabbit hole that the kralkatorrik axe would look great with my binding of ipos, the jormag axe would go with my frostfang etc. so i could be a while making some of these.

But yeah if they are cheaper than making a second shining blade then cool.

Edited December 4, 2021 by Dami.5046

[Flapjackson.1596]

It’s an interesting idea and I’ll try to collect them but I still am in the camp of wanting Canthan legendaries for my Canthan expansion. Feels like so much potential got lost for more dragon stuff again.

[Tails.9372]

Overall I would have preferred unique weapons with dyeable skins / animations. The issue with the gen 3 approach is that it requires the skins to be rather simple to work and we don't know where else they are willing to make some downgrades in order to keep the diversity high (e.g. the weapons shown during the stream were still using the standard sound animations which could lead to immersion breaking mismatches).

[Fueki.4753]

The Black/White/Grey Zhaitan-themed ones might fit with the colour-scheme of my Revenant.

I hope the Zhaitan variants have less pronounced, or at least duller and not so disgustingly bright, particle effects.

Edited December 4, 2021 by Fueki.4753

[Vidit.7108]

We still haven't really see every weapon's basic form yet. So I don't know if I would prefer unique weapons. I like that some kind of quest is involved to unlock variants though, that's interesting at least.

If our trade off is not unique but color variable that sounds worth it. I wish they had announced this before because saying they all look the same was a big let down.

It still remains to be seen for me at least if this is a good idea or not. Also they've made promises about legendary weapons before and that's why we have Gen 2.5 so I'm taking it with a grain of salt until they show work in progress models.

[Gibson.4036]

This system is better. If you like the look, you don’t have to be disappointed because it’s a weapon you don’t use.

If you don’t like the look, you can unlock one of the other legendary looks.

You can use the same legendary on multiple characters with unique legendary looks for each character.