What are your 5 most liked and disliked legendary weapons? (2025)

Hey Guild Wars Community!

Now that the release of the third generation of legendary weapons draws nearer, I wanted to ask: What are your five most liked legendary weapons so far?

And to make it even more interesting: What are your five most disliked weapons from generation one and two?

If you want, you can also add extra information and elaborate on why you like or dislike a certain legendary. Or if you only really like/dislike two or three, then just post those!

So here is my list!

My five most liked legendary weapons (in descending order):

1. The Flameseeker Prophecies
→ I just love this legendary! The whole design of the base shield is extremely detailed and intricate. But its effects when drawn just add a whole new level of magnificence! The blue and radiating light enhances the “protective” area of the shield and the blue turning pages of the book make this legendary feel “alive”.

2. Eternity (includes Sunrise and Twilight)
→ What can I say? A literal blade made of sunlight or the darkness of the universe? Awesome! And the smear like effect when swung is also great. Eternity adds on the magnificence of Sunrise and Twilight by enhancing the aura and adding the beautiful gemstone on the pommel. I wish there was a whole set of weapons in the style of these greatswords!

3. Pharus
→ It has a relatively simple Design and it’s not super extravagant in terms of its effects, but I just adore its look! It reminds of an elven bow from Lord of the Rings but infused with cleansing light. And the fact that it turns all arrows into light arrows is just amazing. I also love that its name is derived from the ancient Greek lighthouse “Pharos”, which stood at the harbor of Alexandria.

4. Astralaria
→ I love this one for similar reasons thatI love Eternity for. The whole “cosmos theme” is just something I really enjoy.

5. Bifrost
→ This one may be contentious, but as you can already see, I just love “light themed” legendaries. Bifrost reminds me of Gandalf the White`s staff from LotR but enhanced with the spectrum of the rainbow. The rotating gemstones around the staff just round off the whole look and look really nice.

My five most disliked legendary weapons (in descending order):

1. The Dreamer
→ This is probably unsurprising. It looks horrid, but I could even forgive its look IF and only IF it would not make this absolutely horrible horse sound every time some shoots it. This is the only legendary which can actively annoy people and it takes only one person in a huge Meta-event with it, to annoy 30+ people. But hey, at least we got Chuka and Champawat, so we at least have one good looking shortbow.

2. The Moot
→ Another one of those legendaries that just feel like they do not belong in the game. A disco ball on a stick with trumpets? Really? The only good thing about this legendary is that one can craft a cheap legendary mace for the utility, if one so desires.

3. Quip
→ What an abomination! And another one of these “joke legendaries”. No further explanation needed.

4. Flames of War
→ Oh boy, before the release of this thing, so many players eagerly awaited another legendary torch, because Rodgort is just kind of ugly and boring. But then we got this: A candlestick with horrid design and equally terrible effects. It does not even look like it belongs into a fight. It does not look like a weapon, more like an ugly old antique on a flea market.

5. Shooshadoo
→ An ice shield? Sign me up! Oh wait…. It`s a freaking Quaggan in an aquarium! No thanks! This had so much potential! But the developers decided to put one of the most ugly and annoying races (fight me on that!) into a fishbowl…
Why would one even use such a thing as a shield? It looks like it could break at the first hit it takes. I mean, I really dislike Quaggans, but even I would not put one of them into a glass and use it to defend myself. Animal abuse is not ok! ^^