Legendary Relic?

[Davnia]

I started May 6 according to the receipt and bought Steam complete plus SOTO.

I can get ascended gear from the wizards tower with astral acclaim. Is a legendary relic a good first legendary to shoot for considering mainly QoL?

[Charles Patenaude]

Prismatic Champion's Regalia would be the ideal first legendary imo. It's a legendary amulet you get from achievements, which makes it "free". But it does require a lot of content (Living world season 2,3,4 and 5) and a lot of time. The good thing about it, on top of being free, is that it sets you up nicely for Aurora and Vision.

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Originally posted by Charles Patenaude:

Prismatic Champion's Regalia would be the ideal first legendary imo. It's a legendary amulet you get from achievements, which makes it "free". But it does require a lot of content (Living world season 2,3,4 and 5) and a lot of time. The good thing about it, on top of being free, is that it sets you up nicely for Aurora and Vision.

I mean, he/she didn't say anything about easiest legendary to get or "free" one, specified:

Originally posted by Davnia:

considering mainly QoL?

From a QoL perspective the relic is the most useful one, because there would be no need to carry several relics in the inventory or buy/craft them in case of swapping builds/stats, whereas the necklace in terms of QoL isn't really that big, considering that an ascended necklace can be bought from the laurel vendor if needed quite easily at any time for only 30 laurels

[Daniel]

Legendary relic frees up a lot of storage space, because you don’t need to hold on to dozens of normal relics ‘you might need some day’. (Typical MMO hoarding)

The easiest legendary as already mentioned is the amulet because it comes purely from achievements, without any material cost involved and is a good starting place because during this journey you will accumulate lots of other useful stuff in a natural way.

In terms of general usefulness the armor set is probably the best one, because it will cover all possible builds on any of your characters with the chosen armor class. Ascended armor is more costly to make, dumping a full 6 piece set in the forge to respec stats will needlessly drain useful resources, whereas ascended jewelry can be gotten cheaply from the living world 3&4 zones.

Obviously the legendary weapons are the coolest ones but they are really mostly all about the visuals. Changing stats on a weapon is much less useful than changing it on armor or jewelry.

[Davnia]

Thank you very much. I am almost done with Soto, want to finish that before the new expansion. I am in Orr on the personal story so almost done there then will start LW1.

I will work towards the relic and the amulet at the same time as I got complete because I wanted to do all the story. And relic as it seems to be a fairly simple legendary with a lot of QoL for me.

I had not heard about the amulet so thank you for that also.

Armor is eventual want but it will be later on as I don't really have the resources for that at this time.

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Originally posted by Davnia:

Thank you very much. I am almost done with Soto, want to finish that before the new expansion. I am in Orr on the personal story so almost done there then will start LW1.

I will work towards the relic and the amulet at the same time as I got complete because I wanted to do all the story. And relic as it seems to be a fairly simple legendary with a lot of QoL for me.

I had not heard about the amulet so thank you for that also.

Armor is eventual want but it will be later on as I don't really have the resources for that at this time.

Yes, it's very awesome legendary, saves both inventory space and also you then get all the new Relics unlocked that available (without possible achievement unlocks at some point), i could salvage SO many normal relics from all my dozens characters inventories (those were character bound also.....).

So yes, if i had to start Legendaries collecting right now from zero, for sure i'd pick Legendary Relic as 1st one too. So a good pick. :)

And armor/weapons can get "while playing" whatever you enjoy the most, i mean.. if you like wvw or pvp, can get Legendary gear by playing enough and you collect all stuff doing what you like, i have gotten my stuff step by step from WvW, first Ascended gear, was quite fast. Was before Wizards Vault giving them 3kpl each season. So there are several content that can use.. or the SotO open world leggies if like doing it that way. I love the fact that can get Legendary gear by doing so many different content, so can literally get it the way that enjoys the most, or combine them to some extent.

Jewelries comes a bit slow, but.. easy and fast to get Ascended trinkets meanwhile, those can move between characters via bank, because account bound and not character bound after used like Exotic tier stuff is. And Ascended quite comfy to get with from so many sources, in like couple play sessions, if with nothing else, with Laurels fast, or from several vendors with local map currencies. :)

Also Living World season 3.. gathering Winterberries and gets Ascended backpack, so with that and trinkets, can then start your Legendaries collecting with gear that has BiS stats and the Infusion slots (so you can light yourself up like xmas tree with effect infusion auras lol) :P Because for most mortal beings the legendary trinkets will take a moment to get. :P

tldr: Have fun! And yes, Legendary Relic imho best as 1st pick for several reasons. Also quite fast to get (if you already have done craftmaxxing one of the needed ones etc) :)

[Teratus]

The Relic is definitely a nice QOL legend to go for.

The amount of Relics in the game is only going to increase as new expansions come along and if you find yourself swapping them a lot you're going to end up carrying around a fair few per character, as well as storing others in your bank for future use..

It's excess clutter essentially that is just annoying to deal with.
I highly advise making the Legendary Relic asap