What can I do with the legacy competitive points?

[PapalatteFan #1]

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[Sarge the Erdrick dog dawg]

Buy golden weapon skins but not jade ones

[Toaster]

Actually it seems you can't buy golden weapons with them either... I have 3000 legacy competition points but on every hero the button to purchase a golden weapon is "grayed out"

[Ernesto]

Originally posted by Baja:

Currently bugged atm

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/unable-to-unlock-gold-weapon-skin/901583/60

this is a certified Blizzard quality classic.

[ModernSamurai]

Seems like legacy competitive points are useless, as it shows the red competitive points even when you want to buy the golden guns. So what's the use for the legacy points now?

This seems like an unnecessary change to the system. Just let there be one currency.

[hypadao]

Originally posted by ModernSamurai:

This seems like an unnecessary change to the system. Just let there be one currency.

This is a necessary change, they did that so every new competitive year you have a new weapon color to grind, it is like temporary title

[ModernSamurai]

Originally posted by hypadao:

Originally posted by ModernSamurai:

This seems like an unnecessary change to the system. Just let there be one currency.

This is a necessary change, they did that so every new competitive year you have a new weapon color to grind, it is like temporary title

Why? One single currency, and they can still put in new weapon colors and people can buy gold and other colors with that one currency. Why two currency? And you can only get the legacy one after a whole year.

[hypadao]

Originally posted by ModernSamurai:

Why? One single currency, and they can still put in new weapon colors and people can buy gold and other colors with that one currency. Why two currency? And you can only get the legacy one after a whole year.

Because this is supposed to be a temporary exclusivity, competitive players have been asking for this for a long time.

[Silverlight]

Originally posted by ModernSamurai:

Originally posted by hypadao:

This is a necessary change, they did that so every new competitive year you have a new weapon color to grind, it is like temporary title

Why? One single currency, and they can still put in new weapon colors and people can buy gold and other colors with that one currency. Why two currency? And you can only get the legacy one after a whole year.

FOMO. They wanted people to play COMP more so they made a lazy recolor that was "hard" to get.
if it was just "legacy" comp points, their entire playerbase would just used their saved stack or do it in their own time.
This way pushes more people to play comp just for skins. Essentially giving Blizz tons of unmotivated hardstuck gold ranks to manipulate in MM

[hypadao]

Originally posted by Silverlight:

FOMO.

You're just telling me that you don't know what FOMO means, because you literally can't miss the new recolor since it will be buyable with old coins the next time they add a new recolor

[Silverlight]

Originally posted by hypadao:

Originally posted by Silverlight:

FOMO.

You're just telling me that you don't know what FOMO means, because you literally can't miss the new recolor since it will be buyable with old coins the next time they add a new recolor

I would think this was an intelligent comment if it didnt disregard time, the most important aspect of FOMO.
Using the weapon RN, before it reaches "legacy"status makes you feel like a big tough guy that has smth no one else does.
This creates have and have nots between players.
In order to avoid MISSING out on this. You play.
Its like gradeschool stuff, man.

[hypadao]

Originally posted by Silverlight:

I would think this was an intelligent comment if it didnt disregard time, the most important aspect of FOMO.
Using the weapon RN, before it reaches "legacy"status makes you feel like a big tough guy that has smth no one else does.
This creates have and have nots between players.
In order to avoid MISSING out on this. You play.
Its like gradeschool stuff, man.

Fair point, but I would argue that making it buyable with legacy points would also be FOMO, because people who have a lot of points would flex on new players with every new recolor on every character on day one. I would even argue that’s worse FOMO if they did that

[BirdDinosaur]

I actually have this issue where I have 2k legacy and 1k of the other one... They honestly should've just kept it all together. There really was no point in separating the two. Its not like they're adding more skins to that area..

[Xmotnaf]

Originally posted by Toaster:

Actually it seems you can't buy golden weapons with them either... I have 3000 legacy competition points but on every hero the button to purchase a golden weapon is "grayed out"

Open the weapon, choose “Open in shop” then “checkout” it should give you the option to use red or white currency. It’s currently working as of 12/19/2025