Whats the point in legendary armor when epic is better?

[Panackin Skywalker]

Hey people, whats the point in legendary armor when epic is better? Epic has 3 stat slots, plus 1 for engraving. Legendary has 2 stat slots, 1 set bonus, and 1 engraving. So the legendary pieces aren't worth using at all until you have the full set, and when you get the full set of a legendary armor, you unlock the set bonus to engrave on any other piece of armor you want so then you only need to equip 1 armor piece with that engraving to get the set bonus

So epic armor pieces are pretty much better all throughout the game, legendary armors only use seems to be to look cool?? Am I missing something or is this how it's meant to be?

[jaeminPro]

I had this question too.. made a thread but nobody commented. It’d make more sense for legendaries to have another engraving slot to make them worthwhile over epic gear.

[ChibiFenrir]

Legendary bits have higher base stats aswell

For instance an epic has 300 base armour or dps where legendary will have 360-380. (rough guess work but you get the idea) Yeah legendary is more end game for having the whole set and squezzing out all that small extra armour/dps.

[Panackin Skywalker]

Originally posted by jaeminPro:

I had this question too.. made a thread but nobody commented. It’d make more sense for legendaries to have another engraving slot to make them worthwhile over epic gear.

Yeah or instead have 3 base stats AND the set bonus like epics do instead of 2, it seems to make literally no sense at all.

[Panackin Skywalker]

Originally posted by ChibiFenrir:

Legendary bits have higher base stats aswell

they have higher armor, that's it, and the armor that it adds is minimal

[[Wahr] Eogard]

And you know what ? Some legendaries have the same skin as a blue armor but just a different color. (the Greek hero torso for exemple)

[Panackin Skywalker]

Originally posted by Wahr Eogard:

And you know what ? Some legendaries have the same skin as a blue armor but just a different color. (the Greek hero torso for exemple)

yeah the Jason armor is gold and I have plenty of the same armor that's silver instead

[Panackin Skywalker]

I mean I absolutely love this game, it's the best game I've played in a LONG time but this just seems like an oversight of some sort.

[[Wahr] Eogard]

Boot of the Immortal also has a simple recolor

[ChibiFenrir]

Originally posted by jim:

Originally posted by ChibiFenrir:

Legendary bits have higher base stats aswell

they have higher armor, that's it, and the armor that it adds is minimal

Wouldn't say minimal. extra +80 (or what ever the extra amount is) on every bit off armour adds up. so say you have 5 bits of epic at 300 armour each then you have 5 bits of legendary at 380 armour each. The epic would equal up to 1,500ish armour where legendary would be 1,900. that's differenct off 400 armour that's more then if you have 6 bits of epic armour.

With the weapons I agree more the diffences is bearly anything. But you got to remember all the engraving scale of % of the base so high base even if only a little bit means more damage overall.

[Panackin Skywalker]

Originally posted by Wahr Eogard:

Boot of the Immortal also has a simple recolor

Yeah a load of the legendary armor just seems to be reskins, and that's not a big deal for me, but the stats being worse than epics is a big deal in my eyes

[Panackin Skywalker]

Originally posted by ChibiFenrir:

Originally posted by jim:

they have higher armor, that's it, and the armor that it adds is minimal

Wouldn't say minimal. extra +80 (or what ever the extra amount is) on every bit off armour adds up. so say you have 5 bits of epic at 300 armour each then you have 5 bits of legendary at 580 armour each. The epic would equal up to 1,500ish armour where legendary would be 1,900. that's differenct off 400 armour that's more then if you have 6 bits of epic armour.

With the weapons I agree more the diffences is bearly anything. But you got to remember all the engraving scale of % of the base so high base even if only a little bit means more damage overall.

actually on weapons the increase is substantial, since on weapons you get 3 stats, same as epic ones, but the 3rd one is always a legendary effect, whereas with the armor you need to equip 5 pieces to even get the effect

[Tricaliber]

Come on guys, what do you mean? The answer is right there! If you have a legendary set, and then find ANOTHER legendary set...unlocking the engraving for the legendary set boost....you can engrave the legendary set bonus on a legendary set with its own bonus therefore giving you TWO legendary set bonuses (or however many you decide to put on). That in itself alongside w the boosted base stats should be enough alone to make it superior armor than any other armor. sorry i know this thread is old but just picked up the game

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Legend sets has better perk [stats].

Epic sets has 1 extra perk [slot].

It is up to you on how to build a gear set that suits your play style. I dont use the legendary perks at all, not even legendary weapons. Epic pieces makes my character.

[SpiritFire]

ok im revisting this thread even though its not really that old...
people were saying how they just get the main engraving with it and use it on an epic so the epic is better.. BUT..
they recently made the set bonuses far better(sometimes double or in some cases 5 times sronger) than before to change this... doesnt this mean the legendarys are better now? yet i keep seeing ppl in youtube and stuff telling everyone to use and farm epics...
hmmmmmmm.

thoughts?

[STuRoK]

yes, this really annoys me that legendary's don't have equal or more perk slots. WTF. Legendary is totally worthless until you're late game max character and get a full set of something decent. Even then, epics might still be better for many.
The only reason to use a legendary while leveling, is as a weapon, since you get higher dps from it and 2 special perks, if the original is worth keeping.
'Slightly' better stats does not make up for an extra perk slot, sorry.. (which should of course be better, just like epic is slightly better than rare and so on.. this is a given for higher quality gear.. where is the real benefit?) This is such a dumb oversight by Ubisoft. We should either get 2 engravings or 3 perks on a legendary.
We play how many hours, before getting to max level?? I've played tons of hours and I'm only half-way to max. I don't care about leveling fast and getting to max, I want to enjoy the game. I even intentionally avoid too much XP cuz I think I level too quickly and I want to explore everything. But the game ruined legendary items so I don't wear them for the countless hours I play until I can get near max level and practically beat the game first... Really dumb. Hardly a point then.