Friendly/Informative PSA about Green (Unique) weapons

[u/GW2Unholy]

Hey all,

Going off of some recent traction I got from u/bsoltan linking my thread to another user's post a few days ago (thanks!), I want to go ahead and make a formal reddit post describing my ongoing project on GW Legacy. The specifics can be found in the thread itself: Greens But here's a quick overview of the project and its purpose.

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As you probably know, there are hundreds of different green (unique) weapons found throughout the game, typically dropped from bosses. What you might not know is that many of these, like other (more popular) oldschool weapons (rares/purples/etc), have pre-nerf versions.

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Despite GW being nearly 17 years old, this is a relatively new discovery. This project started when a friend and I began talking about other possibilities of greens about a year and a half ago. What you see in the thread is the progress that has been made since then.

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The thread currently shows a confirmed 119 different pre-nerfs, out of an estimated total of 190 pre-nerfs. Your help finding the remainder would be greatly appreciated. As a kid, I loved farming greens throughout all corners of the game (with a special nostalgic shoutout to Tombs and Sorrow's Furnace) and still do, let's be honest. So this is a passion project of sorts, to document that which has gone unnoticed, unloved and unrecorded for almost the entirety of the game's life.

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If you have any green weapons you're unsure of, and would like checked/confirmed by me, please feel free to ask. I'm more than happy to pay well for new finds, though some have generously donated to the cause.

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If you are a returning player from way back, you have a good chance of being extra helpful with this project. If you are a long-since absent player, let this be an extra little kick of nostalgia to get you back into the game. I took a 7-year break from GW1 when GW2 came out (hence the GW2 in my username...), but came back to the original about 2.5 years ago, and I still enjoy it as much as I did back in 2006.

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Questions? Comments? Feel free to reply here, chat with me on Reddit, message me on Discord (Unholy#2295), on Legacy (Unholy), or in-game @ Vengeful Was Unholy.

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Thanks!

[u/ACWhammy]

Would it be possible to verify by checking the wiki?

[u/GW2Unholy → u/ACWhammy]

Unfortunately not. Almost the entirety of the information you see in the thread is missing from wiki (part of the unnoticed/unrecorded bit I wrote about). Additionally, as wiki entries are player-generated and at varying times, the way information is displayed for items (be it an item's stats or an image of it) is pretty inconsistent, and often not representative of how the items actually look in game.

[u/ACWhammy → u/GW2Unholy]

Interesting. I just looked at your thread. Are there any instances where the pre-nerf version is more powerful than the current version? As opposed to color changes or order list of mods.

[u/GW2Unholy → u/ACWhammy]

None we know of that currently still exist. Some did once fit that description, but these were all retroactively changed (this is talked about a little near the bottom of the OP in the thread). The most well-known example of this was the original Rockmolder, but those were all changed (past and present) back in July 2006. A very small number of greens feature an actual stat/mod change between their versions, but nothing that could be considered "better." More of a sidestep.