L1: DPS Legacy This first legacy is the weapon’s DPS legacy—as such it has no tier. It is currently at rank 6, which for the level and quality of the weapon in question sets the DPS to 47.0, and it would cost 70 legacy points to purchase the next rank. To see the actual damage range of the item itself, we could view the tooltip by mousing over the item’s icon. You can also mouse over each legacy to get a tooltip which shows the costs and values of all remaining ranks of a legacy, though it doesn’t say anything about ranks that have already been purchased.

This is also the legacy that is currently selected, for the purposes of the “Rank Up” button found at label ‘L7’.

You may notice that this information is a bit abbreviated, making it potentially difficult to tell exactly what a legacy does. If there’s ever any question about a legacy’s effect, I advise you reference the list of legacies and their effects which will appear in a later section of this guide. Also, keep in mind that the amount of bonus a legacy gives can be affected by the equip level and quality of the item itself, giving different values at the same rank for different items.

This is the last visible legacy in the panel, but keep in mind that there is one more than can be accessed from the scroll bar on this particular item.

R1: Setting Slot This slot shows the currently slotted setting. In game, you can mouse over it to see what it does.

The Tooltip

The Legendary Item panel is a great way to work with your legendary items, but occasionally you will just want a quick summary of the item itself. Also, you may end up inspecting other players and viewing their legendary items. All of this can be done from a Legendary Item tooltip.

Tooltips of Legendary Items are very similar to those of regular items, but with a few extra sections for those special features which the Legendary Item system provides. Below is an image of a Legendary Item’s tooltip, with labels corresponding to the key written underneath. Compared to the section on the Legendary Item panel, this will be very brief.

N: Name and Title Like the legendary item panel, this lists the item’s custom name and title. In this case, we can see the effect of the title on the damage type of the weapon at label ‘D’.

X: Experience This is the same experience bar as show in the Legendary Item Panel. Note that you can only see the experience and level of your own items in tooltips. This does not show up when viewing someone else’s legendary items.

S: Summary This is a collection of general information about the item itself. From the summary we can tell that this item is a One-handed mace which can be equipped in the Main-hand (all legendary Melee weapons are Main-hand only). It is undamaged and has normal durability, and can be equipped at a minimum level of 59 by a Hunter only.

D: Damage This tells us all the information about the item’s damage. We can see that it does 90-135 points of Ancient Dwarf-make damage (due to the item’s title) per swing, and that it has a DPS of 47.0 with an attack speed of 2.4. Note that the damage range and the DPS can change as the DPS legacy (not visible here) is improved, but the attack speed of an item is based on its type and equip level, and cannot change.

B: Bonuses This is where any bonuses not covered by legacies and relics go on the tooltip. In this case, we only see the default bonus which appears on all mace weapons of a chance to stun opponents struck by the weapon, but Two-handed weapons will also have their randomly generated innate stat bonuses displayed here, as well as any Class-slot items of Second Age quality or higher. You can read more on randomly generated bonuses in the section on item identification to be found in a later section of this guide.

L: Legacies This shows all the item’s legacies, as well as points remaining and spent. Each legacy features a miniature icon representing its tier, followed by the current rank of the legacy before the legacy bonus and effect.

R: Relics Finally, this lists the relics slotted into the item and their effects. Pretty self-explanatory really.

Now we have a solid idea of how Legendary Items work, and how to manipulate them. Next we’ll talk about how you get into the legendary item system.