I for one would like the status to remain as it is with legendaries. However I do see your points about the weapon being for ‘one person’ and the drama possibly involved.

I could see the item being ‘guild soulbound’, could work right? Unless the guild agrees to let the player go WITH it.

Not having been in a legendary farming guild, I cannot comment completely,

- Jamin

I dislike the idea of a Rogue only legendary, it feels like a nice shiny reward for a tiny amount of the population; and it probably wont fix the Rogue population. An average solution for the wrong problem.

In my experience it can be, but I think a key element is that the payoff has to be collective, not just the work involved. Hitting key points in guild levelling in EQ2, in my experience, certainly created a feeling of collective accomplishment, and I think a big part of that was that every member of the guild benefited from the extra perks, whether it was being able to move to a bigger guild hall, being able to equip our new hall with NPC harvesters, or being able to buy some of the neat items that required membership in a max-level guild.

I have a friend whose guild has Shannox on farm but hasn’t gotten anything else down. She says their raids are quite depressing. They kill their one boss for the week, shard both pieces of loot, and go run heroics.

It shouldn’t be something you can actually aim at and get it done in 4,5 weeks, like an ordinary meta achievement. It should be something that’s always in the back of your head when you’re raiding because you know it might happen.

For example, I’d say keep all the quest chains and tasks currently needed to get an orange, but make them just necessary, not sufficient. After you’ve done them, you now stand the chance of getting a legendary drop ( you = a certain character or maybe even a guild as a whole). And make the chance very small, so after 1 year of playing an expansion, 2,3 people on the server have it and only if they or their guild have been been extremely active and successful in their raids.

The only legendary I got to wield was the healing mace and while it was a pretty awesome weapon, especially with that sick proc, it never really felt Orange. Main reason for this was that there were many on the server that had it, some even being dpsers as mainspec. Not cool.

I wonder if part of the reason for the overall lack of progress is due to the decline in subs. If the people who left were good enough in a casual guild format to be an asset in Firelands runs (for example, a guild’s #1 tank left WoW or left to join another guild whose member had left WoW), then that might help to explain the issues.