Precursor weapon

Precursor weapons are level 80 exotic weapons used to craft legendary weapons at the Mystic Forge. Transmuting a precursor weapon changes it to a standard weapon, it cannot be used in the recipe to craft the legendary weapon. Precursor weapons are obtained by the same methods that any named equipment can be obtained, but have a much lower drop rate.

Acquisition

• Very rare random drop from foes.
• Mystic Forge: extremely low chance when combining four rare or exotic pieces of equipment with an average level of 75 or higher, e.g. one L60 weapon + three L80 weapons or three L75 pieces of armor and a L75 weapon.
• An unlikely drop from various chests:
  • The event chests after killing an epic boss, such as the Shadow Behemoth and Claw of Jormag.
  • Event chests in dungeons.
  • Jumping puzzle chests.
  • Bonus Chests from world boss events; these are more likely than the others to drop a precursor.

List of precursor weapons

Hand	Precursor	Type	Legendary
One-handed
Main Hand	Tooth of Frostfang	Axe	Frostfang
	Spark	Dagger	Incinerator
	The Energizer	Mace	The Moot
	Chaos Gun	Pistol	Quip
	Storm	Scepter	Meteorlogicus
	Zap	Sword	Bolt
Off hand	The Bard	Focus	The Minstrel
	The Chosen	Shield	The Flameseeker Prophecies
	Rodgort's Flame	Torch	Rodgort
	Howl	Warhorn	Howler
Two-handed
Terrestrial	Dawn  Dusk	Greatsword	Sunrise  Twilight
	The Colossus	Hammer	The Juggernaut
	Leaf of Kudzu	Longbow	Kudzu
	The Hunter	Rifle	The Predator
	The Lover	Shortbow	The Dreamer
	The Legend	Staff	The Bifrost
Aquatic	Carcharias	Spear	Kamohoali'i Kotaki
	Rage	Harpoon gun	Frenzy
	Venom	Trident	Kraitkin