ArenaNet:Guild Wars 2 suggestions/Unique Weapons Obtained in Pieces

(Discussion)
Piece Together Weapons

Rather than have all bosses drop a complete green special weapon, why not have some of them drop a broken piece of a special weapons such that you need to assemble all of the pieces before you get a complete useable weapon? Like you could get the handle for a sword from one boss, and broken segments of the blade from 2-3-4 other bosses. As you get those items, you could combine them with the ones you already have even before you have all the pieces to reduce the inventory space used up, but the weapon would only become usable after you combine all the pieces.

It wouldn't really change the weapons system as you could trade said parts to a special NPC somewhere just like the black moa chick, in exchange for the weapon already pre-made.


 * Why this is a good idea
 * Reduce the number of unique weapons in the game, while at the same time still permitting the bosses to drop some unique item that when combine with other unique items can then complete a weapon
 * Unique weapons would have more value to them because if you had to kill x number of bosses in order to complete the weapons, it would have more meaning than if you just got a lucky single drop.


 * Why it may not work out
 * ANET has probably already created the weapon system and didn't take this into account, but here's to hoping they will for at least some weapons.

Side note Please limit the number of 'unique' items a boss can drop to just a few, and not like 20 different weapons types from a single boss.