Legiondaries are the new purples. Does it matter that they are orange instead of purple? Not really. The ilevel makes them more valuable than standard gear and I feel that's a little off-putting when there is a limit to how many you can equip. Rather equip all just for item level and choose which abilities are on... kind of like a talent system... oh wait we already have that. So now we have a RNG talent system... yeah really fun.