So you are telling me you think people would rather go through the trouble of doing 1500 Metals and 60 Dross/Cinder just to unlock a WS, instead of just making a WoE weapon? I think not, and besides that, if you read the Dev posts they seem to say only WoE weapons are going to be used for unlocks. The original idea was that RMECs would all unlock WSs, but that was before there were plans to update the actual weapons themselves, and before the fact you can already unlock Mythic WSs was brought to their attention.

I think for this reason their idea changed, so we can unlock Emp WSs with WoE, not Relic by any means, and can already unlock Mythic. Also we will not unlock Aftermaths, which was the plan before as well, so far as I know. And finally, in either case this will not effect VW, the only thing that will is the RME upgrades themselves and how worthwhile they are in the end. If they are great, VW will pick up accordingly thanks to those making 99Emps, if the Emps are outdated with their WS unlockable and used with Relics & Mythics as I believe they will be, then Emps will simply die out and VW will not pick back up.