All relics, weapons, armor, accessories, etc. are bland.

[Svalitz]

I agree that the stats on Relic and Artifact are pretty lackluster...

Relic +1 should do more than glow and be higher stats...like give us a new ability with it or something at least ability enhancing...

Otherwise the problem I really have with artifact armor is how much of a throwaway it becomes and pretty much IMMEDIATELY. I know there are +1 to save up for, but that takes time. DL gear and coil gear automatically becoming the endgame gear just wastes the beautiful design of the artifact job gear...it's really disappointing.

[AlphaDragoon]

Otherwise the problem I really have with artifact armor is how much of a throwaway it becomes and pretty much IMMEDIATELY. I know there are +1 to save up for, but that takes time. DL gear and coil gear automatically becoming the endgame gear just wastes the beautiful design of the artifact job gear...it's really disappointing.

Agreed completely.

If it weren't for 1.23 so people already had the original AF, I would say they should have just made normal AF (obtained through endgame difficulty quest lines) and Relic the be all, end all nest to Coil gear instead of having to make a reskin for AF+1. But I understand that thanks to 1.23 existing this wasn't an option, because then a ton of us Legacy players would already have arguably BiS gear.