Quote Originally Posted by Colorful View Post
The Artifact weapons in WoW: Legion blow FFXIV's relics out of the water, I hope there's still time for them to look at that system and copy a few things. Sure, they don't have the same amount of money or manpower, but they don't need 30+ different weapons with 5 different skins each. 1 for each class with 2 skins would suffice.

Or at the very least, don't make it an RNG based grind...
I think you're missing the part where those WoW Artifact weapons are going to be absolutely required for endgame content. Their existence will reduce the weapons elsewhere that would normally be drops.
And a Tank able to Raise itself? Yeah, SE will never give that sort of OP crap to us here. Relics here are an alternative to traditionally acquired weapons.
Also, they're going to hand out the base form of the Artifact, probably during one of their infinitely boring wall o' text quests.
The Trait system sounds fancy, but it'll end up being the vanilla/BC era Talent Point system, where everyone has one good 'spec' for the weapon they have and that's that.

Relics here are a devoted effort to unlock to its full potential. By all descriptions so far, the WoW artifacts won't require any additional effort on the part of the player to gain the points to upgrade it, since it especially mentions "Just do all the things you were going to do if we didn't have Artifact weapons!"

That's a fairly fundamental difference.