Quote Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo View Post
Artifacts have plenty of lore and story behind them that I axtually care about, as they are pretty much from events that happened during WoW's timeline[...]
And knowing some of that lore is the reason why I'm just shaking my head at giving the players these weapons. But after Worgen Deathknights, I kinda gave up on WoW and lore entirely.

Personally, I'm not getting why people compare the relic with the artifacts in the first place. Artifacts are an entire progression system on their own, meant to replace the weapon progression they used to have for the duration of the expansion (the model FFXIV still uses and that WoW will likely fall back on after legion). The relic on the other hand is just one option in the classic weapon progression system - like Ashkandi and Kalimdor's Revenge (Or whatever the equivalents are for the later expansions). A fair comparison would be to compare artifacts with the raising of iLvL on weapons and there, I have to agree - artifacts are more interesting. I'd personally rather tie such progression to the character however - I am a glam queen at heart after all and the more weapon models, the better.