First impressions of Eureka (FFXI player)

[Reynhart]

Please do not forget that FFXI items used to have unique effects, and the relics used to allow the use of special weapon skills. Thus the long grind in FFXI needed to obtain such item was rewarded. With the current system, the long grind isn't rewarded at all.

Whatever the effect were, it made them a better weapon than everything else. This is basically the same in XIV, even if we have less metrics to use. Which, by the way, made the comment of Yoshi-P on why he doesn't want to give unique effect to item kinda off. If he fears some weapon will be considered mandatory because they're better, he'd better stop making them mathematically better already.

And the second part of your post is pure speculation of your part. In my opinion it will be like everything else in FFXIV : There ll still be ways to obtain gear of better ilvl (that isn't really usefull in the first place unless you're doing the so called raids of ffxiv) faster than doing Eureka.

If it's like everything else, the only way to have the same ilvl as Eureka during Stormblood will be raiding. Sure, I'm speculating, but it's far too early to judge the future of Eureka and the items tied to it. You can't assume they will work exactly like old relics, since they didn't have to make profits on content created for them back then.