Quote Originally Posted by Auryan View Post
I just recently finished my AST's anima weapon and realized that besides the cute story, there just isn't a whole lot of content attached to it. The "content" is just grinding tomes and trials. All of that for just glamour. But it looks nice though. Even in late HW the animas were mostly just for looks.

With the the Eureka weapons, story-wise they took a back seat in the content, but gained something the previous relics didn't: relevance past their expansions. The Eureka weapons will always be useful when doing Eureka zones thanks to the elemental bonusses. Which to me will be crucial if you want to solo Eureka come 5.0.

In 5.0 they should expand on that trait for the new exploratory content. In fact, expand on the horizontal progression aspect of the content in general.
I don't really want to need extra gear sets just in case I decide I need something from obsolete content. The gear will be required for soloing Eureka, but it's not really a positive gain so much as preventing a catastrophic failure of content that has outlived its prime. It's not really a gain for the artifact weapons in any case. ARR was the peak and they've been degraded each expansion since.