Quote Originally Posted by Auryan View Post
I consider usage other than just pretty colors as a positive gain, yes.
Pfft! ARR relic was and still is the worst of the three. Those horrible books and terrible Atmas easily put it down at the bottom of the list.

All of that for a piece of vanity. Call Eureka whatever label you want, at least the weapons and gear provide further use. You can't pretend that the zodiac and anima weapons offer that. They are just pretty, dead weights in your armoury and retainer slots.
The extra functionality you're so keen on is only even useful because Eureka was poorly designed. Instead of extra functionality to make the weapon more exciting, they should have just designed Eureka with the inevitable downturn in participation in mind. That weapon is only available to you, especially in the upgraded form that will allow you to solo things, after you've pretty thoroughly exhausted Eureka and likely have little reason to return unless you really want another glamour piece. It's not going to help people who go through Eureka for the first time next expansion. It's like celebrating having a crutch because you need it to walk after shooting yourself in the foot for no reason.

Reducing the other relics to mere "vanity" is obviously unfair as well. Sure, they're just glamour now, but that's most of the gear in this game, and glamour is also about the only reason you'd ever get any use out of your Eureka weapon's extra functionality. At the time, they were BiS (random Diadem drops aside). If you just want free glamour pieces, there are plenty of ways to add those without degrading the relic weapons.