Artifacts vs weapon drops

[Snes]

Which do you prefer? Do you like the hefty power gain from getting a sought after weapon from a raid/dungeon, or do you prefer the small incremental increase from artifact weapons?

I'm more partial to weapon drops. If they continue this artifact thing, I'd rather they just bring back the Relic slot for all classes (Librams for Palis, Totems for Shaman, Quivers/Pouches for Hunters, etc.). Although ultimately I'd be happy to never see artifacts again.

[Eleccybubb]

I hope we go back to weapon drops after Legion. Much prefer getting that awesome upgrade that I earned from a boss kill.

[FelPlague]

i think the artifact, but instead of having 3 relics
you had the old relics, like a libram, tome, etc

and it acted like the old ones, doing something to a specific spell

so you would have your artifact, ands the more points you put in, the higher the ilvl
but then you also have this offhand thing, that goes on your hip, a libram, relic, tome, etc, that gives you an augment to a spell, and stats

[Super Kami Dende]

I like the Artifacts. Weapon Drops have always been boring to me since transmog came along since I just xmog it to the same look and it's basically just a stat bonus.

Artifacts are great in the fact I can keep working towards them and keep getting stronger, whereas with my horrible luck I tend to go 80% of a tier with a previous tiers Weapon before I get an upgrade.

[Kaiarra]

I like the idea of artifacts but I hate being pigeonholed into a weapon type I hate the entire expansion (daggers for Feral, fists for Guardian, gun for BM & dagger for Shadow are all horrible).

They should just let you mog any artifact weapon > artifact weapon - so my Hunter could use the bow as BM, Druid could use scythe as Guardian/Feral and Priest could use either of the staff models. I can't even mog those shitty dagger/fist weapons into staves (and my druids transmog collection was obviously a vast collection of polearms/staves as those specs never used daggers/fist weapons since vanilla). If I can mog those horrible daggers to a green there's no really reason to not let me mog it into the balance scythe - make it cost 5-10k gold, I really wouldn't care.

If they fixed that I'd have no problem with artifact weapons, they're certainly much less drama/annoyance than fighting over weapon drops in raids.

[Doomchicken]

I like the artifacts mostly because my luck with weapon drops weren't particularly great in WoD. At least with the artifact weapon I've been increasing it in power on a weekly basis, which is p nice.

[xChurch]

I would prefer artifacts continue provided they fully invested in the idea and gave us far more skins and colours than we have now. It seems like it would get very boring by the end of this expansion if they did constantly give us new models given every patch in the past has had lots of new weapons added.

[Sinndra]

while both have their pro's and con's, i prefer Artifacts because of the questlines/steady weapon progression.

[Al Gorefiend]

Artifacts can be expanded on, but I hope the system is here to stay. A weapon is as important to a hero's identity as the hero himself. All old tall tales sing of a hero and his weapon - Thor and Mjolnir, Cú Chulainn and Gáe Bulg, Aragorn and Andúril, Arthas and Frostmourne..

An expansion I'd like to see for Artifacts are more of them from lore, with different weapon types. Current users of staves get wands, swords or maces, for example. They don't even need to be as strung up in lore as Ashbringer or Scythe of Elune, just make them awesome! Or even reuse old weapons like Val'anyr, Sulfuras or Dragonwrath. It was done with Thunderfury so they aren't against it.
Also, artifact traits were cool for the first week.. The system is pretty bad. I hope the gold traits get baked into the classes and the system removed. There are better ways to do endgame progression - Suramar is proof of that. It turned into just another vanilla talent tree 2.0.

[skannerz22]

getting the most powerful weapons on azeroth then it being replaced by farmer joes sharp toothpick for 100 extra stats doesn't seem like a very good business decision
obviously artifacts forever is the way to go

[Lady Dragonheart]

I most definitely prefer artifacts, they are way more interesting, fun, immersive, customizable, and story-driven. There is also a lot of potential for growth in the tech used for artifacts.

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Artifacts by far, weapon drops were just boring RNG shitfests. It took me 5 fucking months to get a shield to drop in Dragon Soul, that wasn't fun in the least.

[Deleted]

I much prefer Weapon drops, its way more exiciting.

[skannerz22]

I much prefer Weapon drops, its way more exiciting.

but it destroys lore

[Bridius]

I like the artifacts. Gaining artifact power and increasing its strength always feels good for me. It's also nice how they made your off-spec artifacts catch up quickly to the main one by scaling the power.

Not a fan of how they implemented the relics though. Wasting loot drops or bonus rolls for 3 different weapon slots you have to fill just feels bad. Especially getting an ability that you don't care to put in your weapon.

[The7]

I think it's too soon to ask that question, since we're still in the first month of a two year expansion, but so far i like artifacts a lot and hope they stay.

[Katie45]

I love artifacts so much, and I think while they still need to mess with how relics work, so some traits dont out class others, but a whole ton, I think its over all better than waiting for weapon drops and then throwing away your old one.

[-aiko-]

I don't necessarily hate artifacts but I definitely want to go back to normal drops. I mean, when you think about it artifacts are weapon drops, just prettier and tied into a new character progression system. I mean, weapon drops still exist they just come in the form of relics now. And you need 3 of them. So it's even worse. /shrug

[Amerissis]

gun for BM

At least you can solve this by transmogging to a bow or crossbow, unlike the other examples you mention.

[Rotted]

I quite like artifacts tbh, so far I have a DK and shammy at 110, nothing quite beats using a ability frequently to spawn more minions

The dh one not as fond tbh, but guess that's just me liking minions or shiny thing happening which I haven't had on the dh yet