Abilities, maybe. Some of those abilities still exist depending on the class. Weapons … eh… debatable.
If you really stop and think about it, very few of the artifact abilities were “necessary” mechanically. A lot of them were just an additional dps cd/rotation, but not really “intrinsic” to beating the fight mechanically.
I know there is no parity with TW. I brought it up as something they could do with TW to make it less faceroll and actually interesting.
I doubt we will ever see eye to eye though.
For me its about the challenge … which can be replicated or recreated. For you its as much (if not more so) about the “when” as well as a challenge.
I don’t really care about the “exclusivity” about the thousands of mogs/mounts in the game that of which I typically only use 1 or 2 at any given time anyways.