Supported.
+10pvm 1 pvp on elf, 6pvp 2 pvm on bk.
At this point they are just taking up inventory space and I have had to completely rebuild characters to farm the other artifact group on them, making it impossible to participate in pvp for me on bk as I'm forced to stay 6000 hp to farm pve artifacts reliably while losing the ability to compete in pve at the highest level on elf - the worst of both worlds.
With elf I'm unable to utilize any of my pve artifacts until I get a fenrir as elfs main ranged dps ability - triple shot - is speedbugged without a fenrir and to deal damage with multishot you must be point blank to your opponent, making it impossible to beat most classes in CC or arena. Even with a fenrir I'm only able to farm them in arena unless I take 10 people with me who will carry me and hand me the win.
Being forced to use a hammer for watering plants and a watering can for hammering nails is a gameplay loop most people wouldn't voluntarily participate in. Putting best in slot items behind it isn't a good decision from a game design perspective imo.
You could argue nobody is forcing you to farm those pve artifacts but with the game being centered around competetive group pvp which is highly gear dependent, you're essentially forcing most pvp characters to stop playing the game completely and just log on once per day for their gaion runs or quit as they now can't win until they spend 2 months stuck at 2000 vitality competing for gaion speedruns - one of the most unenjoyable and rng based events this game has to offer.
Now I could also just farm world bosses for 12 months and hope for good rng, but that also means I only get to finally start playing the game in 2025...
If that's the final verdict and the direction oldsquad wants to head in I'm sure there are many people who will spend a couple months farming gaion on their BKs and not doing anything else but personally I'm very tempted to switch to one of the countless pc games out there that are designed around actually having fun.
Tldr: antifun mechanic that makes the game feel more like a chore than it already is. I understand wanting player retention and giving the mostly maxed out playerbase more things to grind towards but I feel like the artifact update completely missed the mark.