Why?
They have effectively nerfed the hell out of all the perfected asylum weapons, making them the same as normal + a small stat bonus.
to quote the patch notes:
Arena Weapons have all been adjusted to follow the same system as trial gear with the Perfected system. Normal arenas will drop the normal version of the sets, while Veteran will drop the Perfected version of these weapons.
Except asylum still requires the hard mode? Why?
Before the hard core crowd get all snarky, I've for my +2 clear and weapons.