Ok...let me level with you here SE...

[Kristal]

If it was a reasonable amount of kills that several relic holders could group together to do, that would at least be somewhat plausible. I could see myself helping with that once a week or once a month for x amount of times. Hopefully all the feedback will result in something more realistic for the relic holders.

The problem with kills is that it would be very unbalanced. PLD could equip Excalibur and Aegis, while MNK can only equip Spharai. And don't think you can come RDM/NIN (Excal+Mandau) either, because ADL doesn't strike me as a NM you want to PUG...
Oh, and don't forget you need to be alive for kills to count...

Throughout the whinestorm that has broken out, some people actually did suggest a few good options. For example, add Umbral Marrow as a type of 100 currency, so you have a very small chance to see it drop from NMs in Xarcabard, with DL always dropping 1, and ADL dropping several (pouch with 4~12). This puts relic 99 stage 1 at the difficulty of first two stages of the 75 relic (~20 [100]s), and relic 99 stage 2 at the difficulty of 7 completed 75 relics (7x~150 [100]s).

Possibly add the requirement that at least one ADL has to be killed for stage 1 trial.