6 Month is it way to long to discourage people. It should be lowered to over a month only. i've recently make a new char to play with friends and start over, i've start Geomancer, probably gonna main it, it take a month or two to really be capped everywhere (missions, quest, job points, merit, etc...) but for this, 6 month is too long, i dont know where i'll be in that time, i find it very discouraging to start a weapon (that is very important).

Back in the time, owning a relic were something not mandatory... for anything.
Nowaday, if you dont own an relic/mythic/empy/Ergon/Aeonic, you're out of most content.

I'm working hard on enhancing actually my Geomancer to get some good stuff, so i'm delaying the ranking up... it would make not 6 but 7 month. Half a year for a Relic, is a bit to much... (nowaday).