Relics coming to an end?

[Ophie-Mio]

They made the Relic quest a succession of increasingly ridiculous grinds. If they don't reset it and start over in Heavensward, new players will literally never be able to catch up.

This is the silliest misconception of all time.
I started this game when Novus older content. I leveled and caught up and am working on Nexus now. There are so many other players out there who catch up. This disgusting nonsense of new players not catching up is ridiculous. There are many different ways to prepare for your grind such as doing the expert roulette daily for Alexandrite. By the time I had my animus, I just had to meld the Novus to get it since I had collected the alexandrite.

Everything else is just a perfectly manageable grind. People already have Yoshimitsu Animus/Novus/Nexus after all.

Exactly. So many people out there think that it's impossible just because they hear stories of how it was for the original people going through it. It's not hard anymore nor such a crazy grindfest. Some people can actually catch up regardless of nerfs.
News flash: It's called effort.

If they make it so that these weapons don't have anything at all to do with relic 3.0 weapons, I'm not bothering. What a way to reward my grind and efforts to catch up to the other players who had them. Those relics will just be obsolete. Just invest in whatever time it takes to get the endgame drops since that's where SE is putting their money.