The relic weapon quest is OBSCENELY boring...

[Krr]

And again, I've done two relics now, one before any nerf and one after and I find it to be perfectly fine with exception of the animus books, but if books are nerfed, cost needs to go up again.

You uh, you realize that Animus books got more expensive in 2.4, and actually only reached equality with 2.3 Animus books when 2.5 inflated Sol again right? 1 myth = 0.33 of 1 sol according to the game's conversion rate, but books were only cut to 50% of original price. In fact, Animus books are pretty much the least-nerfed step in the Relic quest (and it kind of shows with how many players I've met that do Atma in a couple days fine fine, do a budget Novus in a week or two fine after, but deadwall on Animus for months, hah...)

[desufin]

You uh, you realize that Animus books got more expensive in 2.4, and actually only reached equality with 2.3 Animus books when 2.5 inflated Sol again right? 1 myth = 0.33 of 1 sol according to the game's conversion rate, but books were only cut to 50% of original price. In fact, Animus books are pretty much the least-nerfed step in the Relic quest (and it kind of shows with how many players I've met that do Atma in a couple days fine fine, do a budget Novus in a week or two fine after, but deadwall on Animus for months, hah...)

Wrong. Books used to cost 1500 mythology. When mythology was removed they were changed to 500 soldiery. At the time of the change the books were slightly harder to get currency for with soldiery than they were with mythology in the patch before it (but not by a lot, especially not if you still had people to get 100 soldiery bonus from in which case it was MUCH easier already). With the last patch everything gives soldiery like candy, CT, ST and WoD give 100 for each full clear, either of the expert dungeons give 100 and then you have the roulette bonuses. And price is still at 500. Soldiery is -really- easy to get right now and 500 is a drop in the ocean of what you can get in a single day with just a tiny bit of effort.

[Krr]

Wrong. Books used to cost 1500 mythology. When mythology was removed they were changed to 500 soldiery.

Right, let me correct that. Books were reduced by 1/3 and Myth converted to sol at a rate of 1/4. Soldiery was still incredibly scarce that patch and you had to go out of your way to get more of it instead of stacking it with other activities. A completely random and unreliable 'newbie bonus' did not compensate unless you were very lucky. You had to do five roulettes a day instead of one and some light hunting to keep up. The numbers speak for themselves; books got harder to buy in 2.4 because no matter which way you cut it, sol/hour did not come anywhere close to 1/3 the myth/hour you could get in 2.3. Hunts are mostly responsible for this, though.

2.5 saw the only 'real' nerf to the cost of an Animus book. But, they still take a minimum of 5-8 hours to complete each (not accounting for DPS queues in low level dungeons,) so honestly, a nerf to cost was a token gesture to begin with...though honestly, I'd rather farm 3x as much Sol then spend 8 hours doing old level synced shit I don't care about and sitting AFK outside of rare fates so I can get to the actually interesting part of the Relic quest.

[Felis]

You uh, you realize that Animus books got more expensive in 2.4, and actually only reached equality with 2.3 Animus books when 2.5 inflated Sol again right? 1 myth = 0.33 of 1 sol according to the game's conversion rate, but books were only cut to 50% of original price.

Ignore the convention rate, forget the convention rate.
All what is important was how fast someone can earn 500 soldiery during 2.4 versus 1500 myths during 2.3