Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
Which caused quite a bit of problem as far as the gearing progression of weapons was concerned, especially in consideration of the delayed relic quest and thordan.
We really need to stop being so forgiving over bad implementation. This is basically admitting that their relics suck, and stretching out their usefulness by making it take longer to get the 'regular' weapons rather than provide any kind of a real solution to the problem. Well, except for the fact that for the average player, getting the relic would still take longer than 7 weeks.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the reason no one cares about relics is because they're the same as the vanilla weapons, just reskinned. The people who work towards them want something shiny to glamor onto their next 'BiS' weapon and don't really care or even look at the stats on the thing. There's a lot of wasted potential there, and everybody knows it by now.

People try to justify it by saying "well, you shouldn't be able to get the best weapon in a few weeks", yet time and again that's proven wrong because you CAN get the best weapon in a few weeks without aiming for the relic. Honestly, the new relics aren't even that nice to look at in my opinion; the old ones at least looked special.

So we're stuck in this weird limbo where SE doesn't want to make items with special statistics, and players are getting bored of the old ones. Maybe when we hit item level 999 they'll finally reconsider their stance and we'll have items which have some sideways movement instead of the constant upwards grind.