Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Easier ? No, because it will probably require raid items to be at the same ilvl.
Shorter ? It depends on how fast you clear the raid.

But if you clear it, then you don't care about the tome weapon, since you'll have access to the raid weapon.
Yes, it'll be easier because if it follows the current way you only need to clear normal mode a few times for an unaugmented tome weapon. Whatever relic upgrade comes in 4.0 won't be available until around the time you can get a tome weapon, and will require a lot more grinding than something like 7 NM clears over 7 weeks. The relic would be the same ilvl as the tome weapon until around the time we get new primal weapons or maybe the weapon upgrade from the new 24 man in 4.1.