Soo... apparently Diadem has i280 weapons with higher WD than alexandrian/anima lux

[Reynhart]

What on earth possessed them to do the same stupid thing that no one liked....

Let's be real, if Diadem rewards were weaker than existing ones, no one would do it.

C) Your analogy was hilariously bad because the difference is so few people would have bothered with relic at all if they'd been told 'don't worry, by the time it's actually BiS it wont be BiS'.

No, actually, her analogy is pretty good. It's exactly like saying you wouldn't bother saving money little by little if we tell you than you can be richer by winning the lottery.

Yeah, in a 2 patch cycle! Not in the hotfixes, and second halves of patches.

Well, you see raiders crying every odd patch with weekly upgrade item from 24-man raid

on a different note, not sure if anyone said this but as a wild guess this might be a prewiew of how the relics will drop in SB

I hope relics won't simply "drop" in Eureka, but will still use upgrade stages.

This 280 thing is really stupid especially since it's coming from basic content.

No, it's not. In MMO, every reward only depends on "time". Either time to practice a difficult content or time to clear an easier content. The random part in Diadem means that most people would go faster by learning and clearing A12S than by being favored by the RNG in Diadem. i280 is not that high compared ti i275, and is only a slight incentive to gather the whole playerbase in Diadem.