I appear to have already missed the boat on bozja

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Woah, hold up. They PROMISED we wouldn't have to do Eureka 2: Electric Boogaloo to get our relics. Do you know this for a fact, or are you just assuming?

I guess if it turns out to be true, I'll just make an angry forum post, stick all seventeen i500 relics on a retainer, and pretend there aren't any Shadowbringers relics after all. Just like there weren't any in Stormblood.

"Your resistance weapon can be upgrade in 5.45, but you need to finish the story including Delubrum Reginae normal"
2 upgrade steps and you can customize the substats during the 2nd upgrade" ~ Yoshi-P, From the previous liveletter before 5.4. Delubrum Reginae is the special 24 man coming in 5.45 for Bozja.

The quote he mentioned about not being forced due to do Bozja to upgrade your weapon was taken out of context.

You didn't have to do Bozja to get the items for the current upgrade step, not that you could complete the relic without ever doing the Save the Queen storyline. With how intimately tied these relics are to the Save the Queen story, it was insanely telegraphed from the moment they were first implemented that completion of the Bozja story would be mandatory for them.

So yes, you'll have to pretend there isn't any SHB relics then. Not that Bozja is tedious to do, compared to Eureka (You can hit rank 10 within 3-5 evenings of casual play easily, I've done it on 3 characters now), especially once they fix Castrum.