Question for the people who don't dislike the 2nd relic step

[Winterfang]

What I did say is that mindlessly grinding old content to obtain an inferior weapon is a complete and utter waste of the limited time I have to play the game.

Relic weapons will end being the best thing to have at the end of the expansion and the game already caters to that ideology. Pop on over to the nearby Marketboard where players can find inferior Weapons AND gear that is still acceptable for use in current content easy peasy without wasting any time at all.

I'm personally hoping that they return to a Eureka style of obtaining Relics. Give alternatives to some of the steps like in ShB Relics, and not only will people do the least resistant path that'll also allow some cheesing methods here and there on top of it, but even then people will still complain about it at the expense of content longevity.

[Gemina]

Relic weapons will end being the best thing to have at the end of the expansion and the game already caters to that ideology.

Again, this thread pertains to the second step. I could not care less about where the weapon ends up because we're not there yet. This argument has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the current topic.

Pop on over to the nearby Marketboard where players can find inferior Weapons AND gear that is still acceptable for use in current content easy peasy without wasting any time at all.

Now you're understanding where I am coming from.

[TomsYoungerBro]

This argument has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the current topic.

But it does...Not sure why you can't wrap your head around it. A relic's value is not just from the step you acquire it from, but also from every step preceding it. For example, The current relic IS NOT worth 1500 astronomy tomes. It is worth 3000. Why? Because you have to spend 1500 tomes to get the first step, then another 1500 tomes to do the second step. Therefore, every step of the relic has an impact in value of the final step....Which is BiS.

So you are not grinding for an inferior weapon. You are grinding out a step towards the eventual best weapon in the expansion.