Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
I honestly can't remember the patch release dates anymore but there were something like 3 months and a few weeks between the first and second relic step. That is plenty of time to finish even casually since you only need to complete the step once.
The time until next patch is a poor basis of comparison. The relics become obsolete except as glam and the raw materials for the next step as soon as the next major patch drops. In order to be useful, they have to be available for a large fraction of the time between patches. So two weeks isn’t absolutely terrible, but it’s obnoxious; I and all the people I play with resented the process, and some of them just didn’t complete the quest because it was too much work. But the most significant indictment of first relic stage quests was that iirc SE themselves mentioned they’d listened to feedback on the first stage and made the second stage easier in response.