Relics coming to an end?

[Ophie-Mio]

However, it's factually untrue and misleading to tell people that "alexandrite isn't so bad" because you saved it up for an alt relic using a former main relic that you made months ago.

But getting alexandrite ISN'T so bad. Animus is easier to get than ever and all it requires is time. But even if you don't get that quest, there's still hunts and maps. There are three different ways to get alexandrite.

First-time relic pathers who stick to their main won't have the option to gear their first job as quickly as you geared your second or third. Few relic pathers would even imagine switching main relics once they got past the extremely expensive animus step.

I'm sorry but this isn't true. All my friends and FC members have had easier times gearing up their second and third jobs way quicker than their first. Even if their main is still their main. I have an FC member who has FIVE animuses and one Novus all gotten before 2.4 and they have never changed main jobs. It was just content to do.
And I don't think it's true about switching either. Sometimes people just don't like the job anymore. Hell, I main SCH and got the Novus for WHM. I wanted SCH to be easy so I chose to endgame grind for its weapon.

Newbies didn't have months to save up resources from "When atma was new and hard". Newbies don't have a full kit of roulettes unlocked for months.

I was very fortunate then. I had a friend who told me to save up alexandrite when I got an animus that I didn't intend to do anything with. I got my myth tomes from grinding out dungeons that I unlocked as I went through story mode and ilevel grind. In comparison to others, my relic was a slow grind. To me, these new players will have to get these roulette unlocked too if they wanna do anything in this game. All of this stuff is usually just done concurrently to how you play.

...spending another week sitting in queue waiting for their dungeons to pop so they can unlock their HM roulette and are scraping together sol to inflate their ilvl just to participate in anything. Being new in 2.2 isn't anything like being new in 2.4 - the amount of content bloat to catch up on is absurd.

To me, you're playing an MMO. MMO's are notoriously designed to eat your time. Grinds are just factually a part of any MMO. To a new player, it's all exciting and new content, not old and boring.