Heavensward Relic weapons

[Xaphire]

But surely they understand that even the first steps takes a lot of time. Killing 900 monsters, doing 27 dungeons, 27 leves and 27 fates takes a lot of time and commitment. I don't want to feel like it has been time wasted.

Getting to Animus is very little work in the grand scheme of things. The steps to get to Novus, Nexus, then upgrade it, and then get to Zeta are probably 3/4ths of the work. If having a relic offers any reward in Heavensward (which I imagine will be pretty minor if they do add anything) you will have to complete the quest series which means owning a zeta.