Relic Question: Why did it take so long to release?

[Sunako]

Soo.... they couldn't have released the ilvl 170 or 200 steps way back why?

Even ilvl 200 weapon would give you advantage back in day progress because you would save 990 eso from it. 170 step seems like pretty useless since there was already 190 weapons in game once hw released. The reason most likely is that because they skipped zenith part from this expansion and they wanted content be done without relics. first 2 parts works like atma weapon back in days. Atma itself did not really help anything before it was animus. Zenith lvl 90 relic was pretty big advanage back in days in first coil, maybe they did not wanted that be the case in current content.