Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana View Post
Not true. The base relic in 2.0 required a pittance of tomes and zero RNG. It could be completed as soon as you could kill Titan. Getting the +1 (Zenith) required 3 weeks of tomes, but that's barely even a grind and certainly nothing on the scale that we get now.
You mean the nerfed down base relic quests. Look at the original relic questlines from 1.x to see the similarities to the current relic grinds.