Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
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Right, that's sort of my point—I don't think it was really development time at all, I get the impression it was all tied into progression/weapon availability in various ways. They were reacting all over the place to try to curb the difficulty of Savage and things like that. They also mentioned wanting the first two relic steps to be sort of "catch up" steps for newer 60s, and while those two steps probably could have been in 3.1 proper as a result, it may have just been easier from a logistics standpoint to release the quest all in one chunk.

I'm by no means saying that they executed all this well—they blundered pretty badly, in my view (and seemingly in Yoshi's). But I think they just had misguided reasons that lead them to push it back to 3.15 (and I think your hunch that Thordan was originally meant to be i200 is probably correct), rather than their not really being done.