Quote Originally Posted by DinahDemiurge View Post
What about it? I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the relevant step is always just 2-3 days to get the new ilvl for it. You're completely missing my point aren't you?
And I think you're missing THE point. A relic starting from scratch takes ages. And, from release, it takes ages to get an inferior weapon to something you can get from a primal or tomes. Only in the last patches of the expansion does it finally catch up to the best gear. Meanwhile, alex, from release, has been i275.

So not only do you have to perform every step in the long grind to get a relic, but you have to wait an entire expansion for it to be as good as (or better than) the raid weapon you could have gotten 1 month in and then in a few months time, everything from that expansion is obsolete.