Yoship mentioned in one of his recent interviews after JP fanfest they are changing the relic quest in 4.0. I for one don't put a lot of stock in that, because he had previously made a comment they don't want to gate a relic behind "hard" fights again like in ARR. Which a lot of people actually liked.

Really should put a little more stock into people playing their job for their weapon beyond mindless leveling dungeons or light grind. Even if they added something like paying your relic job through the easier raids like tower series and Alexander Normal that would be a boost to those queues which are already in a pretty bad situation.