Make relics have the same iLVL as the Raid weapons and released at the same time

[Nezerius]

You can get your eureka weapon in a few days if you're crazy enough.

Apparently, the players going into Pagos on release just weren't crazy enough, seeing as they didn't get their weapons "in a few days".

And as already said by Whiskey and Cassandra, gear is not very relevant for your numbers if you don't know your job's rotation and how to adapt to different encounters. I've seen ilvl 380+ players in expert roulettes being outdpsed by healers and tanks. Gear won't help those players.

This can go both ways. If gear is only relevant to a player's numbers once they know their rotation, then what's the big deal of non-raiding players spending more time overall to obtain gear that's very close to raid gear?
You'd always have the relevancy of numbers and knowledge to set the raiders apart from the rest, after all!