Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
Again, this time-gating only serves a purpose if trying to prevent people from feeling like they "Have" to grind content they dislike to keep up with other people working on the Relic.
You'd need to gate every step, including light grinds, in order to eliminate this problem. As long as there are multiple ways to progress, there will be a "most efficient" way to do it that people will find as soon as they can.

They could gate everything, but I'd rather they didn't. Gear progression is already gated by time. I'm fine with the relic being gated only by when each new progression step is released. It gives the players with more time to spend in the game something to work at when they've hit the other time gates.