I am quite happy with how they handeled the new relic weapon. The story of the new relic quest was pretty well done and I loved the instance content.

1000 poetics might not seem much to players that play regularly or more than an hour a week. But to me even those poetics are quite a grind. Sure, they could have added one or two more steps of "Oh no, we need more items to craft the relic! Go and collect more tomes/items from x dungeon!"... but I am pretty sure even than people would complain. I am glad, however, that we did not get another Eureka (yet). Let's see what the future brings. This was after all only the first step of the relic weapon.