This post is more of me venting my frustration with this part of the relic, "A New path of resistance", this part is single-handedly making me annoyed and bored with the game to a point of me considering dropping making more relics, doing 15 DR with random is literally rolling dice to see if you will get at least a couple of players with essences or players that aren't afk at all, which is normally never the case, making something that could very well take 20 minutes to finish, take well over 45+ minutes, had a run that took almost a full hour.
Palace of the Dead isn't much better either, I tried a couple of run in there, 51-190 and 51-100, after around 6 hours or so, only got 4 artifacts after all of that, I normally enjoy running PotD but knowing that I will have to WASTE my time with a RNG drop until I got to 150 just sours the whole experience and makes me want to not do that kind of content.
Either NERF the amount needed to progress to like 5 or 10 or increase the amount you get from a single DR run from 1 to 3 and in PotD make the drop-rate from floors 51-100 be 50% and 101-200 be 100%, that's how I would fix it.
This isn't a Free-to-Play game, this is the first time since I started playing this game that I felt that my time as a player was not respected, I have faith that SE will fix this soon. Thank you.