We have midcore content... just too little too late.

[ForteNightshade]

That's not what I'm saying, so of course you don't understand.

You're saying that people rush content which is the actual reason they have nothing to do. I'm saying the content doesn't last long enough unless you purposely take forever to do it. What's else is there to understand here?

It can't go in earlier because the main MSQ story takes up a lot of time and has to come first.

The current relic step is literally use Astronomy tomes and buy them. It doesn't take even the slightest amount of time to program that. Godbert has almost no real purpose whatsoever and they didn't need to tie the relic to Hildibrand for this initial step. Both ARR and HW had the relic beginning much earlier, which is the formula they've outright said they're basing EW's relic on.

It's ridiculous that the only grind oriented content releases over a year into the expansion's life cycle.