Heavensward relic steps up to patch 3.3 in their current form:

- FATE farming
- 10 dungeons
- Turn in Unidentified items obtained in multiple ways (company seals, crafting, raids, tribal quests, tomes, hunt seals)
- Poetics
- Crystal sand+Umbrite (multiple ways+poetics), you get to choose the stats in your weapon

EW relic in 6.35:

-1500 tomestones
-1500 tomestones again

I will not even list all the parts of the ARR weapon but by patch 2.38 there were the base weapon quest (10 stages!), Zenith, Atma, Animus, Novus and Nexus parts. I'm considering just doing a repeat of a 10-year-old relic quest in place of this garbage we got.