My issue with the tome solution, isn't that it doesn't work, or that I do not have choice. When you take the tome solution, yes I have the physical choice to do as I please to grind, my issue is the community at large. The community will always dictate what is easiest and only do that when you have the *choice* to gain tomes from anything, conversely, if you make the solution to gaining your relic require the bare minimum, it doesn't matter what you do.

I want the progression to getting my relic to be fun and meaningful content, solo or with the community, I want it to be something memorable. But if we go the tome route, theres no way to keep the community at least on NA, from gravitating to the easiest farmable thing and that being the only way, or the means of me getting my weapon being a braindead non-grind for the sake of appealing to the lowest common denominator.

My personal Solution is creating involved zone or world based content, similar to Zadnor and Bozja and Eureka, and having this Relic Step start at least at the X.1 of each patch, then at the X.X.5 of each patch. they introduce the alternative and it's just 1500 tomes, and requires no work for those who do not want to grind. I feel it's fairest approach and makes it so that gaining the relic later if you were not around for the Zone/instance grind is still easy.