Quote Originally Posted by Emitans View Post
"No expansion has launched with a relic since ARR" Maybe they should. "Field op always comes halfway through the expansion." Maybe that's an insane decision and always has been? Yoshi P stood in front of a giant image listing all the content coming to the game in Dawntrail and it's been six months since launch and the only piece of it that released is an Ultimate, content designed for the top ~5% of players. Any other MMO would be raked over the coals for that. Imagine if WoW had talked about how important Delves are and how they're a huge part of the game alongside raids and dungeons, and then announced The War Within wouldn't get any until a year after launch. You know exactly how that would be received.
People have short memories. Anima relics started with 3.15, so projected onto Dawntrail that would be happening right where Chaotic-Trial-Boss-Inspired-From-Alliance-Raids will release in a couple of weeks. ARR Zodiac weapons released in Vanilla.

Relics only started happening later when they decided to tie them up with exploration content (which prior to SB was Diadem, unrelated to relics, and Diadem still happened in 3.1 anyway).