Relics with star level

"Dmitry_M81;c-1981145" wrote:
Relics is nothing more than g14, though players were promised something new but who really believes CG keeping their word...

Relics are much easier to obtain than and entire tier worth of gear. Signal data is farmed in cantina nodes, so isn't limited to 5 attempts per day. As such it isn't in "competition" with other farms (hard nodes, "finishers", kryos, etc.) There is at least one "lesser" gear requirement at each tier past 4, for players who are in active guilds.

And while it is technically another "progression grind" like gear, it doesn't increase speed - instead focusing on other stats which, in effect, balances speed in some ways.

I do think keeping relics at g13 makes sense though. Primarily because most "end-game" players already have finished farming most of the useful characters from cantina. Newer players would be forced to choose - and that could lead to some very poorly developed rosters that are very top-heavy, but very much useless outside of arena.