The New Funnel

I'd second this.  It's a slog getting them and affects mid gamers who are less than 2 year old accounts with the current LSB / LST cadence having pushed the number of R5 toons up

Since I've never gotten a character past 8 I haven't really had much trouble with this issue, my issue surrounding relics is based on the cantina refill speed. Signal data is so hard to get as it take what seems like more than a day to refill the cantina Energy completely.

I'm certain it's intentional. They wouldn't relieve the old bottlenecks to the extent they have with the anniversary updates without coming up with a new one. It can't just be at relic 10; they need f2p to feel the crunch lower down. With relic delta and the datacron changes increasing the need for relic 6 and up, I don't see this being addressed until at least relic 12 or 13 is out, at which point they will have invented something else.

vodfdphpk02z wrote:

Since I've never gotten a character past 8 I haven't really had much trouble with this issue

I think it's more a mid-late game and the lower end of late game (i.e. very high K3 to low K1) players.  We've spent years taking teams and characters to Relic 5, then seeing where we go from there.

However, we're now being encouraged (forced) to take our characters to higher relics than this.  It looks like CG are unhappy with players parking teams and relic 3, 5 & 7.; it's been affecting their wallet. They've introduced Relic Delta, introduced Relic 10 (the word on the street it's not stopping there) and the biggest one, without warning they've gone backwards on datacrons and increased the level 6 to relic 4 and the level 9 to relic 6.  This is a biggy as us lower late gamers often parked teams at relic 3 and relic 5.

So, we (and it is a large percentage of players) are now in the situation where we need to increase our relic 5s to relic 6.  We then, on the whole, miss the worst of Relic Delta and can use datacrons to their full potential.  CG, on their part said (I'm paraphrasing here)  "Don't worry bro, we've like....gotcha back.  We're make it easier to increase relics.  It's all good bro".

Now yes they made it 'slightly' easier by moving Electrium Conductors to Mk 2 currency instead of Mk 3.  However, the big issue is that they still work like later relic salvage works.  

The first 2 pieces (Carbonite 'whatsits' and Bronzium 'thingy-me-jibs')  can be salvaged using cheap blue and green gear.   The next two 'middling' pieces (Chromium 'doobies' and Aurodium 'bobbly-bobs') we save very specific gear that has a great conversion rate.   The issue with Electrium Conductors is that for salvage, they're still acting like 'late game' relic materials.  You have to scrap gold salvage that you use for taking your boys and girls from gear 12 to gear 13; that's a big difference.

If grey is the new black. And R6 is the new R5, salvaging needs to use 'mid-relic' materials to match this new 'mid relic' status.  Making the materials easier to obtain would also work.

It's "Aurodium Blue-Footed Bobbie-Bobs"  I can see where the confusion came in.  They are easily mistaken for the extinct "Elctroplated Dodo"  and the "Blue Milk Pigeon Toed Walrus".