2 + years in. still no relics

Serious question, what makes you say you can’t earn them?
All the materials required are available to be farmed, either from a node directly or buy using various currencies to buy them from stores, plus Various event rewards.
Pick a squad to relic out, focus on them until you get there, then move on to the next.

I get them all the time. I've been playing longer, but I get them pretty quickly when I try. Shard shop currency to get 50 of everything, then whatever I get from various raids. It's all farmable, too.

Ice been working on Darth Vader since I started two years ago but I'm only at gear 12. It's impossible to get past gear 12 probably for most characters. I play about 3 times a day but can't get enough to get past 12. So my thinking you have to buy to gear then buy relics.

No, you don't have to buy them. I started a FTP account about a year ago, and I can tell you, you can get Relics with out buy them if you are on a guild that is active, and you already 3 star all LS, DS, Cantina and Fleet battles. Everything you need is either farmable via nodes or using currency (looking at you Droid Callers).

I assume you don't get to farm the pieces or you don't have a good guild to earn good rewards from TB's and raids

+2 Years F2P player here too and I own 26 relic toons ATM

switch your guild to earn what you want.
sry to say that but you should have at least 2 full teams reliced between R3-R7.
as a f2p you can get everything you need for relics.

maybe post your profile? so we can see what we are talking about

Im f2p as well, a little under 2 years. I have 9 relics, including Vader at r7. It's quite doable, especially with a good guild.

Are you unable to get the required gear to get to gear 13 or do you just not know where/how to get it? Every piece of gear can be acquired for free.

If you’re unable... time to find a better guild.

If you don’t know where the gear pieces are, click the “find” button on the gear window.

Otherwise, I’m not sure what else there is for you to do, or what you’re missing that you can’t seem to get.

Show us your account. There is something you’re not telling us... if you actually have actively been playing for 2+ years you would have naturally ran into the relic mats and gear through campaigns and raids.. I think you may be trolling

How do you post profile?