Given the length of the post I wanted to call this section out again as it is both new as of 0.36 but also critical to how the game functions going forward. Clearly over time, in my view based on these numbers, there will be sufficient relics to to do up to Epic Evolutions, especially given the reduction to materials required for lower Evolves.
What about all the other materials though? Shard economy is still very bad. Shards need to be downgradeable to allow for more gear level increases since shards essentially can’t be targetted. Don’t make players go farm a level 20 dungeon for hours desperately hunting for lesser shards; it’s dumb (and it’s not even reliable!). Also, the real limitation right now going forward is going to be Epic Runes/Scrolls. These are still far too rare; a corollary to the shard situation. Again, make Runes/Scrolls downgradable. A Level 50 chest is primarily populated with Mythic Runes/Scrolls Drops and a Tier VI Dungeon Event is still giving Uncommon/Rare Runes/Scrolls. There are too many of these type and virtually no Epic Runes/Scrolls to be reliably found! This bottleneck where players must get gear evolved to Epic to be able to do this absurdly hard newly-tweaked “difficulty” but then making the means to acquire the gear near impossible (even if you spent a ton of money!) is clearly a sign that the Evolution framework is still dysfunctional.