I really like a lot of these ideas that people have thrown around, especially food and a proof of heroics like item, but by far my favorite idea is mystic clovers. Even if they cost a lot of relics and were timegated to daily pristines it would finally put a reliable source in PvE. Clovers are currently guaranteed from reward tracks in PvP and WvW, but aren’t guaranteed from any source exclusive to PvE. The best part about clovers is that they minimally impact the economy. Clovers can not be traded, most of the items they craft into are account bound and gen 1 legendary prices fluctuate more with flavor of the month and their other components, and the items used to craft clovers would still be valuable for their many other uses.
Even if clovers don’t work out to be the best solution, I think it’s valuable to remember why this issue was brought up in the first place, the solution must be something that players want to buy again and again. If items like unique skins are introduced for people to spend relics on, there is no incentive to repeatedly buy them and after people spend the relics on that then now what do they get?
