5k for a RANDOM relic for your class I dropped about 30k shards trying to get one good life relic I damn near punched my monitor. Finally got one in LFR off something but the 5k one is something you can't use to fill out alts in any decent time.
That is why when I saw the blue specifc types are going to be available in argus I was thankful. That really fixes the one major hurdle in leveling alts currently which is the pain in the ass of getting specific relics to fill all three slots of a reasonable ilevel.
I have my loot spec locked to Balance, since I flip to Guardian often, and I have literally never seen anything besides Life and Arcane relics.