Are relic weapons ever going to be useful?

[Goldhawk]

My Nexus is useful right now. If you mean the quest being fun, engaging and well thought out with multiple unique steps with unique challenges created specifically for it with minimal grinding and you actually get to learn the story of your weapon and each step changes your weapon's look (yes I know the "next step" will have that, please look forward to it™), instead of simply adding some cheap glow that takes 5 seconds to create to mask the rehashed model and calling it a day, then yeah, that I have no hope for.

Well, I was unaware that another form of the weapon existed. But to be fair, there's what 6 steps now? Sure you can place whatever stats you would like on it during novus. But take ALL of the weeks/months you spent upgrading this weapon and throw it all away because there's better ways of obtaining similar weapons. I was thinking of putting crit/spellspeed on my novus and when it's all said and done weeks from now and some hundreds and thousands of gil I'll have obtained a weapon I could have just raided for.

THAT doesn't seem worth it at all.

[Roris]

Well, I was unaware that another form of the weapon existed. But to be fair, there's what 6 steps now? Sure you can place whatever stats you would like on it during novus. But take ALL of the weeks/months you spent upgrading this weapon and throw it all away because there's better ways of obtaining similar weapons. I was thinking of putting crit/spellspeed on my novus and when it's all said and done weeks from now and some hundreds and thousands of gil I'll have obtained a weapon I could have just raided for.

THAT doesn't seem worth it at all.

Well Nexus is a good weapon in the end and after all the work, money and tedium you'd rightfully expect it to be worth it and it kinda is. Well, at least until 2.4 when Shiva weapons will most likely be i115 throwing all the effort into the trash, until you complete the next step of the tedious carrot and stick relic quest which I'm sure will be as fun and engaging as the past ones.

The overall experience itself from Atma all the way to Nexus was pretty much the most mind numbing, leas engaging and worst experience I've had in this game, but it's not like there was anything else to do in this game so I had to complete it anyway.

getting a nexus isnt a big effort

If you start now sure, especially with the coming nerfs whatever they are, but it was obviously longer as they were being released unless you were a no lifer. I just finished Nexus a week ago so it was about 6 months since Atma was introduced to get an i115 weapon when it's still faster to find good players and just learn and beat T9, I know easier said than done. At least when the wonderfully designed Atma quest was the brand new thing the incentive was higher because the other only way to get an i100 weapon was to either grind 1% RNG Leviathan mirrors or save up soldiery for it which could have rather be spent on gear, then when i110 Novus came out sands from ST and hunts still weren't a thing.