Are relic weapons ever going to be useful?

[MasamuneBranford]

getting a nexus isnt a big effort

relic quest + relic zenith -> less then 1 day
atma quest -> takes average 2 full days/1 weekend
animus quest -> thx to hunt ~1 week
novus -> thx to hunt ~2 weeks for your first novus and like 5 min for your 2nd (since you can pre gather the alexandrite)
nexus -> depending on how much you are willed to farm per day: 2 days until 1 week

all in all the questline should take ~1 month if you start at zero and when you spend your most time with it

1 week for animus would be pretty insane. I've tried - but you're really not going to kill the 100 mobs in less than 2 hours (the max. 3 spawn mobs will see to that). Leves will take 30 minutes. The fates are going to take 4 hours on average to do all 3. Dungeons, 2 to 3 hours on average. 8 and a half hours per book (it's hard and unrealistic to expect less). You're looking at 77 hours for the 9 books not counting the farm time. One week seems obsessive.