Again, Relic Nexus will have barely no use...

[Kallera]

Most likely by the time 3.0 comes out Relics will be i135 and BiS again, we just have to wait for the quests to drop. Hell, if the "Ultimate weapon" comment of Yoshi-P's is taken as a lot do the Relic could be i140.

As others have said though, Nexus will be BiS for the vast majority of the game's population for a while given Final Coil's difficulty.

What isn't mentioned is whag is different from said ultimate weapon that we are not seeing in these stages. Will it too, only be useful for a few months before it gets tossed away for good with some flavor of the week token weapon surpassing it? Is such an end goal worthy of the time investment put into it?

[Prototype909]

What isn't mentioned is whag is different from said ultimate weapon that we are not seeing in these stages. Will it too, only be useful for a few months before it gets tossed away for good?

Welcome to vertical progression, nothing stays best forever, especially when it doesn't even involve doing anything difficult aside from logging on everyday.