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

[RiceisNice]

The state that the relic weapon was previously in just didn't justify it's existence other than a timesink, from a combination of both the time investment required (especially in regards to the atma step for the longest time, up until 2.4 anyway). It was bad as a "catch up" weapon if you tried to go beyond zenith because of how UATs dropped like hotcakes post 2.37, and how UATs were made available in ST on 2.3...same time as hunts giving bloodied logs that could be traded for sands. I dinged my first 50 on the release of 2.3 and got a UAT the next day from ST. That immediately voided any other reason other than "for the sake of it" to get up to novus. I was able to get a UAT and have 50~/750 allied seals to get a unweathered rosenburger before I even got my first atma.

Someone mentioned that yoshi delayed the relic steps in patch updates because not enough people had completed their steps to catch up...so he wanted to give them more time (though I see this as a fallacy considering the nature of atma).

And I personally don't have a problem with the tomestone weapon being a bit stronger...like people have mentioned it's gonna take a bit (maybe?) for someone to get to T11 to have it dropped. Though once we hit the next update where they let CT3 or hunts or whatever drop the tomestones and the upgrade catalyst effortlessly (a repeat of 2.3 pretty much)...well now we're running into problems again with the power difference:time commitment

Really, I feel like the relic questline shouldn't be just for the glamour. And as for the people that keep saying it's upgradable...aren't you upgrading your weapon anyway when you pick up a tomestone/dreadwyrm weapon that is stronger than your HA?