I"m just returning after a few years off from the game and am loving the changes. I'm still trying to get started but was curious about getting a relic or upgrading my Empyrean weapons. Everything I've found on the forms says that it isn't worth it anymore to do them, but those were posts back a year or two. So are they now actually worth the grind? It seems that the weapon I picked up with my new Sparks is still more powerful than an upgraded weapon.