I'm hoping that the idea with Empy weapons being so powereful was to make people do them and that now that abyssea is over and people have beeing working on empy weapons they will now slowly start boosting relics more to put them back at the top again. As an MMO you want to constantly keep players working on things and putting relics back at the top makes mroe sense than keeping empy weapons which are very east to get at the top.