I wouldn't bother with the 60 relic from a gearing perspective.

There is a shire weapon (and an augmented version as well). If you've got no problem farming poetics, get that. Hunts are a good way to get poetics and you can even use centurio gear for whatever you're missing. I'd recommend joining a hunt Linkshell if you haven't already.

I wore my augmented ironworks gear until I could get (augmented) shire, which I then wore all the way up until 70 for verity/creation, unless a dungeon happened to give an upgrade.
The game does throw gear at you as you level ,but you can just sell those and stay on the augmented gear. Never had trouble with it.