30 days almost up and I still can't enter endgame due to droprate

[texhnolyze]

Entirely your problem. Ifrit weapon is not required to progress the relic weapon quest, you have no one to blame for your lost time but yourself.

this is true

OP, your iLv55 GC weapon is enough to progress your relic, up until garuda at least
as for Titan, yes you'll need higher level weapon, especially for DPS

or, you could just farm gil and buy iLv 70 giantsgall weapon from the market
in a week, you can earn more than 1 million farming CM