The Empyrean Relic is one of the strongest primary enchantment items in Fisch, and it is also one of the least forgiving to farm. Its catch chance is locked, which means every luck stat, luck rod, and luck totem you own does nothing for it. The only variable you control is how many times you reel a fish in.
Quick answer: Equip the rod with your fastest catch time (not your highest luck rod), fish continuously in Skycrest, and keep reeling — the Empyrean Relic rolls at a fixed 1 in 15,000 per catch that nothing can improve.
Why luck does not increase the Empyrean Relic catch rate
The Empyrean Relic sits in the Relic rarity tier, and its entry carries an explicit exclusion: this fish’s catch chance is not affected in any way by luck. The roll is a flat 1 in 15,000 on every successful catch, regardless of your gear, boosts, weather, time of day, season, or bait.
That single rule flips the usual farming logic. A high-luck setup wastes time here, because it does nothing to the odds while often slowing each catch down. What matters is throughput. A rod that finishes a catch in half the time effectively doubles your rolls per hour.
Note: the relic itself has a Progress Speed of -70% and a resilience of 35, so the catch minigame for the relic is slow and moderately difficult once it does hook. That is a one-time cost, not something you can farm around.
Where to fish for the Empyrean Relic
The Empyrean Relic is listed as a Skycrest fish, and it appears both in the main Skycrest waters and in the Skycrest — Abaia Hunt area. Because the roll is a fixed global chance rather than a location-weighted one, players have also pulled it while fishing in completely unrelated areas, including while farming clams.
Skycrest is still the sensible choice. You keep the relic in its listed pool, and any other Skycrest fish you catch along the way fills out your Bestiary instead of being pure filler. Open the main menu from the top-left button to fast travel there.
Skycrest runs its own celestial cycle, and events such as a Power Burst will fire while you fish, with the pillars resonating in the background. None of these events change the relic’s odds. Treat them as scenery and keep casting.
Fastest farming setup for the Empyrean Relic
Empyrean Relic stats and value
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Relic (catch chance not affected by luck) |
| Catch chance | 1 in 15,000 (fixed) |
| Location | Skycrest, Skycrest — Abaia Hunt |
| Source | Fishing Rod |
| Resilience | 35 (Moderate) |
| Progress Speed | -70% |
| Passive Block | Level 1 |
| Preferences | No weather, time, season, or bait requirement |
| XP | 8,500 |
| Base weight | 90kg |
| Base value | 25,000 C$ |
| Value per kg | 277.78 C$ |
| Added in | Version 2.0 |
Size brackets follow the standard weight split, so a Giant Empyrean Relic needs to break 179.1kg.
| Size | Weight |
|---|---|
| Tiny | Under 45kg |
| Small | Under 89.1kg |
| Big | Over 90kg |
| Giant | Over 179.1kg |
How to confirm you caught the Empyrean Relic
There is no ambiguity when it lands. Your character calls it out with one of four lines — “I feel its power..”, “Woah.. An Empyrean Relic??”, “An Empyrean Relic!!”, or “I caught an Empyrean Relic!” — and the catch registers in your Bestiary the same way any new fish does.
After that, open your inventory from the main menu and check that the relic is sitting there before you head to the altar. Relics are consumed when applied, so it is worth verifying you are holding the one you think you are.
Empyrean enchantment effects at the Keepers Altar
The relic’s only use is at the Keepers Altar, where it applies the Empyrean Primary Enchantment to a rod. It occupies the primary enchantment slot, so it replaces whatever primary enchant that rod is currently running.
| Effect | Value |
|---|---|
| Forced Progress Speed | +10% |
| True Progress Speed | +10% |
| Progress Speed | +30% |
| Empyrean mutation chance | 15% (duplicates the catch) |
| Slashes | Slashes with progressing power |
| Empyrean mutation multiplier | 9x value |
The three progress speed stats stack across different layers of the catch minigame, which is what makes the enchant feel so aggressive in practice. The 15% Empyrean mutation roll is the money side of it, since a mutated catch carries a 9x value multiplier.
Trading as an alternative to farming
Because the odds cannot be manipulated, trading is a legitimate shortcut rather than a fallback. Players who have pulled duplicates are frequently willing to deal, and a trade removes the variance entirely.
Whichever route you take, the maths does not change. Speed up your catch loop, ignore every luck modifier you own, and the Empyrean Relic will eventually surface — then hand it straight to the Keepers Altar and enchant the rod you actually plan to fish with.
