Question for melee players with their 3rd/4th Ascendancy

Thank you, Scarletsword, I will put some time in getting relics during my weekend and see if that helps.

Yes, this system sucks so much for Warrior. All of my skills are slow heavy hits, in which I lose a quarter of honor trying to use a skill. I've been playing for 45 hours now and just to be bricked on my Ascendancy Progression is not fun in any way. I love all the difficult and challenging designs, but this one is just too much. It is forcing everyone to play archetypes they don't necessarily want to, just to be able to get past certain systems. I am up for removing honor and replace with more difficult mobs and traps.

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What I'm mostly wondering is -- is the incentive here to repeatedly engage with these trials as non-ascendancy content? Will this unlock additional relic space for me

Still really hoping to get a concrete answer to this. How do I increase that relic space?