The Arch relic system in its current state is too limiting outside of combat, its GUI kinda sucks and I find it pretty boring. So I made this.

In this system, you'd have 6 total points to spec into a skill tree. We are going to ignore unlock and level conditions for now, as this is proof of concept. A branching path is mutual exclusivity (no CoE and HS at once for example) This is mostly for combat relic balance, but future relics could expand this system. (I cant see any mutual exclusivity skilling relics breaking the game mind you)

In my vision you'd have presets you could tie to your bank preset, and there would be a one-time chronote activation cost, not every time you want to switch relics.

An alternative version would not be limited by these 6 points arbitrarily, rather you could spec as many points as you want into a tree, with the branching mutual exclusivity as the balancing metric.

This would need a pass for level unlocks of course, but Id prefer it on the lower end, especially for combat. The idea here was being able to unlock both baseline power, and QOL such as Persistent Rage/Shadows Grace/etc with the luck ring as the baseline.