Recommended changes to Trials for Ascendancy

I have to say that while trial for ascendancy certainly shouldn't be free, they need to do some combination of these things.

1) bring back lab. Labyrinth wasn't the most complex thing ever, but it added an interesting wrinkle to the game, you had to proceed through lab without dying, you could beeline to the boss and fight him or you could look for ways to level the playing field if you were new or weaker. It wasn't so radically different from the main game (trial of sekhemas) or overwhelmingly difficult for the level of character it recommended (trial of chaos.)

2) allow players to access either trial for any ascendancy points. This may be the case for the first two trials already, but it should be extended to all of them if it isn't. My gut says trial of chaos is easier if your defensive layers are based on endurance and recovery, and trial of sekhemas is easier if your defensive layers are positioning/evading. You could add Labyrinth back in or even other ways to ascending.

3) allow the first three trials to be repeatable. This is how it was in PoE1, you could access the first three trials easily, the fourth had to be found in a map. I'm unsure what purpose restricting the third one has - it doesn't give much significant power compared to the second trial or the fourth trial. It's possible they thought the same thing and figured that there wouldn't be much purpose in making it repeatable, but with the highly limited drop rate I've seen of EITHER trial it feels bad that I have to get really lucky twice.

Overall, trials for ascendancy are mostly fine, if not egregiously difficult if you're doing them at level (you either have to be overgeared or overleveled to a significant degree it seems like.) I think some of the recent changes to trials of Sekhemas were welcome and probably needed. I also think giving players a little more freedom while still demanding they attain a requisite level of power is a worthwhile thing to aim for.

I vote for just removing it.