For me, it took about 5 games to get the relic down. I'm not talking about what I had to do, that seemed pretty simple. Pick it up, kill the enemies, cleanse. That was simple. The hardest part of the relic was getting the physics down. At game 6, i was destroying oracles with it, taking out the hobgoblins on mars in one shot, even getting my way around the "healing" Minotaur on the steps. When crotas end came out, it was the same thing. The hardest part about being the sword bearer in CE is the fact you will die in 1 hit on hard mode, and Crota moves, really, really fast.