Make. Relic. Shield. Melee. Only.
Does this REALLY need to be said? An adc sharing gold with their support for a quicker ardent censer + additional gold per second for themselves + a free shield is absolutely cancerous.
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Why? It severely weakens their early game fighting potential and can be exploited. If you don't then it's your failure. ADC buildpath has been the same stale shit for years, and now that it has finally been given a little diversity people complain. It's also not "free" you have to literally buy it, charge it, and it also comes at the cost of said combat stats early game. There's a reason not everyone buys it.
You lose lifesteal and ad in the early game, and the real problem is censer. I mean, when have ADC's remotely considered to give some gold to the support? Even now is just so they get benefits sooner.
Wouldn't mind if they tried something alittle different with support items like this. Instead of the melee only, which half of the item already is, perhaps making the item unable to be sold would adjust marksman priorities. Marksman already have Cull, a more fair version of Relic anyway.
The problem is that it genuinely is Thresh's ideal gold income item.
What if, and this is a crazy idea since it's theoretically a nerf, these gold income items can't be sold once you buy them.
I just played against a raka and kalista both with relic shield. it was so awful for them. They had no dmg, an easy win for me!
Honestly, this is the only tactic I like that has come out of Ardent Censor being good. It's a cool option and I think it should stay. Everything else though, get out of here with it. Ardent Censor really needs to be toned down.
And make and 
forced into talisman? Not sure it would be fair since they are the most played.