RGN vs real crafting

My 6 links in the 2wk race had 6 links pls , it's not even hard to get .

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PleiadesBlackstar wrote:

You also DO NOT NEED A 6 LINK. NOBODY NEEDS A 6 LINK.

This

Complete utter bullshit... Despite the fact that 6L is endgame goal - having it makes the game WAY MORE FUN than shitty 5l does.

Try playin trapper (non saboteur) without trap cooldown as 6th link - AWFUL!!! Dear god kill it with fire.

I've not seen any 4-link (since 5/6 link are supposedly "not necessary") videos on Atziri. Izaro and Malachai are quite the wet dream for HC players (I am certainly not, I work in the ER so damned much, I don't have time to master this game). Still, their videos show them with 6 links, just the same.

If the argument that 5 and 6 link items are not necessary, then why don't the HC players post videos to that effect?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=atziri+on+a+4+link

4 link atziri runs.

Theres even a 2 link atziri run with SB.

Im pretty sure theres plenty of totem builds that can do atziri on a 4 link.

regular atziri is a joke. I've seen uber on a 4L

couple i remember
fox's arc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaQ1QQuFS7w
mathils puncture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixr8xY8VcXA

People who feel they "need" a 6L just haven't learned to play the game well. They need the extra bonus it offers because they're just not that good at playing the game.

If they had learned to play without one, they'd see that... but they didn't. They went straight to the 6L through trading.

D3 saw the same effect, albeit with different mechanics, and removed trading from the game.

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Panini_aux_olives wrote:

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PleiadesBlackstar wrote:

You also DO NOT NEED A 6 LINK. NOBODY NEEDS A 6 LINK.

This

But you can expect to find/make one after 4 years of play. Also it can be as tedious to make a 5L. In PSC I didn't roll a single 5L in about 450 fusing, that was all my stock.

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Fortunately, I eventually 6L at the end of these 450 fusing

Getting your 4Ls while leveling can be *really* horrible too. 4L quest rewards help a bit now, but they're quite recent and there was a time we didn't even have them.

It still doesn't change that GGG's form of crafting is working as intended. That kind of luck sucks but is still an outlier. I know people always say "Don't spend currency on leveling" but I always throw a few chroms, jewelers and fusings at whatever I need at the time and have never run into progress issues until I am ready to make that jump to a 5 link. My solutions has always been to get 6 sockets simply to make the odds of a 5l 6s a lot easier than a 5 socket only.

I mostly agree with the OP, in that 'crafting' is the wrong term to describe the process in this game. There is no 'craft' in throwing massive amounts of resources at RNG and hoping something nice comes out of it. (I imagine an armourer pounding away at some helmet, but instead of every blow bringing it closer to perfection, every blow randomly changes the item. Some craftsmanship you got there, bro.)

Master crafting helps a bit.

But, I've long since learned to accept it. I simply mentally replace the word 'crafting' where ever I see it with the word 'gambling', and it helps me retain my sanity.

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I understand the passive intent is for the average or determined player to hoard currency in order to get what they want done. They do this, in my opinion, to further sales in buying stash tabs.

I'd like to see there be a less frequency of certain currency, yet make them MORE effective. I am not much for running out of stash room or making other alts/accounts to control OCD in hoarding.

As per how pivotal a 6L is, when I play with tabula rasa, it's better to use a rare armor due to the lack of stats.

Oh, I wanted to clarify that I wasn't really initially posting on a 6 link. I have wasted altogether over 187 fusings trying to get a 5 link. I'd also blown through 200+ jewelers trying to get 6 socket on the same item. I resigned to just 5 sockets.

As for the guy who said I should just spend the 1500 to make a 6L, that demands a 'what's the point?!' response, imho. Not many things in this game are worth 1500 fusings. The monetary/trade system here is very frustrating. I kind of like DDO's trade system where you post something and give a certain amount of time to pass and it either sells or doesn't.

Here, the trading gets people on to misuse the global channel. It means also that people of different time zones don't meet up as easily, if at all.