I suggest adding a safeguard in the amount of fusings you can use to 6l an item. Say over 4000 fusing uses guarentees a 6l. This would keep fusings as a gambling item with the potential to punish those unlucky enough to make it to 4k but also provide a similar guarantee that vorici provides.
This is already implemented. Just stop after 2,500 fusings and then use Vorici :-)
That you DIDNT stop after 2,500 fusings and still continued to gamble shows that ... well you WANTED to gamble. After 2,500 negative experiences you still hoped for the 6L somewhere in between 2,501 and 3,999 fusings.
In fact, you DID get value for fusings 2.501 through 3.999 at the time of use. Everytime you had a one in maybe 1.400 chance to get an immediate 6L. That you didn't, well tough luck, that's how lotteries work.
To come back complaining at the end that you didnt win and want a guaranteed win at some point ... well try doing that in a casino, always betting on zero (chance to win 1 in 37) and then demanding a cash out after you lost 100 times because "that's much more than 37, players shouldnt be punished for betting 100 times on zero and getting nothing".
For your convenience, and others, as most people do not seem to do even the simplest maths when spending 1+ months worth of farming:
probability to need more than x fusings until succesful six-link (assuming a 1/1.400 chance):
0 - 100% (you will need at least one fuse)
1 - 1.399/1.400 = 99.93%
2 - (1.399/1.400)^2 = 99.86%
3 - (1.399/1.400)^3 = 99.79%
10 - (1.399/1.400)^10 = 99.29%
100 - (1.399/1.400)^100 = 93.10%
500 - (1.399/1.400)^500 = 69.96%
1,000 - (1.399/1.400)^1,000 = 48.94% (so about one half of people will need > 1,000 fuses)
1,400 - (1.399/1.400)^1,400 = 36.77% (this equals approx. 1/e)
2,000 - 24%
3,000 - 12%
4,000 - 5.7%
5,000 - 2.8%
6,000 - 1.4%
7,000 - 0.67%
8,000 - 0.33%
9,000 - 0.16%
10,000 - 0.079%
TLDR:
1. Don't gamble unless that's fun to you. If it's not fun in hindsight, don't complain.
2. 37% of times you will be better of using Vorici from the start.
3. Some of those 37% will become VERY costly and will make you rant on forums.
4. If you want a built-in guarantee after X fuses, stop at X-1,500 fuses and then use Vorici.
5. Rule of thumb: every 1,000 fuses give 50% chance to succesfully 6-link
This is terrific. This is a mike-drop quality post. Thank you for that!
Except the 1/1400 doesn't test. It's more common than that. It MIGHT be that without quality on an item, but it's pretty easy to show that the practical chance is closer to 1/1200.
I'm 2200 fusings into this guy so far.. I can relate to how you must feel..
It would be fair if vorici costed 600-800 fusings at the present times.
1500 FKING GOD DAMMED FUSINGS its really really hard to make that much when you are actually playing the game and are not some genius trade+meta master or secret recipe exploiter ( nothing wrong in that but i can still hate)
I am just spinning around getting nowhere days , weeks of time , money just wasted .
IF THE FUCKING VORICI costed 600-800 fusings then maybe just maybe every one would actually want to try out the some of the 80+ FUCKING UNIQUE AMOURS we have in this game.
Is it just soo outrageous that i want this simple unique armour with offcolours to 6L
Nah, 1500 is fair. I’ve never spent more than 400f. Just don’t go crazy and splurge.
IT was fair in the dark ages where massive inflation was rampant, bots were rampant , trading was really alive , leagues were not dead in the first 2 weeks and when GGG did not nerf currency rates and made every effort to curb inflation.
Its fair in standard league , but not in a temp league.
