Linking (and failing) feels so bad in SSF =(

Im a somewhat new SSF Player and just failed close to 600 Fusings to get a 6 Link and then struggling to get my 5 Link back.

I kinda wish there was something like an 1% increase of 6 Link chance per 100 Fusings spend or something. And seeing it on the Item itself

Anything to indicate you at least work towards the 6 Link on the long run when RNG screws you over.

Feels double bad to sit on 15 Ex you cant buy fusing from like in trade.
But I guess thats the old Trade Player in me feeling annoyed.

It's one of the additional difficulty portions of SSF. People who play SSF should not only expect this to never change, but they probably revel in it. It's just one of many factors that set them apart.

It's why they tic the box.

I think this is a problem with SSF being too difficult.

The mode (drops, enemies, etc...) is specifically balanced around trade (since it uses the same numbers as main softcore). Except there is no trade. This makes current SSF naturally a 'Hardmode SSF'.

If GGG wanted to make a 'natural SSF' mode of comparable difficulty to the main game (i.e., where difficulty/playtime doesn't change, but the road to progress is through your actions instead of through trade), they would need to change the drop rates of certain things to compensate.

As it is, spending hundreds of hours just trying to get a 6 link is pretty discouraging.

If this helps, here are some comments left by people in my other thread:

''Might be worth it to farm an Oni-Garoshi so you have at least one solid six link to farm with. You might also consider target farming the 6-link armor cards, then chaos-spam craft it yourself or chance/scouring orb it to try for a unique you want.

Harvest and prophecies are a good way to get five links/sockets as well. I've noticed a lot of corrupted 6-links popping out of Heists and Vaal side areas too.''

''Anyway the 6 link stuff isn't as bad as u think. It only is if u want to 6link a Unique Chest/weapon. Rare or white 6links are pretty common right now. U can either target farm them with divination cards, going for armour heists or like I did this league (without knowing) use the Atlas passives for Invasions Monsters to drop a high value item. They dropped me 3 6-linked items pretty early on in the league, 2 Chests and 1 Staff.
There's also many corrupted 6links u can get lucky with and use for a certain duration.
For influenced Chests I'd certainly try to get the div cards and then influence the 6l chest before rolling it. Thats much safer than the other way around.''

The average is somewhere around 1,000-1,200 fusings. It's not too uncommon to go 3,000 without a 6L. Don't feel too bad about 600, hopefully you'll get lucky soon.

If you manage to go far enough in delve, you might even find Aul and get the 1,500 fusing guaranteed 6L for future crafts.

the 1500 fusing craft isn't at Aul. U just need to find a Primeval Chamber or whatever its called. Got it last league, but it took a while. Certainly after depth 200+.

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Sadaukar wrote:

the 1500 fusing craft isn't at Aul. U just need to find a Primeval Chamber or whatever its called. Got it last league, but it took a while. Certainly after depth 200+.

My bad, been quite a few leagues since I've seen or needed it. You're correct. I think that node is in the cities where Aul spawns, just not the boss room specifically.

fusing is awful in any league tbh, when it doenst go your way its a soul destroying venture that makes everything you are doing in terms of farming feel worthless. it honestly just makes me feel like quitting the game when i get trolled on a fuse job.

a few leagues ago ziggy went 3k+ fusing trying to link something. the look on his face, he was trying to keep positive for his stream but it was just farm 200 fuse, spam them... nothing... farm more, convert all currency, spam... nothing... it went on for days i think and by the end you could just see the compete drain of any love for the game in his face, all his willpower and fun had been sucked out of him. on a podcast a while later i remember him saying he had enough of fusing things, just bring on poe2 i dont wanna go through trying to 6 link something ever again, and i dont think he was smiling when he said it. its not oh that funny time i got trolled for 3k+ fusing... no, its a wound that feels like shit and sucks all fun out of the air whenever its remembered.


thats how i feel too, it sucks, its gonna be gone tho, poe2 will come and remove this whole thing, making a 5 socket gem will be easier than getting a 6 link, we can transfer xp from one gem to another too, gems are more generic than trying to link a particular armour with particular mods. i know it sucks but the solution is on the horizon and they probably wont do anything about linking with fusing now because of that.

I am also voting for "easy mode" with tens of times better chance of happening a positive outcome of the player actions in SSF mode than in normal mode.
This will make not only the mode more appealing to the peoples, but it will open a whole new world for this mode, and since there is no trade - practically GGG will loose nothing, only give a cookies to their already tired contingent of players.

600 fusings ain't that much tbh. Nevertheless, it's good to have a spare 5-link just in case you fail, or having that pretty common 5L harvest craft stored to not waste these fuses further, or even worse - vendoring a lot of your lesser pixel currencies to get that 5L back.