SSF weapon crafting in 0.5

A thread for the solo-players, want to know what everyone's strategies might be for crafting weapons in light of the recent patch-note update. Seems we're no longer able to multi-essence our crafted weapons.

Outside of the "use greater Essence of Abrasion on a blue item with a decent IPD affix" strategy followed up by a rune/alloy - desecrate, and finished as necessary with exalt slam(s), I'm only seeing:

- Lucky Fracture on desired affix (Flat Phys if 1h and IPD if 2h)
- Annul + Chaos spam 2nd desired affix (Probably vice versa from step 1)
- Alloy Runecraft/Perfect Essence 3rd Affix
- Desecrate 4th affix (can be rerolled/annulled, if you have the omens)
- Double-Omen Exalt 5th & 6th affix and pray they don't suck
- Whittle the suffixes if it's worth

My concern is that in 0.4 I played SSF a lot and only found about 7 fracturing orbs, used 6 of them, and hit once on a +3 amulet. After using all my chaos and about 2 weeks of burning even more chaos, I just gave up on hitting my 2nd desired mod because I was tired of not having chaos for other things. I perhaps should have settled for t2, which I hit twice, and rolled past.

It feels like in SSF the fracture method is bait on weapons and jewelry.

This is half-addressed by the fact that I'm not too worried about jewelry in 0.5 because the new league mechanics look promising for farming decent jewelry, and I think it will better use of my fractures to keep it relegated to the bases that don't threaten to blow my entire league's worth of chaos orbs.

I understand that we're signing up for "a challenge" in SSF but without the recombinator around and with the reduction on +levels and multi-essence crafting, and greater/perf currency drops, it kind of feels like we're really at the mercy of RNGesus - maybe similar to how it felt in 0.1.

I think it's just weapons that are feeling kind of hopeless. For some reason I'm not equally concerned about caster weapons or sceptres, which I had stash tabs horded with of usable drops. Good weapons seemed way more rare.

Maybe I'm missing some strategies - any other SSF players got any ideas?

There is not much to be said without knowing all the meta rune crafting possibilities that are going to be introduced.

My opinion is that anything above 4xt1 desired affixes should be very hard to achieve, otherwise there is nothing to progress towards.
Getting near bis weapons on day 2 of the league is idiotic, and the exact reason for why I've stopped playing trade.

Essence crafting was close to broken in 0.4, hard to imagine how absolutely out of control it would've become with all the additional possibilities coming in 0.5.
However these changes pan out, they will never come close to the state of SSF in 0.1/0.2.

No ideas really besides hoping and praying that the runes of aldur crafting / alloys etc... offer more to adress this issue than we currently know about.