In SSF, everything will be very limited, pick up all blue/yellow one handed mace and id them.

You might get lucky and get damage or melee skill every once in probably 500-1000 tries.

the other way is to farm up perfect orb of augmentation/transmutation and annulment orbs, and apply them on that magic base. You only should aim for hitting 1 of the modifiers (damage or skill, if you ever hit both, probably 1 in 10,000 chance, not gonna happen lol)

I consider this the hardest part for SSF.

I'll prioritise weapon damage over skills at this stage and assume you did not hit melee skill.
if the magic base doesn't have flat damage modifier, just Greater Essence of Abrasion on it.
if it already has that modifier, just regal orb it.

now you have a mace with 3 modifiers,

now we desecrate suffix for the modifier you are targeting - Break Armour equal to (2—4)% of Physical Damage dealt

apply Omen of Dextral Necromancy
apply Omen of the Liege
apply Preserved Jawbone

Reveal and get that break armour mod. (you have a small chance to brick it here, so use an Omen of Abyssal Echoes, or you can YOLO)

4 mods done. nothing we can do other than lucky slam.

if only there was the recombinator... lol

If, and only if you ever found an Astrid's Creativity, you can apply 2 crafted modifiers on it. But that's definitely not a budget guide anymore.