You mean like ignore what slots they are locked to entirely? I don't think that would work even with the links, if a shard that doesn't have any bonus on blue is in the blue slot, linking to it's not going to get any bonus out of that shard
No, I mean having the salvage shard placed on, say, green, and linking it to pink to enable its effect. Right now my +salvage loadout needs to have the Salvage shard on pink, meaning all other links between pink will be one-sided since Salvage offers nothing else. I'd rather put a more link-friendly shard on pink, like Battle, but right now I can't do that without losing out on the Salvage shard entirely.
I think I get the idea... which could be useful now that we can have multiple links.
example of current: salvage shard has to be in pink, battle shard linked to pink.
example of idea: battle shard in pink, salvage shard linked to it to activate it's effect.
result of idea: Allowing for battle shard's links to be used to activate pink effects on other shards.