Best White/Pink Perk to get?

[blizzcarsten]

I am relatively close of getting my first White or Pink Key and while i personally decided on the Perk already, i thought asking the Veterans what the consider the best Perk would not be the dumbest Idea.

Personal Stats
-Halfway trough Mist
-Ascension : 1 (+2 Times with Coupons )

I mentioned this in case there is a perk which would now be better for me. but falls behind a different Perk later/ a lot later on.

Pink Perks

+0.3% fish caught per every multiple of 10 cash owned
+2% chance for rare star card drops
Each upgrade adds +1 starting level for every Rift
Each upgrade gives +1 purple Crystals

White Perks

Deals (3000 + 200)% damage, steals (800 + 75)% monster cash
Distracts enemy (2 +0.2n) seconds, +100 crit chance, +(200 + 20n)% crit damag
+1 starting level for every skill
Each upgrade gives +1 blue Crystals

What i want to get is the Rare Star card Drop perk, altough i don't exactly get the Skill Max Perk. The Icon of this Perk shows a 99 (which i assume is the max for this perk ) but i am wondering what exactly is a Skill? Do the mean Mining,Fishing etc? That would make the most sense but at the same time there is already a raid bonus for that.

thx in advance

[d3n]

The starting level skill applies to all of the skills in the raid bonus section which is important for blacksmith breakpoints and the insane and regal contracts. If you're doing the arcade every day then star cards shouldn't really be a problem until you buy more card slots imo but you may value cards more than me. The fishing bonus isn't that important early because you'll be bottlenecked by ore for blacksmith before fish becomes a problem. Rift bonus is okay but potions and farming exist now so it's less important early on when souls are annoying to get. Banana and tap if you want to push crusade. Crystals are probably the worst option and aren't even usable until you rebirth.

Other than the starting skill level bonus and copper hoarder in orange keys, I don't think it really matters which order you unlock them.

[blizzcarsten]

So that Skill is a Extension of the Raid Bonus then. In that case i definitely think it is the best Option to speed up Ascensions/Rebirths. Altough so far i 2 Times ascended with Coupons and i am gonna ascend again after beating the Mist with.... another Arcade Coupon xD.

To top that of i also have a Rebirth Coupon from the Arcade x).

In short this Skill is defintely the strongest but as long as i don't run out of Coupons i kinda don't need him.

About Cards i currently only have 2 Orange Cards while being at 4 Card Slots. Definitely planning on getting all 10 Slots.

Well now i am kinda back at the Start

Card Drops is more useful now since i have Coupons but the Skill Prk is way better long term when i eventually run out of Coupons UGH this is annoying.