Crystal Trinkets

[Tikom]

What are the best trinkets to buy with crystal shards in your opinion and why?

[LaserGuy]

Abomination probably has the strongest of the bunch and is super cheap. This should probably be your first pick if you use him at all.

Hellion and HWM trinkets are both very solid. Excellent bonuses with minimal downsides. Arbalest is also good but very expensive.

The one that ignores Stealth is cheap and reasonably useful in areas where stealth is a nuisance.

I'd probably get them in roughly that order, then pick up whatever else looks decent.

The MaA one looks better than it actually is, though it's okay on bosses with high damage outputs.

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[Skinny Pete]

Originally posted by LaserGuy:

Abomination probably has the strongest of the bunch and is super cheap. This should probably be your first pick if you use him at all.

Hellion and HWM trinkets are both very solid. Excellent bonuses with minimal downsides. Arbalest is also good but very expensive.

Antiquarian's is excellent and good if you want a super dodgy Antiquarian. GR is somewhat less good, although it has similarly limited uses.

I really like the Vestal's trinket. It's a healing trinket, but unlike most of those doesn't destroy your combat ability but instead has a +25% DMG buff, so would be worth carrying for its own sake. It also makes 2nd position with Profane Scroll a valid melee strategy where Vestal can alternate between truly massive healing output or reasonably good dps melee.

Similarly, I almost always use the Jester's. Again, it combines a stress skills buff, ordinarily something that's taking up a trinket slot by itself, with a nice fat damage buff.

Shieldbreaker's is a nice damage buff. Not much else to say about it.

The two bottom tier "why does this even exist" trinkets are two of the most expensive, the Crusader's and the Musketeer's. Complete crap and absurdly overpriced. I suppose I'll buy them for the achievement eventually.

[Tikom]

Alright thx!