Once again, this patch contains so many changes that I have restricted it to another forum post. This particular update was made to rework trinkets I didn't have time to address in patch 3.0, provide further stat adjustments to trinkets I noticed were falling behind in usefulness, and add some additional trinkets to address some niches that T+ did not properly account for.

Similar to the change notes for patch 3.0, I have split things up such that this primary forum post talks about universal trinkets, and the comments address hero specific trinkets as well as any new trinkets that were added.

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NEWLY ADDED TRINKETS

Just Lucky: +5% CRT, -10% Crits Received, -100% Resolve EXP
Wanderer's Robe: +2 SPD, +10% PROT, -100% Resolve EXP
Bloody Stake: +25% Bleed Chance, +33% Bleed Duration Applied
*Just Lucky and Wanderer's Robe are the two latest editions to the series of "-100% Resolve EXP trinkets". These are intended to be generically useful in most builds whilst blocking a hero from levelling up, for finer control over when heroes hit Resolve 3 or 5.
*Some useful feedback I obtained was the lack of generic +bleed/+blight chance trinkets in T+. Whilst blight and bleed stone are obtained early on, there are cases where using multiple +bleed/+blight chance trinkets would be useful. As such, I have added an additional +bleed chance trinket and reworked another trinket as its blight counterpart.


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GENERIC TRINKET CHANGES

- Book of Constitution: Reworked, all previous effects removed
- Book of Constitution: Now adds +25% Blight Chance and +33% Blight Duration
- Book of Constitution: Renamed to Book of Bane
*This trinket is the aforementioned counterpart to Bloody Stake. Reworked as the T+ trinket pool already has plenty of +bleed/blight resistance trinkets

- Dismas Head: Reverted to vanilla version
*Dismas Head is a trinket I've gone back and forth on nerfing several times. But after running the numbers and hearing feedback, I've decided to bring it back to its weaker vanilla iteration. The problem with this trinket is that it isn't actually very rare—the text in game says so, but with how common the Collector and secret rooms are, its not unlikely to get this trinket by week 10. This was bad from a trinket progression standpoint, as many of the very rare DMG trinkets were still outclassed by this thing. As such, I've decided to readd the -10% Max HP penalty that it has in vanilla.

- Ancestor's Pistol: Reverted to vanilla version
*I was wrong. There were a few people who critiqued this trinket as worse than the vanilla iteration, and they were correct. If I am to allow trinkets like Prophet's Eye or the reworked Crew's Bell to exist, and Ancestor's Pistol is acquired at a similar point in the game to those trinkets, then there is no reason why the vanilla Ancestor's Pistol shouldn't also be in the game.

- Eldritch/Man/Unholy/Beast Slayer Rings: DODGE penalty removed
*After further consideration, I've decided to remove the downside from these rings entirely. Compared to Dismas Head, the dodge penalty on these trinkets could be worse than the stress AND hp penalty. These trinkets already have the problem of not giving damage 100% of the time, so removing their downside will help keep them competitive.

- Healing Mixture: Heal can no longer crit.
*This trinket was more powerful than expected compared to its counterpart in Beaded Necklace, as a critical heal would restore a huge chunk of HP AND heal stress. Removing the critical heals should bring it more into line.

- Star Charm/Amulet: Healing/Stress Healing Received Penalties increased from -20% to -25%
*I initially wanted to nerf these trinkets by giving them -30% penalties. However, I feared the risk of overnerfing them. -25% should be a good compromise for now. Please do chime in with your thoughts on these trinkets if you use them, as I've found opinions quite split on their usefulness.

- Distended Crowseye: Scouting bonus decreased from +15% to +10%
*This trinket is incredibly powerful for what it does. +10 ACC alongside scouting is exceptional value for a trinket slot, with disease resistance as the cherry on top. This adjustment should rein it back a little bit.

- Berserk Charm: Adjusted tooltip formatting

- Thirsting Stone: Healing and SPD bonus removed
- Thirsting Stone: Now adds +20% DMG and +15% Armorpiercing
*Two trinkets which give +ACC and +SPD are being added into the pool this patch (Ancestor's Pistol and Matchman's Fusestick). These ended up making Thirsting Stone obsolete, and as such it has been reworked. This version should be a little more enticing with unconditional +ACC and +DMG, but the downside is of course still present.


- Blighted Idol: DMG and Armorpiercing bonuses removed
- Blighted Idol: Now adds +30% Healing Skills and +15% PROT
*Now that Thirsting Stone gives +DMG and +AP, I had to take a second look at Blighted Idol, which was left without a niche. This new version turns it into a risky support trinket, with powerful upsides if you can manage the health drain.

- Book of Holiness: Reworked, all previous effects removed
- Book of Holiness: Now grants +20% Stress Healing Skills
*This trinket was for the most part a mediocre sidegrade to the Book of Relaxation. This change aims to make the trinket a parallel to Chirurgeon's Charm, but for stress healing skills instead of healing skills. That said, trinkets which boost stress healing are typically not as important as those which boost healing, so its effect is a little bit more powerful.

- Ethereal Crucifix: Reworked, all previous effects removed
- Ethereal Crucifix: Now grants +30% Stress Healing Skills, +33% Bleed Resist, +10% Deathblow Resist, and -10% Max HP
*Whilst the original version of this trinket (which granted +DMG vs Unholy and Eldritch) wasn't bad, it was unnecessary. T+ adds a lot of +DMG trinkets, but very few stress relief ones. This change aims to give the Ethereal Crucifix a niche in the stress healing department, with an additional survivability gimmick that the resistances and max hp penalty provide.

- Shimmering Amulet: ACC bonus increased from +5 to +7
*I often passed this trinket up for ones that gave +10 ACC or higher. Perhaps I am underrating the value of bypassing stealth and guard, but a small buff shouldn't hurt.

- Hero's Ring: ACC bonus increased from +5 to +7
*Same line of thought as with the Shimmering Amulet

- Fang Talisman: AP bonus increased from +15% to +20%
- Fang Talisman: CRIT bonus increased from +2% to +7%
- Fang Talisman: Rarity upgraded to Rare
*If Fang Talisman is going to be one of the few universal trinkets that gives AP, it should be reasonably strong so it can compete with other, much stronger trinkets. That's exactly what this change aims to accomplish.

- Lens of the Comet: Reworked, nearly all previous effects removed
- Lens of the Comet: Now grants +7% CRT, Bypass Stealth, and removes stealth from enemies on attack hit.
*Although I don't think there was anything particularly wrong with the previous version of this trinket, at times it felt a little too similar to the Shimmering Amulet. These changes should help to differentiate the two trinkets whilst preserving the wacky flavour that most CoM trinkets have.

- Miller's Pipe: Removed partywide -20% PROT and -2 SPD debuff on hero killed
*Although technically a buff, this will likely change very little in practice. The trinket still does a +45 stress nuke when the wearer is killed, and in most cases that is already enough to force a retreat. Losing a hero is very often an auto retreat even without a stress nuke, and so the debuffs served to be little more than tooltip bloat.

- Coat of Many Colors: Stress penalty when hero killed increased from +25 to +45
- Coat of Many Colors: Removed the AoE stun when hero killed
- Coat of Many Colors: Now grants -1% Crits Received when killing a monster
- Coat of Many Colors: Tooltips cleaned up and standardized.
*Similar to the issue with Millers Pipe, having two different death effects was overkill. Nuking party stress is already enough, but then adding an AoE stun? Ridiculous. This change aims to standardize the death penalty of the two trinkets, and make the trinket more rewarding for all the work required to both buy it and use it.

- Countess Fan: Removed extended craving duration buff
*The extended craving stage this trinket gave made managing the curse too free, especially when compared to other options such as the Ancestor's Vintage or Mantra of Fasting. Whilst it is true that this trinket is significantly harder to get, the extended bloodlust duration and decreased passive duration is already an extreme upside when managed correctly, and stacking easier craving management on top of that was just too much.

- Crew Bell: Reworked, all previous effects removed
- Crew Bell: Now adds +15 ACC, +15% PROT, and +15% Stress Healing Received. These benefits only apply in position 1.
*The Crew's Bell has always been disappointing—both the vanilla version, and the previous reworks. However, I had a stroke of inspiration to fix it: make it the position 1 equivalent of Prophet's Eye, with some different buffs. This should tremendously increase its usefulness and put it on the same level as other boss trinkets

- Hag's Ladle: Reworked, all previous effects removed
- Hag's Ladle: Now adds -25% Blight Resistance
- Hag's Ladle: Now heals the entire party 1 HP on any action. This heal cannot crit, and in the case of heroes with multiple actions it will block all further healing that hero can do for that round.
*Hag's Ladle was a good source of +blight chance...but it was acquired way too late into the game. This rework aims to make it a variant of the new Siren's Conch, providing passive healing on any character.

- Fuseman's Matchstick: Reworked, all previous effects removed
- Fuseman's Matchstick: Now adds +25% DMG, +3 SPD, and +10 ACC AFTER first round
- Fuseman's Matchstick: Now adds -100% DMG ON first round
*The matchstick is not a bad trinket in vanilla, but it suffers a design redundancy when compared to Ancestor's Musket Ball. This new rework aims to capture some of the flavor of the brigand cannon fight with a trinket that is incredibly powerful...but that needs some time to get going.