Guild Wars 2

Just wondering. I can’t deal with this situation.
On one side, we have good jewels that add a small (but not few) bonus to all stat (Ancient karka shell and Triforge). On the other we got less stat, but maxed out.

I’m a power necro, and now i’m using two different set of item. On body/weapon i got full power/vit/crit.damage. But all my jewels are from the orichalcum coral set power/precision/condit.damage . All exotic.
Like many, i got the ancient karka shell during the event, but i’m wondering if i should equip it or not.
I get a malus to my main stat (power, vitality and precision (<=which i try to raise enought to have a decent crit%. Now i’m at 27%)) to get bonus to something i don’t know if being usefull or not. like +25 to healing power..or toughness.

Same questions could be done to the Triforge amulet and the Runes of Divinity.

What do you think?
Is it better stack evreything by a medium ammount, or focus on a limited pool of stats?

the crit damage on the earing is equal to 40 of a stat, with that taken into account;

6*25+40=190 (ignoring the magic find)
normal earing have a stat total of 136

it would depend on your overall stats and what type of build you’re going for, if you’re a glass cannon stick to your main stats

as for the triforge;

6*40+64=304 – triforge
90+64+64=218 – any other amulet

i’ll just add that the triforge and the karka shell give you a ~40% incrase in stats, take that as you will

as for rune of the divinity;

orbs = 20+14+14=48 stats
rune=10*6+14=74 stats

runes are 55% better but it would be hard to compare them to rune sets when taking the set bonus into consideration

again, if you’re a glass cannon stick to your main stats but with the rune of divinity i personally wouldn’t shell out 4g+ per rune when i can use a orbs (full set for ~40s max)

I would say if your build can take advantage of ALL the stats on the shell, I would say use it. If only 1/2 of the stats are important to your build, I’d use the normal jewelry.

i dont think there is a single situation where the karka shell is better than any of the crafted exotic trinkets

I’m not glass cannon, I look for power/precision/vitality. However, just because i search for them it doesn’t mean i’m doing the right thing.
This is the focus of my question.
Is it ‘right’ looking for all stat rather than a few (but maxed..)?

I think you would be better off going for specific stat buffs suitable to your play style and other kit rather than a shotgun style approach.

For example, I have a glass cannon build, armour and weapons. I used specific exotic trinkets (2 Knight rings, 2 Valkyrie earrings and Valkyrie amulet) to add some toughness and vitality to my build.

Not saying this is this is right for you, but just something to consider.

My Ancient karka shell is sitting unused in my bank. I will probably salvage it for ecto and other mats …

A lot of the stuff that I have my Thief churning out these days at Jeweler 350 seem to be just a little bit better than the Karka shell item, so I’m probably just going to bank mine and see if one of my Alts could benefit from it.