Guild Wars 2

So I am starting to delve a bit into PvE and I have quite a number of laurels saved up so I was looking to get some ascended trinkets. Whilst looking at them I realized that I don’t know if I should be grabbing trinkets with offensive, defensive, or utility infusion slots (I totally grabbed a Red Ring of Death ages ago without even considering those options). How important are they and which ones should I go for when playing a strictly PvE build?

Within any given stat combo, you can only have 1 with offense and 1 with defense.

For amulets…I just take utility because they are the only ones that have that option.

You get one each of your Offensive/Defensive for the trinkets and rings (so Ring of Red Death and Crystalline Band for zerker stats for ascended rings). Trinkets are unique, so you can only grab one of each, so you end up getting both offensive and defensive at the end. This doesn’t matter fundamentally, since you’ll almost certainly just be slotting versatile infusions anyway for the AR.

For amulets, the utility ones are almost always superior. They can slot everything you’d ever want to slot— normal versatile infusions for AR, or karma/magic find infusions for farming.