guess what's more expensive than trinkets

5* gear that's fully heated

heck, even 5* gear that's UNHEATED is more expensive than a 5* trinket

5* trinkets don't need heat

lockdown isn't supposed to be taken so seriously, so tread carefully, fellow casual

#strikerproblems

You think LD would be better without trinkets?

Bac in the day, when skelly armor derps and people who used sudaruska seriously roamed the battlefield, trinkets did not exist. You could be recon and 2 hit ANY striker. As an ASH TAIL.

You need trinkets to excel at LD for the mostt lart. And after making them, maintenance is very cheap.

People should not conform to your problems, especially if you expect to excel when playing 5x a month. Be a little less self centered, LD doesnt revolve around you or anyone else Nova Buster.

Welcome to my life nova. ;.;

You don't need trinkets to excel in lockdown, end of story. Like honest, with trinkets you can tank 2 heavy hits, without you can tank 1 heavy hit. Such a difference. You know there's this one valuable skill that you should know of, maybe you heard of it. It's called DODGING. I've been playing around with fencing jacket and some bucket helm(1* gear) and trinkets which brings me up to roughly about 5* striker without trinkets hp(setting aside that you get better bonuses as a 5* striker) and I can do roughly 15-20k in that setup with a bunch of caps. So it's not exactly a deal breaker if you can't afford them..

Trinkets destroy the balance between classes, but I'd rather have one overpowered, skill-based class than three balanced ones that are only balanced because they all die in three hits.

Not really...

The other classes benefit more from non-health trinkets. Like, two speed trinkets and now EVERY SWORD IS ULTRA ASI (alternatively, gun: High) for a guardian, EVERY GUN IS MAX ASI (or alternatively, sword: High) for recon. The main things they'd lack in comparison to striker is chase ability and 3-4 levels of sword stats (depending on whether you're guardian or recon), which really goes down to losing 1 extra attack to kill.

People like the OP assume that "trinkets" = "health trinkets". Yeah, if you're going for an "optimized" loadout, you go with +4 damage gear, a damage trinket, a health trinket, and use UVs to deal with ASI, but in the general case, the health trinket is only a bonus for non-striker classes.
Give recon or guardian health trinkets and they just become meatier damage food. Give them damage or speed trinkets, and they become safer, more mobile, more dangerous.

Have you guys ever heard of this thing called dodging ? If you're a good player you shouldn't need health trinks to perform well because you should be able to dodge people's attacks. Its not by far the most important piece of LD gear in my opinion either. And you can't get 1 hit from GF without trinkets unless you wear dusker or something that's 3* so /shrug

Try playing without trinks... It's quite possible. I've hit up to 25k without trinks. If you think about it, all that trinks do is add you enough resistance for 1 more hit. It allows you to survive 1 more which isn't spectacularly that much. That's when talking sword wise though and is a completely different story when it comes to guns.

Well actually, it would be harder. If nobody had trinkets, you would get 2*6*40 (two trinkets, six pips, 40 health per pip) damage less per enemy. That's 480 damage.

^Thats not completely dependent on trinkets though.

I had a match where i had ancient plate mail and vog helm.

23k dmg.

With heart trinkets. Very lame damage, but the point im getting at is the other team sucked BadLY.

So yeah, it iisnt all about trinkets.

However, in a game with high tiered players, you will get your *&/% destroyed if you have no trinkets. Like, the other team will literally take your %*#& and destroy you with it.

Yeah, so......guns.