Originally Posted by
Makh
Scabbard is hard to beat for trinkets. Yes, the passive trinkets look good on paper, but do not underestimate the importance of on-use trinkets. Scabbard is pretty much a 50% increase in strength, and you can time it to overlap with your other buffs. Using it in tandem with Avenging Wrath increases its impact by 20% (plus another ~20% from having access to HoW). Using it during bloodlust improves it about another 30%.
Scabbard isn't far and away better than something like Bottle of Infesting Spores, but you will probably do 1.5% better damage with Scabbard than Spores.
Yes, Mastery is your best Secondary stat.
Yes, Divine Purpose is good for CMs because you spend so much time on trash (and DP is good on trash).