A little help with gearing

[Krindor]

then why do the secondaries become a major decision in gear comparisons and best in slot decisions? Do I really trade off my main stat in favor of better secondaries?

Also, I'm confused by crit and det. If crit does double work (both damage and crit chance), then why is determination even considered at all?

My apologies if the tone comes off wrong, I'm just wanting to make my own decisions as far as gearing instead of having to look up what's best.

If by themselves the secondary stats of course have no significant difference but with 50-100 stats that's different. Say there's a SMN piece with 81 INT, 69 accuracy and 48 spell speed. With Dervy's stat weights that would be 87 INT. Now say there's a lower ilvl piece with 75 INT, 65 crit and 43 det, the resulting INT would be 100 which is a lot more INT than the other SMN piece. The reason to consider other stats are because of there being at least 2 stats per item.