Definitely Crimson. Cross shield's increase max hp+4% and mana does not work. But in crimson you'll need to use accessories w/o mana option. In the scepters, I'd choose Absolute of course. It has pink option while stryker doesnt.
Agree with moorse but still without some skills you will still get killed by other players.
You should provide more absolute skills and items to make your DL powerful ingame.
Oh yeah heres what i think: Crimson + absolute is the best with Uber too .
Good luck in game
I prefer to use the Absolute Scepter. It has pink option while Stryker doesn't have. Remember that pink option is no longer a bug it was been fixed already for a long, long time. Anyways, if I got Stryker, I'll use it too but for now I only got Absolute. But I recommend you to use both so you can switch from two different yellow options for a specific situation in fights. With shields, same concept with the scepter, if you got both then put them with two different yellow options and use them for a specific situation too. But for me, the shield doesn't matter that much, but I'm using cross shield for now remember about the pot rates too. All items are almost useless if ya got a pretty bad pot rate