Guild Wars 2

Which stat is better for elementalist, toughness or precision?
I play PVE, mostly dungeons and use scepter/dagger.
I use Arcane Power as one of my utility skills and the Arcane Mastery trait which makes my Arcane Power’s cooldown stand at 36 seconds. I use it at the start of my combo so that every 36 seconds, my whole combo crits.
Not sure whether I should swap my Berserker items for Valkyrie ones.
Any thoughts and advices?
Cheers.

If you know every boss, dungeon mechanic well then anything less than full zerk is a waste of dps/burst imo, but make sure you have at least 1 defensive utility like mist form. If you still struggle in certain aspects within pve then yea get some sustain with toughness and health.

Zerk.

/15 char

The vitality from valkyre’s is more for a condition damage defense than direct damage mitigation. You can continue bursting through burns and bleeds a little bit longer before having to activate ether renewal or other cleanse.

Neither of these has toughness, you maybe thinking of cavalier(power/tough/crit).

I regularly carry a full set of zerk, valk, and soldier for different situations.

For the purposes of PvE, Berserker.

My guide in my sig talks about good Ele builds for Dungeons.

The pvp version of Valkyrie is one of the best amulets for a damage-oriented elementalist. But the pve version gives vitality instead of toughness + healing power, so Cavalier is the closer there is to the pvp version.

Cavalier is actually a decent set as long as you can maintain fury and have some extra precision from other sources. Sigil of Accuracy, 20-30 points in Air, a few berserker’s trinkets, etc. You won’t need the extra precision to deal high damage with your arcane utility skills or with sigil of fire, so getting around 50% critical chance (more so with food) with fury with Cavalier might be worth sacrificing a zerk-only gear for, while increasing your survival and self-healing a lot.