Guild Wars 2

My first Mesmer/Chrono alt, and I am currently crafting my first set of ascended gear. I have zerker stats on my weapons (staff, GS, sword and shield) and was considering Knight’s stats for all armor pieces (power, precision and toughness) just to give me a rounded set to use in most game contexts (I mostly PvE solo but would like to try Fractals and Raids eventually.)
I do not have time to do a great deal of theorycrafting and this class is a complicated class to begin with (which makes it very interesting) so I am hoping that this kind of armor is suitable, if not optimal, for gameplay into the foreseeable future.
I would be grateful for any feedback from the community.

Knights works to give you more survivability. However…there’s a big consideration here. You mentioned wanting to run raids eventually. If you’ve got a bunch of toughness, that makes you the tank. Now, chrono is usually asked to tank, so this could be fine. If you’re not personally comfortable with tanking though, you need to have a pure glass setup so that you don’t get the aggro.

This is why ascended armor can be tricky yeah you can change stats in forge. But u find u probably need a few sets for different game types. And exotic is fine esp Open World. Open World PvE – leveling – bosses – yeah toughness and vit is great. Actually I use same set I use in WvW for that PvE often.

But going to Raid/Fractal is where toughness is tough – unless u tank. And too much vit too; if maximizing DPS.

PERSONALLY in open world I don’t like full zerker. Unless u take that into raids and are lazy and I am trust me why I take my WvW sets into PvE :P Just not Raids/Fractals. Where I am building sets for.

Many thanks for the responses Fay and Erisk – I am interested in tanking on this class and found some good contemporary information on doing just that. I am committed to Knight’s armor now since I bought those specific ascended recipes so your answers helped me to fell as if I did not make an egregious mistake.

i know it is expensive and hard to do, but i suggest commander stats (power precision toughness and concentration).
when you become comfortable with mesmer you can perfectly tank with less toughness (you can still round it up with trinkets if needed) and still have nice damage.
i suggest it because it provides also boon duration and as a tank in raid that is your job to keep quickness uptime as much as possible while you keep the boss focused on you.
if you decide you want go commander though remember not to craft the armor but just change the stats on your current one or on your spare one in mystic forge. it is so much easier