Guild Wars 2

I’m about to craft my third exotic armour, just missing one ecto.

I’m trying to balance dmg with survivability in dungeons. Which would be better vit or toughness?

I can only have one of either in my armour since I don’t want to kill my dmg. So based on your experience, what should I go for?

I would go for Vitality.

The Thief doesn’t has all that much ways to remove conditions, so some more health is always a good idea.
I also didn’t noticed all that much difference when i tried to stack some Toughness.

IMO the Thief has incredible low base Health, but at least medium armor class, so i would try to fix the lack of health first.

Vitality.

Toughness is only good if you plan on lasting for a long time through healing, even in pvp. IMO

I can’t back it up with maths but subjectively speaking Vitality seems far superior to Toughness. Despite having stacked quite a bit of Thoughness in my current gear I don’t really notice much of it in practice.

Alright I will craft the full vit exotic gear and spec in full vit + dmg and report back

Hope it will make me switch my zerker exotic gear.