Guild Wars 2

So… should it provide toughness or vitality? pvp and pve gears have different opinions about this, I checked in the forum but couldn’t really find a clear answer to this, in my opinion the knight gear should get vitality in pve, simply because the only reliable equips that give you precision without being too squishy are the knight’s gear, plus there’s no other reliable way of stacking vitality other than soldier’s if you are going for direct damage.

However, due to the toughness knight’s gears give, mobs will often target you (I myself ended up being constantly chased in 4 dungeons in a row and getting trolled by other players for mobs loving me, kitin champions ain’t fun…-.-’) killing the purpose of safely shooting while keeping the distance.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro

(Just to make sure, I was playing engineer in knight/soldier gear, had about 2k700 toughness and was playing with lvl 80s, yea warriors and guardians too, and was playing static discharge rifle build, often switching to grenades)

Also people often prefer vitality in general ’coz not only it provides survivability, but also better resistance to conditions.

Anyway, is this a bug? which version is the bug and could we get some official response on this as people are spending time and golds over this?

people often prefer toughness as it scales better with healing – as same amount of hp with more armor is worth more, hence same amount of healing is worth more. as for conditions, if you don’t remove those 25 bleed stacks, vit is not gonna help you.

in pve, everything with ‘knights’ on it, is toughness/power/precision.

@Saulius.8430

I’m aware of that, but I was asking some official statement on this, also because I brought up the argument that, in order to stack some vitality I’m forced to stack a LOT of toughness, which ultimately results in a LOT of aggro in pve (which is why I posted the aggro table)

About guys saying that knight gear=toughness ‘coz all pve stuff that got such a suffix has those stats… perhaps you forgot to mention that trinkets’ jewels give more precision rather than toughness, which is likely unintended?

It’s just a suffix, stats not reflecting such a suffix may actually be a bug, no?