Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing a guardian for a decent while. I generally focus on being a tank in other games and figured I could in this game. Obviously this game is MUCH different and the idea of “tanking” isn’t possible anymore, but I tried anyway- going all toughness and vitality, with a sigil that stacks healing power on my mace with the idea that after 25 stacks I’d have decent healing on my mace’s third strike and passive heal and regen boons. The thing is I read somewhere on the forums that power is exponential while defense is linear, meaning that eventually defense would be useless because even the weakest enemies can plow through you. So then why bother with defense or guardians in general? Why not just go pure power/crit and one shot everything?

I get the feeling people are doing this, as the most expensive items are revolve around that, and I always was unusual- valuing defense over offense. But does that mean defense and HP are useless? Is it better to just forget those stats and go pure power? And if so, doesn’t that undermine the whole idea that you can be or play however you want and still do well? Do other people care about defense?

they need to make toughness gear more effective.