Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, sorry in advance if this isn’t the right forum, but its you (players) helping me (player) or hopefully anyway XD. its just something i’ve noticed and don’t really know if it should be happening or not, basically, i run a lot of explore mode dungeons, and i’m a guardian with a tank build (gone for pure vitality/toughness to survive) however i seem to be doing just the opposite, i am always going down. I do have a lot of the aggro, a lot the time, so it might be that, but i just seem to be really fragile i can go down many times where as a mesmer from my guild who has little survival stats goes down almost never. i have heard that guardians have low HP but even so with full survival stats and all my skills focussed on defence i would have fought i’d survive a little longer.
P.S. sorry for the wall of text.

Even though you have a “tank” build, you cannot really recreate a classic MMO meat shield tank in GW2.

For two reasons:

1) Mobs do too much damage of varying types (i.e. bypass your build)

2) You don’t have a main healer keeping you up.

Tank builds are fine but never think you’re going to be able to “tank” in GW2 the way you did in other MMOs. You will still need to run, dodge, kite, trade agro, etc …

Some of my best “tanking” in GW2 has been done while kiting.

P.S. – The Guardian forums might be a place you’d get more in depth answers on how to play your Guardian.

It may help if you tell us more about what weapons you use and your build.