Guild Wars 2

This is my ‘current’ build for my guardian: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNApeWl8ApdoVDxbI8DRBAAkTNYjrBA-TFiEAB5q+TOKxoS5htmgAwEjR7PgqSQS0HAA-w

I want to be a bunker/tanky/support guardian – basically unkillable. I don’t care about doing damage, as much as surviving harsh fights, and keeping allies alive.

1. What traits should I pick? I’m currently liking a meditation build, but if something is more preferable, I’ll try them out.

2. Sigils for weapons? I’m using water, life, and benevolence. What else are good choices?

3. Even if I don’t care for damage, would ~1500 power be enough to pressure opponents off of allies?

If you want to be near unkillable while still having healing abilities and no damage I’d go for something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWl8ApVo1CxZI0ENRCRk5cOmfhXHcdA-TViEABJ8AAoZ/Bw0F4o6PIoEcXlfAY+rhLBQzHBAyAwsAA-w

You can always swap out sentinel for nomad’s if you really want to as well.. you just lose hp and gain toughness, the amount of condi clear this can put out you could do that if you wanted. But keep in mind you’ll have even less damage pressure than sentinel (which is literally almost nothing.) so to answer question 3 no you will not be able to pressure anything, not even a full zerker ele. Your damage will be crap.

Also I chose hammer over mace because the spammable blast will do more healing than a mace and shield will if there’s waters, but if there is none then you can go mace/shield (then you will really, really have no damage pressure.) And it just has better utility overall (ring of warding is amazing and so is immobilize.)
Change retributive armor to VII if you go mace shield.

Another one you can go for if you want a bit more damage would be:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWl8ApVo1CxZI0ENRCRk5cOmfhXHcdA-TFyGABA8AAWZ/hr0FUo6P3pE8JlfEcJAI+IAQGAmFA-w
Can go soldier backpiece if don’t have celestial. Now your burn will hurt a bit more for pressure and you do slightly more damage. Still way overly tanky and bunker.

I suggest not going meditations as they have no support since they are the guardian’s selfish utilities. Shouts are much more party oriented and give support, whereas meditations just support yourself. Shouts are always the best support utilities along with consecrations. You can also get renewed focus and change elite focus to indomitable courage if you want more stability, or absolute resolution if you feel you don’t need extra stability (lots of guardians or something.) But book is very good for support now especially with the elite focus trait change.

There’s some other flexible changes you could make with gear too if you want, I’ll watch the thread if you have any questions about that… but I would stick with the trait choices as that’s very solid for wvw and surviving.

EDIT: I also wouldn’t recommend to use a build like this as full bunker is very outdated and guardians lean towards going damage now with getting support from shouts and blasts etc, (still tankiness from soldier gear though, you could never survive full zerker or something.) But you can obviously play what you want.

guardian with bunker mace/shield works but not alone need like 3/4 with the same build if u want to feel some tankiness.
Those build lack power at least 2k and even with 4k armor some builds will still hit 3-5k at will, while you dont do damage, and if u dont make damage target wont back off, for keeping allies alive, well guardian alone cant achieve that and there are better classes that can spam easilly waterfiels and blast them.

side note: basically unkillable does not exist on guardian gameplay, but meditation can achieve better results due blinds and more active game play than the pseudo bunker, but as Oxalis.3084 said they dont have support utilities, med guard support with they blind and blocks.

Basically I think you want to run Oxzlis’ second build. You can build the same thing in exotics with pvt armor and it only affects the numbers slightly.

I favour Indomitable Courage over Absolute Resolution, I guess it depends on the groups you run with and the foes you face.

I really like the Restoration Sigil in my staff. The personal healing it provides is really nice. I am not sure the Toughness Sigil is the one you want but its not a bad choice.