Guild Wars 2

What would you recommend as a dungeon build for a new level 80 Guardian? And what would be the type of armor I should aim for for that build?

I’m enjoying the AH Hammer build in the stickied thread and I’m running Pre/Vit/Heal.

It’s working wonders, and allows a lot of different types of gear.

AH builds work wonders for dungeon and I use mace and shield with increased symbol size and extra symbol healing and it’s great for keeping yourself and allies alive. I use Knights armour mixed with Berserker trinkets to maximise my DPS while maintaining good survivability.

I’m currently building the “Soldier Build”
It’s basically focused on Survival, and I still feel that I input a good amount of damage.
Basically you need armour, accessories and weapons with :
- Power/Vitality/Toughness (Preferably Exotic)
- Superior Runes of The Soldier x6 ( For Armour )
- Crest of the Soldier ( For Accessories )

The problem here is Soldier accessories are very hard to come by, especially the exotic pieces.
An Exotic Soldier Amulet ( for example ) can only be bought from WvWvW for about 496 Badges of Honour. This requires A LOT of farming WvWvW kills and jumping puzzles.

I feel this build is one of the best I’ve ever seen, and to complement it I use 0/0/30/30/10 traits.
Damage is not an issue due to all the power I get from the Gear, so i’de rather stack up survivability. ( Toughness + Vitality )

If you do get this full build, you should have 23k Health and 3.4k Armour, while using Food would boost you up to about 24k Health and 3.5k armour.

YOU CAN ABSORB A TON OF DAMAGE.