Guild Wars 2

Let me start by saying that I’m not really experienced in GW2 yet. I have leveled my character mainly by soloing and duoing with some friends and have only done 1 or 2 dungeons. Also I have done no PvP to speak of, but I don’t plan on doing that in the near future. I’m now slowly creeping towards 80 and I’m looking for some help with my build.

Mainly I look for a DPS build with some tanking ability. Most of the time I play with 3 friend who are a: guardian healer, elementelist DPS (or healer, depends if the guardian friend is playing) and a warrior DPS/tank. I don’t really want to be a full tank, cause it makes soloing basicly impossible.

This is the build I’m aiming now for: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mzcoMz0zMmnvammnvam0xxa0oaqoRMV

The reason I chose precision as main dmg stat because I kinda like the feel of it. Is this a viable build for PvE end game at all? I tried also tried a burning build, but didn’t really like the feel of it. Also I picked some healing skills to improve survivalibility.
Untill recently I fought with a greatsword, but at higher lvl I felt really squashy, so I switched over to sword/shield. Now I’m much better at surviving, but I find that I do very little dmg (might be my crappy gear though).
Gearwise I tend to focus on precision/crit dmg and toughness, in that order. Is this right? Or would you guys rather go for a power based build?

All help and feedback is appreciated, but please don’t judge me for being a noob, I know I am :-P

I find in Pve staf the best weapon for group events
for Dungeons / party pve
sword /focus
scepter combined with torch
i find shield more efficient in pvp

Sword/focus indeed looks interesting. Will try that as soon as I find a good focus.
Also, what is your preferred stat order. I read somewhere that you should just stack vit/tough untill end dungeons, but killing becomes really slow from this in my experience.