Guild Wars 2

So I was working with a Sylvari tank-ish DPS build, but now I’m finding that, when I go on dungeon runs with my guild, I’m squishier than a week old banana. Here are the facts at hand:

I recently restated my traits which are now:
Valor (30): V, IV, XI
Honor (30): II, IX, XI
Virtue (10): II

My utilities are Hold the Line, Stand Your Ground, and Retreat/Save Your Self (depends the situation). Healing is Shelter and my elite is Renewed Focus.

Except for my trinkets which are Berserk/Ruby, my gear is all knight gear. To take advantage of my shouts, my armor is fully using Superior Runes of the Soldier. My weapon of preference is a greatsword (Sigil of Leeching) and my secondary is scepter (Sigil of Leeching) and shield (Sigil of Fire) though I’m tempted to go back to using a focus.

My major question is: Am I dressed for success? I trust that Knight gear is a safe pick for its high toughness (though that one seems to be a commonly debated subject from what I can see), but I’m getting the feeling my trinkets need to be more about keeping me alive than killing the enemy.

When i run dungeons with guildies i run an AH build too. After reading this paragraph i tweaked my armor a bit to waste a minor amount of attributes on zerker equipment.
As now, i run all zerker armor with the exception of helm and leggings (which are knight’s) and all zerker trinkets with the exception of rings (knight’s too) but i slotted runes of the warrior for a bit more vitality and 1 less second cd on swapping.
My weapons are all berserker and on the ones i use more (hammer and gs) i slotted might on swap sigil to gain the most out of my runes.

If you want to maximize the healing from AH, i suggest you to replace pure of voice with empowering might when conditions aren’t a problem.

Shimdroid.2765:

When i run dungeons with guildies i run an AH build too. After reading this paragraph i tweaked my armor a bit to waste a minor amount of attributes on zerker equipment.
As now, i run all zerker armor with the exception of helm and leggings (which are knight’s) and all zerker trinkets with the exception of rings (knight’s too) but i slotted runes of the warrior for a bit more vitality and 1 less second cd on swapping.
My weapons are all berserker and on the ones i use more (hammer and gs) i slotted might on swap sigil to gain the most out of my runes.

If you want to maximize the healing from AH, i suggest you to replace pure of voice with empowering might when conditions aren’t a problem.

DO NOT drop pure of voice, its by far the best trait we have for party support, and if you want max survivability youll want either soldiers or clerics (dont mix and match these 2), as for squishy-ness youll eventually learn to play more efficiently and youll find that soldiers or clerics is extreme overkill in the survivability department (when this happens its time to start replacing some of your armor with berserkers, ive started using full zerker and have no problem surviving any situation now)

Dunno what to say, other than learn to dodge and when to use Shelter. I don’t have trouble with dungeons and I have base armor and less than 14k health.