Guild Wars 2

Hello young Guardian,

in my humble opinion, going full “Support”, “Tank” or whatever you call it is a bad idea. Remember, that your main goal in Dungeons is to kill stuff, and you are not really contributing to that goal, if you stand there “supporting”. The way I see it, every player has two main roles while being in a Dungeon-group: Damage and stying alive (‘cause dead people are no use to everybody). Now some people are better at staying alive than others (through dodging, experience, etc). That means they need to devote less gear to defense, and can devote more to damage. Supporting your Group with your unique Guardian-stuff is your third concern at best (wich doesn’t mean its unimportant). Also, you don’t need a specific spec to support your party. You got a lot of stuff in your arsenal that supports your group without spending a single trait point (to be honest, it’s hard to do anything as a guardian, without throwing at least one buff around in the process). If you want to further buff up your support, the Honor traitline offers some nice traits for that (for example 20% cooldownreduction for shouts, or buffing all allies with Might on a critical hit).

tl;dr:
Find your balance of damage and survivability and choose your support skills/traits based on the situation, rather than beeing a guy in plate armor who just stands back and buffs people.

That’s my opinion anyway…