Guild Wars 2

Glyph of Storms complements staff ele nicely, and is very versatile. You have high DPS with fire attunement, aoe chill with water, and my favorite, aoe blind/ bleed with earth. Sandstorm is great for blinding mobs in PvE and will save your life on repeated occasions.
Plus, they buffed Storms in the last patch with longer duration.

Is there much viability to building tanky? I’ve been leveling with a lot of success on a bomb kit build, with raw Power as well as defensive specs. Will that be made obsolete by the time I get up to dungeons/ fractals?

I was personally disappointed by the golems. In PVE, I use Elite Elemental on my Human Elementalist, and the earth elemental is an incredible tank. I expected the same of the Asura’s defensive golem, but it just doesn’t cut it. Supply crate seems more useful, between the snare, the med kits, the burn damage, and the initial interrupt.
In WVW or PVP, your opponents may blow up golems and turrets, but they can’t destroy those handy med kits.