Power Amalgam

Symbiotic Synergy is pure offence — Evolve recharges your morph skills and morphs deal increased strike damage — and the Willing Host minor adds a damage buff for a duration after each one, so the tool belt is a rotation, not a panic button. Stainless Steel is the defensive pick: every stance (Plasmatic State, Flux State) and every Evolve converts conditions on you into boons, and it is the only condition answer the build carries. Silver Lining moves the strain bonuses onto the morph skills themselves rather than banking them into Evolve, which suits a build that presses morphs on cooldown. Explosives and Firearms are the flat power core: Glass Cannon wants you above its health threshold, Big Boomer wants the target below yours (and heals you when an explosion lands), High Caliber and No Scope only pay inside melee range — all of which asks you to be healthy and close in Berserker's gear.

Scholar is six lines of power and ferocity and not one point of defence, so every scrap of survivability comes from the prefix — that is the whole reason the Dragon's pieces are there, alongside the Barrier Hybrid Vigor gives you on each morph. Force on both sets is flat damage, Impact adds more against stunned or knocked-down foes (Thunderclap is your own source), and Bloodlust accrues power off kills. Thief stacks strike damage on every weapon skill with a recharge, so it wants you cycling hammer and Elixir Gun rather than autoattacking.

This build slots no Stability. Solid State is the Amalgam stance that grants it, and you are trading it away for Plasmatic State's damage — so a hammer build with no defensive stat is standing in the bomb with nothing to hold it there. It does have range and an exit (Elixir Gun is a ranged kit and Acid Bomb is a backward leap), but neither is a reason to bring it to a ranged trade or a fight where you will be the one focused. For the same power core with Superspeed and its own Stability, take the power build on the Scrapper hub.