Power Vindicator

Forerunner of Death narrows the landing area, makes it hit harder, and buffs your outgoing strike damage for a period after impact — so the slam is an opener, not a finisher. Leviathan Strength pays you damage the whole time your endurance is *not* full, which makes a spent endurance bar the correct place to live. Angsiyan's Trust funds that: it is pure economy, making Energy Meld — which grants endurance — cost no energy and give energy back in combat. Underneath, Devastation and Invocation are the same power core the Power Conduit runs: Unsuspecting Strikes, Brutality, Notoriety, Rising Tide, Roiling Mists.

Marauder and Berserker's — power, precision, ferocity, and vitality only where the Marauder pieces sit. Scholar is a flat power and ferocity rune with no defensive line and no health condition. Bloodlust and Fire are damage; Energy and Stamina are there because endurance is throughput on this build — Energy returns half your endurance on a weapon swap in combat, Stamina refills the bar on a kill, and each of those is another slam. Thief adds strike damage for hitting with weapon skills that cost a resource.

Your damage and your escape are the same bar. Leviathan Strength wants your endurance low and the slam spends it, so this build is at its best when nobody is looking at you and at its worst the moment they are. What you have left when they do is Reaver's Rage to break the stun, Riposting Shadows to shed movement conditions and get out, and the block on Imperial Guard — plus whatever Alliance Tactics gives you, since swapping the Alliance bar over to Saint Viktor puts Awakening and Battle Dance in your hands.

If you expect to be the focused target for the whole fight, Power Conduit is the steadier pick: its traits hand back endurance and health while it fights, instead of asking it to spend endurance to deal damage.