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 Power Dual Swords Vindicator

Vindicator Build Stats

Criterion	Value
Burst Damage	~48,7k
Sustained Damage	~39,3k
Effective Range (1200 = Maximum)	193
Actions Per Minute (APM)	50
Share of Forced Movement or Stealth Skills	14%
Bar Swaps per Minute (BPM)	5
# of Skills Used	11
Damage Log Link	Link
Damage Build Link	Link

Alliance Camp Build Stats

Criterion	Value
Burst Damage	~43,1k
Sustained Damage	~35,5k
Effective Range (1200 = Maximum)	483
Actions Per Minute (APM)	43
Share of Forced Movement or Stealth Skills	11%
Bar Swaps per Minute (BPM)	0
# of Skills Used	6
Damage Log Link	Link
Damage Build Link	Link

 Power  Vindicator is a very strong and straightforward damage build for instanced content. The iteration provided here uses Dual Swords, but it works in a similar way with Hammer and Greatsword too.  Vindicator also a great pick for solo gameplay, as it can provide itself with good amounts of the most essential offensive and defensive boons:  Quickness,  Protection,  Fury and  Might. Through its frequent Dodges, it can avoid a lot of incoming damage and therefore be quite survivable, even in damage gear.

Playstyle & Skills

Skill Type	Skills
Vindicator Skills
Dual Sword Skills
Hammer Skills
Utility Skills (Legendary Assassin Stance)
Utility Skills (Legendary Alliance Stance)

Dodge &  Tenacious Ruin

• On  Vindicator, your Dodge becomes an integral part of your damage rotation. Instead of diving into a specific direaction, it causes you to "jump" into the Mists and deal damage upon landing by default.
• With  Forerunner of Death, you gain 25% Strike damage done for 10 seconds whenever you Dodge. This is one of the strongest single damage modifiers in the game. It is therefore crucial to Dodge at least once every 10 seconds.
• That's not a problem though, because   Death Drop is great damage while providing that damage modifier.
• The Dodge requirement is reinforced by  Leviathan Strength, which increases your damage done when your Endurance is not full.

  Energy Meld

• Another part of the profession mechanics is   Energy Meld.
• By default, this grants you 25 Endurance for 10 Energy.
• In the damage rotation, we'll use  Reaver's Curse to reduce the cooldown of   Energy Meld and double the damage that our Dodges deal.
• In case you want to have extra Energy on demand, you can also make use of   Angsiyan's Trust. This removes the Energy cost and grants 25 Energy instead. This can be helpful if you want to use costly skills.

Rotation Concept

You can find my most recent rotation showcase here.
Damage Log

Section	Notes
General Stuff	The general rotation involves swapping between   Legendary Alliance Stance and   Legendary Assassin Stance and using a list of priority damage skills on cooldown.
Opener	For the opener, start in   Legendary Alliance Stance. Use   Energy Meld and   Spear of Archemorus.   Spear of Archemorus deals damage with a ~3 second delay, allowing you to precast it without entering combat immediately. Then Dodge right after to make use of the buff from  Reaver's Curse and to benefit from  Forerunner of Death and  Leviathan Strength immediately. Use   Shackling Wave,   Deathstrike and   Chilling Isolation. Swap to   Legendary Assassin Stance and activate   Impossible Odds.
Section 1:   Legendary Assassin Stance	In  Legendary Assassin Stance, you start with 50 Energy.   Impossible Odds will cost 5 Energy for its activation and then drain 1 point per second over a 10 second duration. You can thus spend ~35 energy in total. Always use   Chilling Isolation twice to maintain Relic of the Thief. This costs 10 Energy Additionally, you should spend Energy for the following skills:   Energy Meld,   Shackling Wave and   Deathstrike. You usually dont have enough energy to use all three of the skills listed before. It's not a big deal, just skip one of them and use it in   Legendary Alliance Stance later. Swap to   Legendary Alliance Stance as soon as it becomes available.
Section 2:   Legendary Alliance Stance	Legendary Alliance Stance is more liberal on Energy usage, as it does not include an Upkeep skill. Always start and end   Legendary Alliance Stance with   Spear of Archemorus. This is the strongest single skill on it and it has a ~10 second cooldown with  Alacrity, meaning you can only use it twice without delaying the rotation when you use it as the first skill. This will slightly delay the swap to   Legendary Assassin Stance. Use the same skills as listed before on cooldown. On top of those, you can use   Nomad's Advance twice and still have enough energy to use   Spear of Archemorus a second time towards the end. After the second cast of   Spear of Archemorus, repeat from  Legendary Assassin Stance.
CC Skills for Breakbar Damage	Depending on your secondary weapon: Staff:   Surge of the Mists Hammer:   Drop the Hammer Shortbow:   Scorchrazor   Reaver's Rage   Jade Winds - do not use, this is way too expensive.

DPS - Power Vindicator (Masel) - Rotation Flow

Section	Skills
Opener
Legendary Assassin Stance
Legendary Alliance
Legendary Assassin Stance
Legendary Alliance
Legendary Assassin Stance
Legendary Alliance
Legendary Assassin Stance
Legendary Alliance
Legendary Assassin Stance

DPS - Power Alliance Camp Vindicator (Masel) - Rotation Flow

Section	Skills
Opener
General Rotation

Gear & Traits

Important Stats in Hero Panel (descending in Importance):

1. At least 50% Critical Chance:  Fury together with  Roiling Mists give the remaining 50%.
2. Maximize Ferocity
3. Maximize Power

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Shoulders	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Chest	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Gloves	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Legs	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Boots	Berserker's	Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Berserker's
Ring 1	Berserker's
Ring 2	Berserker's
Accessory 1	Berserker's
Accessory 2	Berserker's
Backpack	Berserker's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Sword (Main Hand)	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Force
Sword (Off Hand)	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Air
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Damage	Ascended Food	Cilantro Lime Sous-Vide Steak
Damage	Non-Ascended Food	Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
Damage	Utility	Potent Superior Sharpening Stone
Survivability	Utility	Potion Of Karka Toughness
Damage	Relic	Relic of the Thief Relic of the Eagle
Survivability	Relic	Relic of Zakiros Relic of Rivers

Traits

Invocation
Devastation
Vindicator

• For a budget variant, simply replace all ascended armor pieces of Berserker's with rare/exotic Berserker's.
• Superior Rune of the Scholar and Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter are basically equivalent in terms of damage, use whichever you have or is cheaper.

Open World Build

Open World Build Summary

Criterion	Value
Burst Damage	~25,4k
Sustained Damage	~22,4k
Effective Range (1200 = Maximum)	227
Actions Per Minute (APM)	50
Share of Forced Movement or Stealth Skills	8%
Bar Swaps per Minute (BPM)	0
# of Skills Used	7
Open World Log Link	Link
Open World Build Link	Link

You can find my most recent open world build showcase here.

For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.

Increasing General Survivability

• For the vast majority of open world content, it is enough to slap on a Relic of Zakiros, swap to  Dance of Death in  Devastation and swap out   Legendary Assassin Stance for   Legendary Dwarf Stance:

1. Relic of Zakiros heals you passively based on your damage dealt.
2.  Dance of Death makes hits after applying  Vulnerability steal health via   Battle Scars, passively healing you. Dual Swords synergize very well with this trait, as they hit frequently and apply  Vulnerability on the auto attack chain and   Shackling Wave.
3.   Vengeful Hammers reduces all incoming damage by 20% while it is active, triggers   Battle Scars often and heals you every time it hits. This makes it priority number one in   Legendary Dwarf Stance. Generate   Battle Scars with Dodge, Auto Attacks or   Shackling Wave.
4.   Forced Engagement reduces damage taken from its targets by 33% and applies ~300 Defiance bar damage over its duration. That is very strong, dont underestimate this!
5.  Angsiyan's Trust gives you Endurance and Energy on demand via, which is great to sustain   Vengeful Hammers for longer or provide yourself and allies with stability via   Inspiring Reinforcement.

• Second, using Hammer can help avoid damage that you'd otherwise take by kiting at range. Especially with  Vassals of the Empire, losing the damage from the dodge isnt a big deal anyway.
• Hammer also removes the requirement to run to every mob in open world through its high range, allowing you to kill them from range. It does pretty good damage after the buffs to it. Both   Coalescence of Ruin and   Drop the Hammer are strong for damage!
• It has a short-cooldown Block (via  Aegis and Projectile blocking) with   Field of the Mists and a short-cooldown Evade with   Phase Smash.

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Berserker's	Superior Rune of Fireworks
Shoulders	Berserker's	Superior Rune of Fireworks
Chest	Berserker's	Superior Rune of Fireworks
Gloves	Berserker's	Superior Rune of Fireworks
Legs	Berserker's	Superior Rune of Fireworks
Boots	Berserker's	Superior Rune of Fireworks
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Berserker's
Ring 1	Berserker's
Ring 2	Berserker's
Accessory 1	Berserker's
Accessory 2	Berserker's
Backpack	Berserker's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Sword (Main Hand)	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Force
Sword (Off Hand)	Berserker's	Superior Sigil of Air
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Damage	Ascended Food	Cilantro Lime Sous-Vide Steak
Damage	Non-Ascended Food	Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppercorn-Crusted Sous-Vide Steak
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew
Damage	Utility	Potent Superior Sharpening Stone
Survivability	Utility	Potion Of Karka Toughness
Damage	Relic	Relic of the Thief Relic of the Eagle
Survivability	Relic	Relic of Zakiros Relic of Rivers

Traits

Invocation
Devastation
Vindicator

Boon Coverage

Boon Coverage

Criterion	Value	Notes
Might	18 Stacks
Fury	100%
Quickness	100%
Alacrity	0%
Protection	0%
Regeneration	0%
Vigor	0%
Aegis	0%
Stability	0 Stacks
Swiftness	0%
Resistance	0%
Resolution	0%
Vulnerability	18 Stacks

• If you want to acquire a good chunk of Boon duration at a relatively low damage tradeoff, you can swap in Devona's armor with Superior Rune of Fireworks on it, both are very cheap and give 25% Boon Duration in total.
•   Legendary Alliance Stance allows you to cover essential offensive boons quite easily:

1.   Selfish Spirit applies both  Might and  Vulnerability while healing you for a lot with a very short cooldown. Use this on cooldown, it is really strong!
2.   Nomad's Advance is a mobility skill that also applies additional  Might to you. Use it to cover ground.
3.   Scavenger Burst covers  Quickness and  Fury, especially in AoE scenarios. Prioritize using Energy for this when you're alone, it only has a 3 second cooldown! With  Incensed Response, you will grant additional  Might to yourself as well.

• As explained before,  Vassals of the Empire will cover a good uptime on  Protection as long as you keep dodging.
• I further like to use Relic of Evasion for full access to  Vigor, but it isn't required.
• If you don't want to spend the money for the relic, you can keep the Relic of the Thief and use Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew for close to the same effect. It is cheaper, but removes the ability to use other survivability food.
• If you can, make use of   Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge and   Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge give 150 additional Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage and Power as well as all boons aside from  Stability,  Resistance and  Resolution on entering combat, with a 90 second cooldown. The free stats are very nice to have, especially for harder open world content.
• In story instances (or if you don't want the hassle of reapplying protocols), you can abuse the synergy between Relic of the Cavalier and   Blast from the Skyscale to apply lots of  Aegis,  Resistance,  Might and  Quickness to yourself.   Blast places a damaging field, and the Boons apply on every hit of the damage field. Just mount up and press the engage skill right after to cast it instantly.

Dealing with Conditions and Control effects

•   Soothing Stone cleanses multiple conditions.
• You can also put on a Superior Sigil of Purity on another cheap exotic Berserker's weapon. Simply swap to that weapon when you encounter condition-heavy enemies.
•   Cleansing Channel cleanses 1 condition on every Legend swap, but costs a 10% damage modifier from   Rising Tide.
•   Inspiring Reinforcement gives pulsing  Stability to yourself and allies, allowing you to ignore incoming Control effects. Since it is expe
•   Reaver's Rage and   Rite of the Great Dwarf are your two Stun breaks. With  Contained Temper, you will gain 15 Energy back, making   Reaver's Rage free of charge and   Rite of the Great Dwarf cost 25 Energy .   Rite of the Great Dwarf is still pretty expensive, but also reduces incoming damage by 50% for 5 seconds.