Vindicator - Power Vindicator
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on February 09, 2025 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.
Overview
A power-based open world build for 
Vindicator. This build has very good burst damage, good aoe, and dodges very often. As a downside, it really lacks ranged damage.
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Skill Bar
Greatsword
Staff
Utility
Utility
Skill Variants
Do not replace . Shiro is great for damage but can be replaced if you really want to.
- - slightly lower damage but much higher defense and CC.
- - Usable in extrenely rare situations for its projectile block and condition cleanse.
Specializations
Equipment
Ascended gear is not required.
Head
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Greatsword
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Relic
- and are good alternatives.
- and are interchangeable.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
- Steak Ascended Food
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Usage
Damage
- This skill has few buff windows to pay attention to. Just dodge, kill things, and repeat.
- Dodge often to maintain the buff of .
- Killing an enemy refunds all your endurance thanks to .
- Generate
Quickness and endurance by spamming . - Use any time you have less than half your endurance.
Alliance Priority
- - for Quickness and endurance
- Fill with auto-attacks.
Assassin Priority
- Fill with auto-attacks.
Defense
- Do not swap to Saint Viktor's skills for defense as they come at a steep DPS cost and do very little for you.
- You will dodge extremely often in this build, letting you dodge many attacks.
- for a channeled block.
CC
This build features very little reliable CC. If extra CC is needed, it is recommended to use a United Legions Waystation EMP or to swap to Dwarf Stance.
- - 150-1350 depending on number of impacts
- - 300
Ratings
Dodge goes ungabunga. There's something oddly satisfying about squishing mobs just by falling on them. Vindi never stops pumping damage and it has great AoE to boot with fairly high sustain. I've been using this with minor tweaks since EoD for all the story content and metas.
I've been toying with this build a lot, and honestly it gets the job done fairly well, especially with the suggested sigil of stamina. If you chain your dodges well enough, considering you apply MASSIVE vunlerability, you can usually avoid a LOT of damage while cleaning up nicely.
This is currently one of my favorite open world build, between the decent sustain on Saint Viktor skills (I personally run some celestial for survivability), utility of Achemorus' abilities (that dash is no joke, even if it has a decent cost, on top of the aoe stun) plus the and massive potential to avoid damage between the Greatsword counter + dodge, it's very satisfying to play.
I honestly play with the traits here and there, but I never have felt the need to even go Retribution for survivability (although if you struggle, you could possibly swap Invocation for Retribution, as suggested, since I think Devastation brings much more damage to the table, it feels)
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