Sword whip enigma (and if you say whispers, whispers).
Why enigma? You can recall from combat which is defensive. You can eat healing preps, including one that makes you regen like a mofo. You can plague mobs and whittle them down (slowing yourself or them as appropriate) -- whip spec helps ko them for this.
Being able to strip weapons also helps.
To give you and idea of the potential of this I had pole whip enigma maelstrom and when I screwed up in the silent tower treasure room I was able to kill the guardians: stripped their daggers, ate a prep to start me regenerating for a sustained period, plus some other healing preps and potions which I was getting unpacked as needed. Same build also killed the murder Druid of the day at the tree (I was a trib but not one who could take guards there).
You could replace sword with pole arm for charge set, but I'd probably take dexy sword over giants pole arm.