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Power attack can be used with pretty much any melee attack at any time. You could cleave, charge, vital strike, or AOO with it. You can leave it off and choose to activate it at any time, but then you CANNOT turn it off until next turn.
Cleave, charge, and vital strike are exclusive. Cleave and Vital strike require (separate) standard actions, and charge is a full round action.
What Beopere said.
Yes you get flanking bonus if it applies when you make your attack. If you charge to where you are flanking your target you get the +2 from charging and the +2 from flanking.
Power attack works on everything but Piranha Strike, so it stacks with Vital Strike and Cleave (the same apply for Greater/Improved versions of the feats).
Vital Strike doesn't stack with Cleave, Charge, and a lot of stuff.
You can still take a move action and use Power Attack + Vital Strike as a standard action.
And yes you get the bonus to hit if you flank at the end of charge.
Power attack can be used with pretty much any melee attack at any time. You could cleave, charge, vital strike, or AOO with it. You can leave it off and choose to activate it at any time, but then you CANNOT turn it off until next turn.
Cleave, charge, and vital strike are exclusive. Cleave and Vital strike require (separate) standard actions, and charge is a full round action.
If you were to Vital Strike + Power Attack, and you downed your opponent, and had Cleaving Finish, you would get a second attack. This attack would have the benefit (and penalty) of Power Attack, but would not carry with it the Vital Strike dice correct?
Indeed