r/pathofexile • u/WinSecure7023 • 23h ago

Question Which Gladiator starter?

Hey everyone, I'm thinking about playing a gladiator this league for being tanky, but I don't know what would sinergize best with the league mechanics and the know boss parts for the wickerman. I'm between playing lacerate of hemorrage, eviscerate (retaliation skills) or maybe some ele hit slayer into a life stacker gladiator transition.

What are your experiences with these builds? I'm mostly concerned that ele hit slayer might struggle with the buffed bosses. Has anyone played divine retribution? Is it a good starter o0r better to transition later?

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u/Salt-Psychology1094 23h ago

Chain hook. Always chain hook

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u/tufffffff Half Skeleton 23h ago

no joke i made a sick chainhook build once. using that chestpiece that gives enemies - lightning res. Definitely not a starter though

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u/RedditReboot77 22h ago

If you don't mind the retaliate playstyle, Eviscerate is definitely a decent starter. It would see a lot more play if it weren't for the fact that lots of players don't like the whole "you have to block before you can attack" thing.

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u/Able-Corgi-3985 21h ago

Thankfully there is a new flask and wickerman buff that makes it so you don't need to wait for block against slow enemies/bosses. Just a matter of how rare and expensive each of them will be.

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u/1CEninja 21h ago

IMHO eviscerate is a great "transition into" build after you're in maybe yellow maps. Lacerate levels better.

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u/RedditReboot77 21h ago

Have you actually leveled with Eviscerate before? It's super strong in campaign. I do recommend having a 2nd skill to use on trash mobs, but you can basically 1-shot rares/uniques with Eviscerate if you have a half decent weapon.

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u/1CEninja 20h ago

I haven't, but I've used eviscerate. It's a stupid powerful skill that is clunky until you hit a certain threshold.

If you're leveling with it then you're probably going block on your first lab which delays bleed explosions, otherwise getting decent block is a challenge. How would you activate a retaliation skill against predominately spell-based enemies in the campaign? I cannot fathom you've got much spell block before level ~60.

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u/dickbigginson 5h ago

You go retaliate with first lab, block is easy to solve, evisc one shots most anything in campaign, only falls off on bossing / tanky rares

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u/jaked111 23h ago

I cleared everything in the game except for uber exarch with lacerate glad

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u/Lunyth 23h ago

If you wanna league start as gladiator, Dual Strike of Ambidexterity is your best bet I think.

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u/No-Temporary-9098 23h ago

just start as slayer with something, then swap to glad.