"Raise your hand to the roaring crowd and pledge your allegiance to glory"

The Gladiator takes the hybrid nature of the Duelist a step further, with a combination of speed, power, and protection. This Ice Crash Build can do any boss in any map. Ice Crash attacks an area, converting some of your physical damage to cold damage. The damage is weaker further away from you. Ice Crash requires a sword, mace, axe or a staff, but can also be used while unarmed. More importantly, use this build can get hight DPS and endgame viable!

 

Pros & Cons

  • + Can be viable really fast with cheap items
  • + 75% block & Spell block with Rumi's concotion while in fight (50/50 in hideout)
  • + High regen (Mainly 830+ HP / sec, up to 1100+ with glove lab enchant)
  • + High physical mitigation (4% from node "Soul of Steel" + Arctic armor + 5/6 Enduring charges + 10% reduced from "Outmatch and outlast" in Ascendancy + Pantheon nodes while stationary)
  • + Can facetank almost everything
  • + Can do almost every map mod (Except elemental reflects)
  • + Can AFK in maps without problems 
  • + Can apply a 20% shock on a block for 4 seconds, works on bosses !
  • - Clear speed is not really good compared to fast builds, but it's okay
  • - Can't do elemental reflects
  • - Abyssus (negative effect countered well with all the physical mitigation + block)

 

Skill Tree

Ascendary

Painforged > Versatile Combatant > Outmatch and Outlast > Violent retaliation

Passive tree

- While leveling, get these nodes as fast as you can, in this order : Vitality Void > Iron Reflexes > Unwavering Stance > Resolute Technique. The rest is up to you, go for more DPS or more life depending on what you need the most.

 

Gems Setup

Weapon:

Block chances reduction

Blood Magic

Enfeeble

Shields:

Arctic Armor

Herald of Purity

Hatred

Helmets:

Shield charge

Fortify

Blood magic

Faster attacks

Gloves:

Cast when damage taken

Summon stone golem

Summon Holy Relic

Blood rage

Chest:

- Switch Elemental damage with attacks with Blood Magic for No leech maps
Ice crash

Melee physical damage

Elemental damage with attacks

Concentrated effect

Elemental focus

Cold penetration

Boots:

- Remove Reckoning on Physical reflects maps

Reckoning

Melee physical damaghe

Enduring Cry

Consecrated Path

 

Gear

Overview:

Info:

  • Your main stat for DPS will be the flat physical damage on rings & amulet
  • Considering you always have 5/6 endurance charges, you only need 85/89% resistances to reach the overcap
  • The Word of Light enchant on the facebreakers is really important, since it gives 6% life regen when you take a critical. You can farm it in normal lab, since the regen value is the same for every lab level
  • The 2% regen when hit enchant on boots is important. Uber lab only since the value decreases on lower lab versions.
  • The +1 Endurance Charge Meginord's Girdle is important, but a good stygian vise can be used for more dps and life
  • Feel free to use your own flasks setup

 

Jewels

Stat priorities :

  • % Max Life
  • % Chaos resistance
  • % attack speed
  • % damage
  • % elemental resistance to reach the overcap

 

Expectations

 

 

Boss Fights

This build can do any boss in any map, here is some main bosses :

- Normal atziri : Facetank, don't even move out of the AOEs. Remove your Reckoning, or you could OS yourself on the Reflect Atziri when she splits

- Normal atziri trio : Use rumi, facetank and remove bleed stacks if any

- Uber atziri : Split phase is a bit hard, the repeated spears can kill us on a bad combo (3 hits non blocked for example). Remove your Reckoning, or you could OS yourself on the Reflect Atziri when she splits

- Uber atziri trio : Kill the titty girl first, be careful with her projectile rain. When she is dead, facetank the other two

- Shaper : Always stick on sides of the arena, never on the center. Shield charge into the volatile vortexs to stack them, and everything should be okay

- Guardians : Nothing special, facetank them, just avoid Hydra's loaded bow shoot and phoenix one shot AOE

- Uber Izaro : Facetank him, even his slams

On all these bosses, be sure to maintain 6 endurance charges + Fortify ALL THE TIME.