Bleed Bow is probably one of the most popular Gladiator builds out there. Great clearspeed with built-in "pop" effect because of Gladiator's explosive ascendancy. Good tankiness as you can stack armour, some block, and a lot of chaos resistance. If you need a good 3.14 starter build with fast speed, this PoE 3.14 Gladiator Bleed Split Arrow Starter Duelist may be enough for you.

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Pros & Cons

  • + cheap to start
  • + fast
  • + pretty damn tanky (leech, 40000 armour with Molten Shell, 80+ chaos resistance)
  • + can clear all content
  • + insane for Blight and good for Delve
  • + you shit on chaos damage
  • + can run without awakened gems
  • - Needs 185 dexterity which is a big gear issue later one.
  • - also needs a lot of intelligence if you plan to min-max with Enlighten lvl.4
  • - squishy in the beginning, till you get more ascendancy nodes, block and armour
  • - greatly relies on a good bow.
  • - Snipe is hard to use on fast/teleporting/moving bosses. Easy to miss. 

 

Skill Tree

Ascendancy: Blood in the eyes -> Gratuitous Violence -> Painforged -> Versatile Combatant

Bandit: Kill All

Pantheon: Arakaali and Ryslatha

Passive Tree & PoB

Path of Building Link: https://pastebin.com/77evt6Qc (COMMUNITY FORK)

 

 

 

 

Gems Setup

Main Skill

Weapon: Split Arrow - Chance to Bleed - Awakened Deadly Ailments - Brutality - Vicious Projectiles - Chain

Boot: Puncture - Brutality - Awakened Vicious Projectiles - Awakened Deadly Ailments

Aura

Clarity - Enlighten - War Banner - Pride

Ensnaring Arrow Totem

Flesh and Stone - Maim - Ensnaring Arrow - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Dash - Ballista Totem  (No need for 6L)

Other

Enduring Cry - Increased Duration - Vaal Molten Shell - Second Wind

 

Gear Setup

Helmet

Must be the Assailum if you can aford get one with a nice corrupt (+2 projectile gems)

Body armour

From uniques: Ambu's Charge, Kintsugi, Perfect Form, Belly of the Beast, Replica Farrul's Fur.

Replica Farrul is the best chest you can get for this build.

By using Less Duration gem in a Unset ring with crafted Aspect of the Cat you will have permanent Frenzy and Endurance charges as well as Onslaught. 

Rare armour:

Astral Plate
+12% to all Elemental Resistances
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+16% to Lightning Resistance
10% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Hit
Enemies you Kill Explode, dealing 3% of their Life as Physical Damage
Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers
+85 to maximum Life
8% increased maximum Life
6% increased maximum Mana

Explodey Chest with Frenzy on Hit. This is an expensive chest but this way you can get Frenzy charges and also boost clear speed.

Bow

Citadel Bow
Quality: +42%
Physical Damage: 164-432
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Attacks per Second: 1.38
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Adds 37 to 63 Physical Damage
+34% to Global Critical Strike Multiplier
60% chance for Bleeding inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage
Can have up to 3 Crafted Modifiers
123% increased Physical Damage
10% increased Attack Speed
+12% to Quality

The bow must have the mod "60% chance for Bleeding inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage" and 300+ pds

Quiver

Rearguard Broadhead Arrow Quiver
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24% Chance to Block Attack Damage
13% Chance to Block Spell Damage
+446 to Armour
20% increased Projectile Speed
50% increased Stun and Block Recovery
18% increased Projectile Damage

Unique

Gloves

The best craft is % to physical damage over time some life and resist

Boots

The best craft on it is "Bleeding you inflict deals damage % faster". Get some movespeed,resist, life on it too

Rings

Grants Level 20 Aspect of the Cat Skill
+92 to maximum Life
+51 to maximum Mana
+38% to Cold Resistance
Curse Enemies with Vulnerability on Hit, with 32% increased Effect
Adds 7 to 10 Physical Damage to Attacks

One ring must have vulnerability on hit. If you choose Replica Farrul's Fur as armour, Aspect of the Cat is required. Other good mod is "bleeding incresead damage and bleeding increased duration" and you can craft "+1 minimum frenzy charge" suffix.

Amulet

The best mod to get is To physical damage over time, life and some atributes(dex and int)

+24 to Dexterity and Intelligence
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+15% to Physical Damage over Time Multiplier
Adds 3 to 7 Physical Damage to Attacks
+85 to maximum Life
Regenerate 1.18% of Life per second
+1 to Minimum Frenzy Charges

About the node to allocates , if you fell you need more damage get the point Growth and Decay, also can get the point no Witness for elusive , is up to you.

Flasks

Flasks are mostly defense. Rumi is mandatory, one Jade Evasion Flask for Iron Reflexes, one quicksilver for movement. Important to have increased Armour and Evasion mods on them. 

 

The build uses a lot of Cluster jewels, too long to list, so check them in POB! 

 

Leveling

You can levleing almost entirely with Split arrow, puncture is not even needed. Just get Ensnaring Arrow at level 16 and link it with Ballista Totem Support for bosses

4L: Split Arrow - Chance to Bleed - Brutality - Pierce (or Chain). 

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For bows i recommend Silverbranch and then Silverbough as well as Replica Quill Rain
Later i used Infractem simply because it was cheapest 6L bow. If you can somehow get a 6L Lioneye's Glare that would be great.

For chests, Ambu's Charge is great cheap option, as well as Belly of Beast of cause.

For quiver i recommend Drillneck as it gives 50% increased damage with hits and ailments and gives pierce and lof of juice. After you get block ascendancy nodes you can switch to full block Rearguard.