Would like to talk about my glads with someone experienced

[weaw]

In my opinion, the first one, the third and the fifth are in need of extra stamina. Especially #1.
I would suggest to concentrate mainly on it for them. The first one also needs to eat some Chi.

Can't quite understand Your definition "Elaar Theatrics Female dual exotic swords". She uses both weapon types?

[J0dinsson]

Sorry about that, she is Elaar Theatrics Female and dual wields exotics. I do everything in my power to make the exotic weapons she uses have the sword appearance, like falchions or cutlasses. Mostly an aesthetic thing but i figured they had their own stats and hidden stats.

[weaw]

I do everything in my power to make the exotic weapons she uses have the sword appearance, like falchions or cutlasses. Mostly an aesthetic thing but i figured they had their own stats and hidden stats.

Falchion is a nice weapon. I like it too. But... falchion is a hard-to-use weapon.
It seems You need to concentrate now on Your first target: move all of Your gladiators into retirement.
It means "Use simple, but powerful things."
For Theatric having 87 Agi the simplest way is the way of speed. And the simplest weapon choice for a way of speed is a light weapon.

[J0dinsson]

So you're saying that I should just grab the weapons (when available) that have the stats I want to stack? Since I am just using exotics, any weapon should suffice.

[weaw]

So you're saying that I should just grab the weapons (when available) that have the stats I want to stack? Since I am just using exotics, any weapon should suffice.

No.
I can not speak for Adoede, but i can speak for myself:

1. You need understand the roles of Your gladiators. The "role" means behavior. Aggressive, defensive or, perhaps, both.
While the roles of Your Rages are obvious (a Rage has no choice except attack, though sometimes it may be "attack from the dodge"), but Your Theatrics/War have the choices of their roles.
2.When this choice done, You need to choose a way to implement it. It means weapon+skills.
For example, Theatrics are so flexible and can use some aggressive behavior using Falchion.
But i told You: It's hard. And You have another goal for now. It's the goal not for "aesthetic", but just for retirement. If You do these retirements, You'll get enough resources for aesthetic, fun and more... Again: The simplest way for Agi-like Theatrics is the way of speed, which (almost) means light (by weapon weight) and fast (by weapon speed). Like Claw.
3. When You done the choice of weapon/skills, You need to work on strategies. It will eat some time, lot of time, to be more correct.

And only then the answer to Your question: weapon/skills choice and related strategy are much more important than the stats. Even if You stack all the stat at 200 (it's impossible for now) You may get continuous losses, because of wrong strategy (or because of wrong weapon/skills for this strategy).

So:
1. Role.
2. Related weapon. Related skills.
3. Related strategy.
4. And only then: stacking related stats.

Again: Weapons and Armour