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    How To Build A Rage Gladiator- A Guide

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    There are essentially 3 main types of rage gladiators, predominantly defined by their weapon.

    -2H rage doesnt attack as often, but lands some pretty huge critical hits with their 2-handed weapons.
    -DW Speed rage attacks a lot with blades but they get less damage per hit.
    -DW Power rage attack with axes and maces and are in between the other 2 styles.

    Your base stats are pretty important. I would aim for the following.

    2H rage

    Strength >85 - responsible for damage and boosting most attack skills
    Chi >75 - responsible for making your crits bigger and boosts most attack skills
    Size >75 - responsible for giving you health. more is better. funny that :P

    DW Power Rage

    Strength >85 - responsible for damage and boosting most attack skills
    Chi >75 - responsible for making your crits bigger and boosts most attack skills
    Size >75 - responsible for giving you health. more is better. funny that :P

    DW Speed Rage

    Agility >85 - responsible for attacking lots and damage
    Strength or Chi >75 - Needed for most rage skills
    Size >75 - responsible for giving you health. more is better. funny that :P

    having your other stats above 70 is a plus, but if not, at least make sure most of them are over 65.

    now on to skills:

    Tier 1:

    Weapon Skill - Having a good weapon skill is key to fumbling it less and connecting with your opponent. 2H rage obviously takes 2 handed weapons. DW speed rage should go with swords and blades as those weapons are dependent on agility, and DW power rage should go with hammers and axes as those are strength based.

    Barreling Attack - Knocks your opponent to the ground. This puts them further back in initiative order which is always a good thing. It does no damage however and doesnt always work. I'd avoid it.

    Devastating Power - Passively boosts damage when you crit. I'm starting to become a big fan of this skill for 2H styles but the issue will be "what skill do I go without so I can have this?"

    Tier 2:

    Sunder Armor - activated attack that deals damage and reduces your opponent's armor on that spot. The latter means you can do more damage the next time you hit that spot.

    Blood Drunk - bonus to offensive power which means a better change of getting crits.

    Brute Force - passively reduces your opponent's defensive power, meaning it's easier to get good hits on them. It becomes very important at higher levels when warriors are carrying ridiculously heavy armor.

    Tier 3:

    Armor Agility - reduces initiative penalty your armor gives you and gives you a slightly better chance of deflecting your opponent's hits. It's pretty damn handy, especially for DW gladiators.

    Rampage - activated attack that does some massive damage. A must for any rage style.

    Adrenalin Rush - An activated attack that deals a little bit of damage and gives you ~60% damage resistance when the skill is maxed out. it's borderline OP. You know you want it

    Tier 4:

    Crippling Might - Activated attack that cannot be deflected/redirected by your opponent's defensive skills. The damage isnt crazy, but tt's kinda nice when it means your opponent has a wasted skill trigger from time to time.

    Heavy Scarring - Passive boost to your gladiator's armor. I like it because it is passive, but it isn't a must

    Annihilate - passive boost to your damage against gladiators using a tank or parry strategy at the time. At the very top of the game it's been the difference between beating a defensive gladiator or getting thumped. Overall, it seems pretty necessary in the current metagame.

    Tier 5:

    Total Carnage - Passively boosts your damage and when maxed out, the skill lets you get more attacks. This is now my favourite skill. A must for just about any rage IMO. Be warned that TC requires total commitment to the rage tree however as you cannot unlock it until you have 85 skill trains in rage already.


    so, there's a quick overview on the skills. regardless of build, there are a few key skills:

    Weapon Skill
    Brute Force
    Rampage
    Adrenalin Rush


    so, there's a quick summary on the rage skills. The next post is my proposed build path for a pure rage gladiator
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    Scale exponentially so having them at rank 10/10 will be significantly better. A glad with 10 maxed skills will outperform one with 11 skills at rank 9. When you're just starting off, I recommend the following path:

    Weapon - 10 (it may take a while, but it's singly the most important skill for your gladiator)

    This unlocks tier 2 so then I'd do the following:

    Brute Force - 8
    Sunder Armour - 8

    **If you have the patience, get these to rank 10 as it will free up more points to higher tier skills later on. If you dont have the patience, do what's below**

    Blood Drunk - 4 (DW styles)
    Devastating Power - 4 (2H)

    That will give you 30 skill points and access to tier 3.

    Rampage - 8
    Adrenalin Rush - 8
    Armor Agility - 5

    At that stage, you'll have 50 trains which is 5 short for tier 4. Going back to max out some skills (or just get to rank 9) can be handy. Recommended ones are below.

    Brute Force
    Adrenalin Rush
    Rampage

    You can be sneaky and put a dummy point into all your untrained rage skills (the ones that read 0/10) which will net you some skill points, but it isn't recommended as you have to use trophies to unlearn them later once Nate unlocks that feature again.

    Once you have 55 skill points in rage, tier 4 is available. You're pretty free to do whatever you like at this stage, but I recommend the following as a starting point.

    Crippling Might - 8
    Heavy Scarring - 8

    Then go back and start maxing out skills. Once you hit 90 trains in rage, you can unlock Total Carnage which is an amazing skill.

    Notes:

    - A generic pure bred rage build that does ok would be as follows:

    Weapon - 10
    Blood Drunk - 10*
    Sunder Armor - 10
    Brute Force - 10
    Armor Agility - 10
    Rampage - 10
    Adrenaline Rush - 10
    Crippling Might - 10
    Heavy Scarring - 10*
    Total Carnage - 10

    * not essential and can be swapped for other skills you may want.

    - You can also train up some more dummy skills, this time including War and Theatrics ones to speed up your access to the 100 skill point achievement which yields +250hp. If you want to get Total Carnage, DO NOT put skills into war or theatrics

    - All the above has been for a pure rage build. I personally have not experimented much outside of the Rage tree. It is viable to make a speed rage with Gratuitous Violence from the theatrics tree to get some crazy bleed rates, and get Death From Above on your 2H glads, but keep in mind that that causes you to sacrifice skills elsewhere.
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    OK, Time for strategy.

    you start with 3 attacks:

    Slash - blade weapons, so swords and daggers.
    Bash - 2H weapons as well as 1H maces and axes
    Lunge - lul wut?

    As you level up, you'll unlock other fight styles, specifically berserk and kill shot.

    Berserk - all out offense, giving more attacks and damage, but it tires you out quickly and gives no defense.

    Kill Shot - dealing huge blows. It doesnt tire you out as quickly and allows for huge hits and some defense, but dont expect to swing often.


    Early on, most fights are decided by who tires out first. As such, run your gladiator at 3 activity and 3 blood lust (3/3) and set your attack type to bash (2H), slash (DW swords) or bash (DW mace and axe)

    Personally, I ran 3/3 till lvl 10 then upped it to 4/4 till lvl 15, and 5/5 till lvl 20.

    I also set my 2H gladiators to 1/1 bash when really tired in the second strategy slot, which was changed to 3/3 killshot (once unlocked)

    Only once my gladiator reached at least lvl 8 in weapon skill do I start to use Berserk. Why not sooner? Because tiring yourself out when you only fumble sucks nuts. Be advised that berserk eats endurance, so wind down your activity and blood lust a little if you need.

    As you gain levels, feel free to up your activity and bloodlust. Just keep an eye on you endurance bar to gauge how fine a line you are running. If you start losing fights to exhaustion, add in some strategies that have lower activity and bloodlust that will trigger when you are tired.

    Also, this is just a guide line, so feel free to change it up how you like. I still highly recommend 3/3 basic attack for the early levels though

    next post: gear!
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    GEAR!!

    funnily enough, 2H ragers should have a 2H weapon and DW ragers are best off with a Broad swords or gladius as their goto. Daggers are viable later on if you are making a bleed build and utilizing the theatrics skill tree. If you are a DW rage, make sure to buy an offhand weapon to increase your damage output.

    You'll notice that at the blacksmith, most items give you stat boosts. Look for items that pump your main stats (as outlined in the 1st post) as well as attack power, which is awesome till about lvl 25. After lvl 30, look more into pumping your important stats opposed to attack power. This is especially important for 2H rage.

    Early on, around lvl 5, I suggest looking into getting a better main hand weapon. Dont worry too much about armor though. If you run DW rage, make sure you pick up an offhand weapon too to boost your damage output. Offhand weapons are recognised by saying "Offhand" in the description when you highlight them.

    As for armor, green armor is worth getting after lvl 10 or 15 as that's when you start getting decent stat boosts for your money. If you're a new player, your early gold should go towards stable upgrades instead. If you're established and have free money, I wont hold it against you if you decide to get green armor earlier :P

    Getting a Blue weapon early on can be really good. A lvl 10 blue weapon is equivalent to a lvl 15 green weapon (that 5 level buffer seems consistent all the way up the levels). I would not bother with upgrading to a blue suit of armor early on as it will become obsolete quickly and the stat boost wont be that significant. After lvl 30 when purple items are available, they certainly can boost your game, as can blue armor pieces.

    Anyway, that's a very brief overview on gear, and also concludes my guide on rage gladiators. Hope it helps
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    any questions, fire away. i probably forgot something, given it's 2am :P

    also, DW rage isnt my forte so if any of the top DW rage managers feel I have something wrong, please let me know :P


    lastly, can this get stickied?
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    Apoca1ype,

    Thank you for this comprehensive guide. Nice job!

    Nate and I have actually been discussing having some of the veteran players put together guides like this. Nice to see you beating us to the punch. Makes our job that much easier.

    This type of information is invaluable to new players and can save them loads of trial and error time.

    Thanks again,
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    I like it. Looks good. Might wanna add HOW exactly to proc. last stands ability to hit. eg : when i am very injured..... ect...

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    just got back from a weekend out of town. cheers for the sticky eric

    also, edited the last stand entry
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    i love these guides. helps me so much with making my new glads

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    glad it helps

    If there's anything you want clarity on etc, feel free to ask



    also, I should probably update this at some point now that I have more experience with DW rage
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