POE 3.8 Most Popular Gladiator Builds - Top 5 Friendly Budget

1. POE 3.8 Gladiator Build - Tornado Shot Crimson Blow Guide

INTRO:
This build capability a reasonably tanky and well-rounded character capable of tackling all the content material this game has to give. It utilizes a one of a kind mixture of Tornado Shot for map clear and two Siege Ballistas for single target damage, with bleed getting the major damaging mechanic. For the longest time bleed was inside a rough spot, a mechanic that could not be utilized as a standalone... but is it still the case? More than time, new and much more strong toys have been added to the game. Stronger ascendancies, influenced things, fossils, new crafting program. After anything, bleed finally became a force to be reckoned with.


PROS & CONS:
+ Good clear speed and single target
+ Quite tanky thanks to dodge, evasion, corpse removal and Purity Sentinels (bodyguards)
+ Bleedsplosion popcorn sound
+ Relatively cheap to get started
+ Decent but not great for beginners, SSF and league start
+ Almost hardcore viable, almost
- Requires few key items to really start rolling
- Siege Ballista might feel clunky/annoying
- End game gear is very expensive
- Only 5000 to 6000 life


ASCENDANCY:

1. Blood in the Eyes
2. Gratuitous Violence
3. Arena Challenger
4. Outmatch and Outlast


BANDITS: Oak or 2 passive points.


PANTHEON:
Major God - Soul of Lunaris
Minor God - Soul of Ryslatha


GEMS SETUP:
Main Skill (GGGRRR):
Tornado Shot - GMP - Chance To Bleed - Brutality - Deadly Ailments - Maim
Optional link: Swift Affliction instead of GMP

Single Target Setup (GGGRRB):
Siege Ballista - Chance To Bleed - Brutality - Deadly Ailments - Unbound Ailments - Swift Afflict

Cursing Setup (GGBR):
Frenzy - Greater Multiple Projectiles - Curse on Hit lvl 5 - Vulnerability

Guard Skill: Steelskin - Cast when Damage Taken (optional)

Aura: Grace OR Malevolence OR Pride - Enlighten (optional)

Temporary Aura: Vaal Grace - Increased Duration (optional)

Frenzy Generation: Blood Rage - Increased Duration (optional)


POB LINK: https://pastebin.com/AipcY01g
SKILL TREE:

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2. POE 3.8 Gladiator Build - Sunderman Fast Clearspeed, Labber Budget

INTRO:

Sunderman build is usually a mixture of easiness to play and having the ability to do many of the endgame stuff at a high-efficiency because it really is super quickly clearspeed. It's an all-round construct developed to perform your everyday stuff like mapping, delving, incursions, uber labs, betrayal, red elder and so forth. effectively. It's also super easy to manage, a total noob friendly build. Even when you haven't played Path of Exile prior to, and even any action RPG game just before, you'll have no troubles managing this create.

Make is primarily according to clearing huge packs of mobs both as quick and quick as you can, utilizing Leap and Sunder. Attack speed on everywhere achievable will make us travel fast with all the leap, then blast the entire screen with Sunder's huge aoe and Gladiator's bleed explosion combined. Our bleed explosions come from Gladiator's Gratuitous Violence ascendancy skill. Then Soul taker on offhand makes attack capabilities don't commit any mana which permits us to totally forget about what mana is as well as makes it possible for us to fill up our mana reserve with buffs. Also, we make use of the Vaal Ancestral Warchief for bosses/single targets.

PROS & CONS:

+ Fast Clearspeed 

+ Super EZ to run 

+ Can kill Atziri, Guardians, Red Elder, Shaper, Mastermind 

+ Cheap to get it up and running, not too expensive to meta

+ Top class Uber Lab runner 

+ Good league starter

+ Fun to play 

- More oriented to fast clearspeed than boss killing

- Going for easiness had its drawbacks

- Hard to kill Uber Elder and AUL

- Can’t run Physical Reflect maps

ASCENDANCY:

1. Blood in the Eyes

2. Gratuitous Violence

3. Arena Challenger

4. Outmatch and Outlast

BANDITS: Oak or 2 passive points.

PANTHEON:

Major God - Soul of Lunaris

Minor God - Soul of Ryslatha

GEMS SETUP:

Weapon 1

Leap Slam - Endurance Charge on Melee Stun - Faster Attacks

Weapon 2

Increased Duration - Blood Rage - Enhance

Helm

Hatred - Blood and Sand - Dread Banner - Arctic Armour

Body Armour

Sunder - Melee Physical Damage - Multistrike - Concentrated Effect - Ruthless - Fortify

Gloves

Ancestral Warchief - Melee Physical Damage - Maim - Bloodlust

Boots

Cast when Damage Taken - Immortal Call - Enfeeble - Increased Duration 

POB LINK: https://pastebin.com/kt7UasRF

SKILL TREE:

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3. POE 3.8 Gladiator Build  - Lazy Lacerator Max Block Friendly Guide

INTRO:

In Path of Exile Blight league. Do you hate moving out of stuff? Do you hate having to use Flasks? Do you like bleed damage? Then keep reading! I've designed this build to have enough tank to do all the content in the game if you're a bad player with an old PC like me. This build is the most popular Lacerate Gladiator Build. Bleedsplosions are a fun mechanic and the gear for the build is relatively cheap, but you can scale it as far as you want. 

3.8 Information

- Several bleed nodes were rebalanced

- Multistrike nerfed (doesn't impact Bleed DPS)

- DPS is the same as before even after the rebalance

Damage over Time Multiplier for Bleeds works even if you don't crit

- Jewels can now roll Physical Damage over Time Multiplier, it's very nice for us

- Blasphemers Grasp changed 

You can still use these and get as many Elder item bases as you can, it is annoying though ;)

PROS & CONS:

+ Beginner-friendly can be played in all leagues and very easy to gear.

+ Flasks are only situational, you don't need to get RSI to play this build.

+ Can be played with only 2 buttons, Leap Slam + Lacerate.

+ Don't need to constantly dodge everything; between Max Block, 5.5k+ hp and 7k armour you have a good amount of physical mitigation. Add-on Enfeeble, Molten Shell and healing on the block and you can tank most content.

- Not good for group play. Does ~1 mil dps, it is enough for solo content but not group play.

- Not a speed clear build. Lacerate is slow and even picking up a lot of attack speed from the tree it only gets near 3 attacks/sec. Of course, this is more than enough to maintain 8 stacks of bleed.

- Can't do Physical Reflect.

- PoB doesn't display correct DPS, you have to take your Bleed DPS and times it by 8.

ASCENDANCY:

1. Painforged

2. Versatile Combatant

3. Blood in the Eyes

4. Gratuitous Violence

BANDITS: Kill all.

PANTHEON:

Major God - Soul of Solaris

Minor God - Soul of Shakari

GEMS SETUP:

Weapon 1: CWDT(5) -> Tempest Shield(1) -> Summon Flame golem(7) - For bossing swap Summon Flame Golem for Vulnerability (21/0)

Weapon 2: CWDT(20) -> Enfeeble(6) -> Immortal Call(20/20) - Enfeeble is 6 because of Int requirements

Helmet: Portal -> Blood Rage(20) -> War Banner(20) -> Enhance(3)

Gloves: Leap Slam(20) -> Blood Magic(20) -> Fortify(20) -> Faster Attacks(20)

Boots: Reckoning(21) -> Life Gain on Hit(21), Herald of Purity(20), Pride(21/23)

Body Armour: Lacerate(21/20) -> Brutality(21/23) -> Multistrike(21/23) -> Melee Physical Damage(21/0) -> Deadly Ailments(21/23) -> Chance to Bleed(21/23) - Listed in order of importance

POB LINK: https://pastebin.com/FdwRG0uq

SKILL TREE: 

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4. POE 3.8 Gladiator Build - Dreamfeather Machine, Double Strike Fast Clearspeed Budget

INTRO:

Gladiator thanks to the bleed explosion, has an amazing game feeling, it is very rewarding. This is Bleed and a lot of damage comes from Bleed and his possession.  The main statistics of this build is Evasion, which we use both as a defense and as an offensive stat, thanks to the use of Dreamfeather Sword. Additionally, thanks to Perfect Form and Cold Resist stacking, we are able to pull out 50,000+ Evasion in HO and a lot come when Increased from the talent tree works in a fight. Originally, the build was made as Bleed Gladiator. After doing all the content I tried Champion and it turns out that Champion works perfectly with this build, which is pretty obvious because his tree is based on Evasion.

Gladiator also has a smaller entry threshold, it is easier at the beginning of the league on maps thanks to the explosion, it has a greater attack speed and movement speed which makes it a great mapper. The fact that it is bleed limited skills, Gladiator works well only with Lacerate and Double Strike after changes in 3.7 Lacerate denied Double, I do not see much sense to go in Double but if someone likes this skill it works great, only AoE or rather its lack only explosions keep it somehow. The further the content of bleed is in content, unfortunately, although it did not prevent me from doing all the content.

PROS & CONS:

+ Can do all content.

+ Budget for start.

+ Good survivability 

+ Solid clearspeed

+ Based on interesting and unusual mechanics

+ Great Lab Farmer 

+ Amazing feeling and the pleasure of playing

+ Possibility to choose a skill we like, build works with virtually any physical melee that can be used with a sword.

- Hard to Check real DPS 

- This is not a facetank, we have to be careful about the toughest contents.

- Reading the guide is very important. Items must be very carefully and carefully selected. It's easy to make the build work poorly when you pick items wrong.

-A lot of possibilities, it's hard sometimes to decide where to go. 

ASCENDANCY:

1. Blood in the  Eyes

2. Gratuitous Violence

3. Challenger Arena

4. Outmatch and Outlast

BANDITS: Kill them all.

PANTHEON:

Major God - Soul of Solaris

Minor God - Soul of Gruthkul

GEMS SETUP:

Weapon 1

Ancestral Protector - Blood Rage - Berserk

Weapon 2

Faster Attacks - Leap Slam - Blood Magic 

Body Armour

Rage - Ruthless - Brutality - Multistrike - Lacerate - Melee Physical Damage

Helm

Summon Flame Golem - Cast when Damage Taken - Immortal Call - Increased Duration 

Gloves

Arctic Armour - Blood and Sand - Vulnerability - Blasphemy

Boots

Maim - Enlighten - Flesh and Stone - Grace

POB LINK: https://pastebin.com/tR7L06t9 

SKILL TREE:

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5. POE 3.8 Gladiator Build - Reckoning Cyclone Strongest Budget

INTRO:

This build is just let them kill themselves! No need to press anything, not even the flasks! This is probably the craziest build I've done during the Legion. Expected to be a meme, but turned out to be super strong against everything. The reckoning has been there for a while, but it has never been as strong as it is now, with all melee and accuracy as well as flat damage buffs. 

Surrender shield gives level 30 Reckoning on an effective 4L. With current power creep, Level 30 Reckoning equals to just ~10 less damage if compared to a full 6L Reckoning. So we can use a 6L something else and it's... Cyclone. Cyclone does less damage, but still A LOT and more than enough to proc most content such as Legion, give Fortify, stack Rage and provide necessary movement to avoid danger.

PROS & CONS:

+ Insanely tanky

+ High damage against everything

+ Fast enough for mapping

+ Can do anything

+ Great league starter

+ Super cheap 

+ Even if both impale and cyclone will be nerfed it has no impact whatsoever.

+ can do Hall of the Grandmasters 

- Very small cyclone aoe, because this is not really a Cyclone build and it's UNARMED build as well.

- Need to watch chaos damage from time to time

ASCENDANCY:

1. Painforged

2. Versatile Combatant

3. Vilent Retaliation

4. Arena Challenger

BANDITS: Kill All.

PANTHEON:

Major God - Soul of Arakaali

Minor God - Soul of Shakari

GEMS SETUP:

Helm

Pride - Blood and Sand - Blood Rage - Herald of Purity

Body Armour

Impale - Cyclone - Melee Physical Damage - Rage - Brutality - Fortify

Offhand

Melee Physical Damage - Pulverise - Brutality

Weapon

Cast when Damage Taken - Phase Run - Summon Ice Golem - Tempest Shield

Boots

Molten Shell - Precision - Blood Magic - Ancestral Warchief

POB LINK: https://pastebin.com/KAPWqufU

SKILL TREE: 

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