Gladiator

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

The Gladiator is an Ascendancy class for Duelists.

Overview

The Gladiator is both an offence and defence oriented class with a mixture of speed, power, and protection, revolving around bleed and block. The Gladiator Ascendancy offers support for blocking, counterattacks, lucky damage, dual wielding, Endurance and Frenzy charge bonuses, blind, bleed, maim, explode capabilities, and Stance bonuses. Furthermore, all of his minor passives grant increased attack speed, bolstering his offence.

Painforged allows the Gladiator to gain additional chance to block attack damage and makes counterattacks deal double damage. Reigning Veteran or Violent Retaliation grants you more defensive or offensive bonuses for more block investment respectively. Outmatch and Outlast provides Endurance and Frenzy charge bonuses, specifically themed around dual wielding. Blood in the Eyes and Gratuitous Violence amplify your bleeds significantly, enhancing its capabilities through auxiliary effects such as blind, maim, and explode. Arena Challenger revolves around Blood Stance and Sand Stance bonuses, encouraging you to use both the stances to utilise the power of this notable fully.

Passive skills

Minor skills

This class has the following minor passive skills:

Name	Stats
Attack Speed and One Handed Damage	4% increased Attack Speed 15% increased Damage with One Handed Weapons [1]
Attack Speed, Block Chance	+2% Chance to Block Attack Damage 4% increased Attack Speed [1] [2] [3]
Attack Speed, Movement Speed	4% increased Attack Speed 4% increased Movement Speed [1]
Attack Speed, Physical Damage	10% increased Physical Damage 4% increased Attack Speed [1] [2]

Notable skills

The class has the following notable passive skills:

Skill	Modifiers	Prerequisite	Preceding Passive
Painforged	+10% Chance to Block Attack Damage Cannot be Stunned by Hits you Block Your Counterattacks deal Double Damage		Attack Speed, Block Chance
Reigning Veteran	+10% to maximum Chance to Block Attack Damage +10 to Armour and Evasion Rating per 1% Chance to Block Attack Damage	Painforged	Attack Speed, Block Chance
Violent Retaliation	Attack Damage is Lucky if you've Blocked in the past 20 seconds Hits ignore Enemy Monster Physical Damage Reduction if you've Blocked in the past 20 seconds	Painforged	Attack Speed, Block Chance
Outmatch and Outlast	25% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on Kill with Main Hand 25% chance to gain an Endurance Charge on Kill with Off Hand 10% more Physical Damage while at maximum Frenzy Charges 10% reduced Physical Damage taken while at maximum Endurance Charges		Attack Speed and One Handed Damage
Blood in the Eyes	25% chance to Blind with Hits against Bleeding Enemies Attacks Maim on Hit against Bleeding Enemies Enemies Maimed by you take 10% increased Physical Damage Attacks have 50% chance to cause Bleeding		Attack Speed, Physical Damage
Gratuitous Violence	Bleeding Enemies you Kill Explode, dealing 10% of their Maximum Life as Physical Damage 20% more Physical Damage over Time	Blood in the Eyes	Attack Speed, Physical Damage
Arena Challenger	+10 to Maximum Challenger Charges 2% more Attack and Movement Speed per Challenger Charge 25% chance to gain a Challenger Charge when you Hit a Rare or Unique Enemy while in Blood Stance Gain a Challenger Charge when you Kill an Enemy while in Sand Stance		Attack Speed, Movement Speed

Version history

Version	Changes
3.16.0	Added a new notable, which replaces Versatile Combatant, that has +10% to maximum Block Chance, +10 to Armour and Evasion Rating per 1% Block Chance.
3.7.0	The small passives no longer grant 5% increased attack speed with one handed weapons, and instead now grant 4% increased attack speed (regardless of weapon type). Added a new Gladiator notable - Arena Challenger. The small passive leading to Arena Challenger grants 4% increased attack speed and 4% increased movement speed.
3.2.0	Swapped skill tree positions of Gratuitous Violence and Blood in the Eyes.

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