with A grade fast approaching i have started looking at the available A grade setups for a glad, and possible tat choices that would compliment my choice. I see 2 or 3 viable choices and they are as follows:
Attack Speed:
Tallum Heavey (+8% atk speed)
+4 kesh*kesh (+8% atk speed)
+4 dex -4 con
i think this could be good if used right. A glad would be able to get off allot of powerful skills in a short amount of time. I think this sounds like allot of fun, but kesh*kesh dosent have very good patk (284 at +4) i worry that i will sacrafice allot of dmg output.
Attack Power:
majestic heavy (+4% patk +2 str -2 con)
+4 Dama*Dama (acc +6)
+4 str -4 con
This would probably have the best patk of the sets, but you would have normal attack speed
Enduro Glad:
Nightmare Heavey set (-2dex +2 con 70% sleep hold resistance)
+4 Dama*kesh (+25% hp)
-2 str +2 con
i think this would be the best for pvp, especially since mages are ravaging all melee classes.
I understand that allot of it is personal preference, and it also depends on what i plan on doing (pvp, pve, both) Im just looking for ideas, i could have missed something totally, any help would be great.
OE'd sls+tsu is the way for pve.
+4str, +4dex... -8 con (ouch, ouch).
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PvP - healt weapon, -str +con.. -str sucks since your skill masteries at 77 are affect at str.. power to the nukers w/ free +INT!!
Theres a good Gladiator review thread lurking about some where which explains all A grade set ups. My personal preference is for PvP and PvE to go for Tallum heavy + Duel kesh, you dont lose much p atk and with the 16% extra speed you can charge up your focus force in no time at all, eliminating a gladiators biggest weakness. Never go for +dex tats, Dex is such a poor stat it hardly adds or removes anything. Try to edit your stats so as CON remains at 40 and dex around 28-30, then add what ever you can to STR without going below the stats stated for con/dex. For PvE i like to use a PL set as i can get up to 48-49 STR with it, which combined with crit B grade duals, i hit for massive damage dmg.
i have been seriously considering the tallum/kesh setup. But i cant help but notice that ther ie s 23 patk diff between dama*dama and kesh*kesh. I still think the +8% atk soeed with the +8% bonus from the tallum would help make up for this. But why not a dex tat? +4 dex is like having a permanent pot of alac. roughly +4 % attack speed. All of those percentages stack, so the +4 dex would = more attack speed when i got the +16% from a grade right? 400x.16 = 464, but 416(400+4%)x .16 = 482.56. Am i wrong here?
23 p atk? big wow thats absolutly nothing lol. You wont feel any difference what so ever. To increase ur dex by four, you'll need to kill another stats, and imo those other two stats are far more important. Leave dex alone thats a dagger/tank stat. -2 dex = a loss of 6 atk speed, dex is such a crappy stat. 16% atk speed is plenty, get a VR and your laughing in the face of every mob you see. And at level 61 i have no doubt in thinking you can afford to buy and spam alacrit 2 pots, so your speed should be great aswell as you'll have very good con and str still.