not to hijack the thread, but just wanted to add a cool and easy tip regarding the reuse of DS with WC.
if you are wearing tallum (which i think as a glad you should), try to get access to a dagger, low c grade will suffice just fine (no SA needed, but if you get SA risk haste, all the merrier, not needed but cool if you have it).
anyhow, when out hunting, switch to your dagger from your duals, hit DS, hit WC, switch back to your duals, and carry on...
your attack speed (with the dagger) PRIOR to hitting DS will be pretty high, once you hit DS, and then hit WC, the reuse time on both of the skills will be significantly lower, with zerk, haste2 (if you have Dance of Fury, the reuse time will shorten even more).
basically, this little trick combination will allow you to spam these two self buffs, (just like having a personal fury & warrior for you).
oh and Dash1 takes 2 charges, and Dash2 takes 3 charges. reuse again is pretty quick, depends on your attack speed PRIOR to activating this skill. duration of Dash1 & Dash2 is 15 seconds, duration of DS and WC is 1 minute.
enjoy, and hope i've helped. gladdy, a very FUN class to play indeed.
/regards
edit: the above combo can be used by making a single macro, this is what i do, you can try your own ways:
.your dagger in Hotbar 3, Slot 5
.DS in Hotbar 3, Slot 6
.WC in Hotbar 3, Slot 7
.your Duals in Hotbar 3, Slot 8
this way everything is in order and you can physically see the macro run. =)
You can use any weapon you want while you activate duelist spirit, however you only get the better benefits IF you're using your duals while its activated.
If you pop DS and keep using a different weapon you Wont get the increased atk.speed that it says you get. Its possible you get the extra pvp damage on the skills (you dont have to have duals for all your skills, only the high and hardhitting skills need duals) if you have a different weapon but i dont know for sure, never tested it.
Popping DS + Duals = higher attackspeed for DS duration (+ extra pvp dmg if you're pvping :p)
Popping DS + using different type weapon = no atk.speed effect (possible that you still get the extra pvp effect when using sonic blaster in pvp with 2handed blunt/blunts/sword-type weapons but i can't confirm)
Other than that mr lucyfur here above me had a good tip for keeping the warcry reuse timer as low as possible. I use tallum heavy(8% atk.speed) + dama*tall (8% atk.speed) so it doesn't matter much for DS for me. When you have zerk2 + gsap/haste2 it only takes a few seconds (10 seconds or so which isn't a big pain) after it faded before you can pop DS again.. with BD you can keep DS on constantly which in turn helps keeping WC reuse time a li'l lower... pof/cov renewal and all those goodies you can repop both DS and WC every 30 seconds or so, lol. If you go for a different setup its naturally gonna be different and only makes that tip even better
Ah ok.
I have not played a highlvl Gladi yet, so i'm quite newb to that ^^
Warlords have a similair selfbuff called "Thrill Fight" it increases our atk.spd. in general but instead of only be able to use it on our main weapon we get slower runspeed while in use.
I've got +4 dex, tallum, and haste duals on my gladi and I'm able to keep duelist spirit up almost indefinitely. There's a gap of a second or so between when it drops and when the skill is recharged.
I would love A grade dama*tallum +4 but their price is.. somewhat insane. I love Haste.
However I already have +4 str -4 con; adding +4dex -4con brings me on the brink of DE con without symbols... Pretty nasty maybe?
Yeah, my opinion... when i got duelist spirit lvl 2 i ditched the +dex tatoo i used to have (+4/-4con). The few and small changes the tatoo does isn't really worth it, especially not when you get duelist spirit. You want dex for atk.speed.. critrate is laughable (like 2-4 points or so, lol) and well.. thats what duelist spirit does for ya ^^ Might want dex to run faster.. but we still dont run fast enough so its not really worth it in that area either, lol.