PoE 3.25 Best Gladiator Build - Path of Exile Lacerate Gladiator League Starter Guide

Thanks to the recent melee rework, the bleed builds are the strongest they have ever been. They didn't benefit from the ancestral totems before so raising the damage effectiveness of all skills across the board was much more impactful compared to regular hit builds. Are you looking for the best Gladiator build in Path of Exile? Read our PoE 3.25 Gladiator build guide, we'll break down the pros, gear, jewels, flasks and skills of this Lacerate Bleed Galaditor league starter.

PoE 3.25 Gladiator Build Guide - Best Bleed Lacerate Gladiator in Path of Exile Settlers

The bleed is an ailment that deals 350% of the base physical damage over its duration or three times as much against moving enemies. You can aggravate it to always deal with the full value even against stationary enemies. With the faster ailments, you can make it deal the same amount of damage in half the time. To aggravate the bleed, you can simply allocate the Gladiator ascendancy notable. Repeatedly hit bleeding enemies with fast attacks or use the Tempest Rising boots. You could also opt for the crimson dance keystone to inflict eight stacks of weaker bleed, but it is never worth taking for 99% setups. The Lacerate of Hemorrhage is the strongest skill for this archetype due to its initial massive boost to bleeding damage. Other skills are not that far behind in terms of damage and will often provide much better clear speed. You can also use your movement skills to kill weaker enemies and the gladiator's explosions will clear out the rest of the pack.

Lacerate Gladiator Build Pros & Cons

You will have a very wide variance of minimum and maximum damage, but only the highest instance of bleed will be accounted for your final damage. For the optimal DPS, you should keep applying new Stacks whenever possible but it only matters against bosses or particularly durable enemies. With the lucky chance, you will block 90% of hits. To reduce the damage from hits that get through your block, you should use endurance charges and fortify as well as a decent amount of maximum life. It is also fairly easy to implement spell suppression but it is needed only against Uber bosses or in hardcore environments. The Lacerate has bad area coverage but your blood explosions and fast movement speed will make up for it during clearing. The bleed damage has a great start but pushing over 10 million damage per second is very challenging which is quite fair considering the tanky nature of this archetype. This build is a great PoE 3.25 league starter with minimal gear requirements and lots of room for improvements as you amass more currency.

Lacerate Gladiator Build Gear

The build doesn't need any particular unique items but some of them provide more damage scaling potential than regular rare items, although you don't need them for functionality. There are also plenty of cheap uniques that provide excellent alternatives for rare gear on a lower budget.

Weapon - Jack, The Axe

Boots - The Tempest Rising

Ring - Venopuncture

Belt - Ryslatha's Coil

Lacerate Gladiator Build Jewels

Abyss Jewels: Look for ones with added physical damage, maximum life, and resistance modifiers to fill any empty Abyss sockets. Corrupt implicits that prevent corrupted blood would also be useful.

Medium Cluster Jewels: Either a specific Lacerate cluster or a generic physical damage over time cluster works. Good notables include Battle Hardened and Master of Fundamentals for Defense. Another good notable that boosts damage and defense is Student of Decay.

Large Cluster Jewels: The best ones focus on increasing physical damage over time multiplier through notables like Essence of Delirium. Getting additional frenzy charge generation through Swagger is also useful.

Lacerate Gladiator Build Flasks

Bleeding Tincture (life flask with Bleeding removal): This provides a huge damage boost but burns through mana quickly. Great for a single target.

Quartz Flask: With increased attack speed, this boosts clear speed while the bleed tincture is on cooldown.

Granite Flask: With increased armor rating, this helps improve overall defensive layered mitigations.

Quick Silver Flask: With increased movement speed, this is useful for dodging threats while clearing maps quickly between bleed tincture uses.

Lacerate Gladiator Build Skills

Main Skill: Lacerate (Melee Physical Damage, Brutality/Chance to Bleed, Volatile Deadly Ailments)

Movement Skill: Shield Charge (Faster Attacks, Fortify)

Aura: Pride (Increased AoE/Concentrated Effect)

Defense Layering: Determination or Flesh and Stone (Blood Stance)

Guard Skill: Molten Shell (Increased Duration, Iron Skin)

Curse: Vulnerability

Utility Skill: Herald of Purity