This build focuses on rapid multi-hit melee attacks to decimate enemies quickly while maintaining mobility. With diverse weapon choices, Gladiator gains significant attack speed and damage, making it easy to pressure elites and bosses during frantic waves.
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Score
95
Difficulty
hard
Why This Build Exists
This build emphasizes a distinct mix of versatile melee weapons instead of duplicating those used in previous builds, focusing on mobility and quick attacks.
Weapons
Provides a strong damage core while allowing the Gladiator to maintain distance with its extended range, enabling effective crowd control during elite waves.
Delivers high damage with excellent knockback potential, useful for keeping less powerful enemies at bay while blocking stronger foes.
Utilized for its rapid attack speed, allowing Gladiator to capitalize on the attack speed bonus and deal significant DPS to take down enemies in clusters.
Main Items
Greatly increases damage and attack speed, perfectly synergizing with the Gladiator's unique ability to gain attack speed from weapon variety.
Enhances survivability by adding dodge and potential healing, crucial in staying alive amidst high-pressure elite encounters.
Increases both life steal and HP regeneration, helping Gladiator sustain longer during the constant enemy waves we will face.
Offers additional melee damage while providing some armor, making Gladiator more durable while attacking rapidly.
Balanced life and damage consumption, maintaining survivability while ensuring consistent damage output during chaos.
Upgrade Focus
Critical for maximizing Gladiator's damage potential by allowing faster hit rates which compounds on existing speed bonuses.
Boosting health is essential to weathering damage from dense enemy waves, particularly with incoming boss pressure.
Increasing base melee damage ensures more effective clearing of enemies and bosses, particularly in high-pressure scenarios.
Early Game
Waves 1-7: Focus on picking up items that enhance max HP and melee damage while trying to buy any available weapons to diversify your attack style. Collect materials aggressively to prepare for more substantial upgrades.
Mid Game
Waves 8-15: Utilize your speed and attack combinations to maintain pressure on the hordes. Upgrading items that increase attack speed should take priority to ensure that Gladiator can clear out waves before they become overwhelming.
Late Game
Waves 16-20: Navigate carefully through higher enemy densities and utilize crowd control mechanics from the Hammer. Engage bosses strategically, dealing damage while staying agile among the incoming threats.
Build Reasoning
This build optimizes Gladiator's inherent attack speed mechanics by leveraging a range of effective melee weapons, ensuring smooth scaling and consistent damage output, particularly necessary for overcoming the challenges presented by Danger 5.
Why This Build Wins
Danger 5 Notes
Danger 5 introduces tougher enemies and dual bosses that will demand significant mobility. The pacing should be adapted to kite enemies effectively while dealing damage.
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