Path Of Exile Explosive Trap of Shrapnel

Path Of Exile 3.26 has been released for a while now, and you may have reached the endgame and started a long journey of currency and equipment farming, or you may still be exploring the main storyline and are still a long way from the end of the game.

You may want to build a secondary character and change your play style. Then you can try Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator build, which is a very violent melee build. Its advantages are its strong survivability and low equipment requirements. This is a very suitable build for single players.

Pros And Cons

Pros

Because Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator build has very high resistances and life steal, it makes it difficult for you to die throughout the campaign, and you can even fight against the boss face to face.

In terms of farming, this build also has excellent AOE. If you are on a normal difficulty map, you will see monsters fall like crops. In addition, Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator does not rely on high-level equipment, and can solve Expedition & Harvest without pressure.

Cons

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator build is not perfect. First, it requires you to operate frequently. Second, as a melee build, its movement is not very sensitive. And its survivability is very strong, but its damage is not high enough, especially when you are dealing with a boss, and its speed is very slow to kill bosses, and Gladiator may die sometimes, and Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator build performs averagely in Legion & Sanctum.

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator Build Skills

• Bladestorm: Maim Support, Momentum Support, Chance to Bleed Support.
• Crushing Fist: Expert Retaliation Support, Cast when Damage Taken Support, Vaal Molten Shell.
• Shield Charge: Chance to Bleed Support, Faster Attacks Support, Momentum Support.
• Eviscerate: Melee Physical Damage Support, Cruelty Support, Expert Retaliation Support, Brutality Support, Volatility Support.
• Pride: Eternal Blessing Support.
• Blood Rage: Flame Dash, Vulnerability.
• Vitality: No.

Here's how you get these skill gems:

• Bladestorm: Act 3 - Sever the Right Hand reward or trade with Clarissa
• Maim Support: Act 1 - The Caged Brute reward or trade with Nessa
• Momentum Support: Act 1 - Mercy Mission reward or trade with Nessa
• Crushing Fist: Act 1 - Breaking Some Eggs reward
• Expert Retaliation Support: Act 3 - A Fixture of Fate reward
• Shield Charge: Act 1 - Breaking Some Eggs reward
• Faster Attacks Support: Act 1 - The Caged Brute reward or trade with Yeena
• Eviscerate: Act 2 - Intruders in Black reward
• Melee Physical Damage Support: Act 4 - An Indomitable Spirit reward
• Cruelty Support: Act 2 - Sharp and Cruel reward
• Brutality Support: Act 4 - The Eternal Nightmare trade with Petarus and Vanja
• Volatility Support: Act 2 - Sharp and Cruel trade with Yeena
• Pride: Act 3 - Lost in Love reward
• Blood Rage: Act 2 - Intruders in Black reward or trade with Yeena
• Vulnerability: Act 3 - Lost in Love trade with Clarissa
• Vitality: Act 1 - The Caged Brute reward

The above are the skill gems and support gems you should have by the time you complete the entire campaign, as well. If you don’t have enough slots for Support skill gems, buy POE currency to get Jeweler’s Orbs. Since this build is not very weapon-dependent, skills are the most important part.

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator Flasks

Divine Life Flask: Used to reduce the duration of the curse effect

• Jade Flask: Used to increase armor
• Quartz Flask: Used to reduce the impact of the shock effect on you
• Sulphur Flask/ Blood Sap Tincture: Used to reduce the duration of the freeze effect or freeze
• Quicksilver Flask: Used to increase your movement speed during the effect

Flasks can improve your defense. You need to use PoE currency to change the suffix of the flask, but it is best not to use any modifiers that shorten the duration of the flask.

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator Weapons

• Early: Reaver Axe (Max hit damage)
• Mid-game: Jack, the Axe
• Late-game: High-quality rare axes

In terms of weapon selection, in the early stage, you need an axe with enough damage. You need to focus on maximum damage rather than attack speed. In the mid-game, if you have some Divine orbs, you can go to the market to exchange for a Jack, the Axe. This weapon provides life steal and damage for Gladiator.

Jack, the Axe’s damage is a bit lacking in the late game. You need to find a Reaver Axe with good affixes as a base and use your currency to upgrade it. It is best to prepare Deafening Essence of Contempt, Orb of Scouring and Exalted Orb. The affixes you need are attack speed and physical damage multiplier.

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator Armor

Armor is your most important source of physical resistance. When you reach the late game, your armor and dodge should be as high as possible. The second is to check your resistances and try to get them to the resistance cap.

The main affixes provided by Armor are dodge and armor value. You can give other defensive affixes to your rings and amulets.

The following affixes are useful to you:

• Increase physical damage over time multiplier
• Increase global physical damage
• Increase maximum health
• Increase damage
• Increase damage over time
• Increase bleeding damage
• Increase damage over time multiplier
• Increase chaos resistance
• Increase maximum fire/cold/lightning resistance

Eviscerate Bleed Gladiator build is not very complicated, each player can build according to the items they have, but the final tank level and damage limit will definitely be different.

Path Of Exile 3.26 adds recruitable mercenaries to the game. They can act as your followers, help you attract monsters’ hatred or act as DPS to clear monsters, provided that you can defeat them.

Although there are many mercenaries in the game, some of these mercenaries have auxiliary effect auras, and some have powerful output capabilities, but players can only recruit up to three of them, and can only choose one of them to fight with you, so choose the right mercenary for you. Players can change the equipment of these mercenaries and train them to upgrade them. After you reach the endgame, they can become your powerful helpers.

Manyshot

Stats: Dexterity

Skill Gems:

• Vaal Ice Shot
• Vaal Grace
• Frigid Fork Shot
• Mirror Arrow
• Grace
• Hatred

As a shooter, Manyshot mercenaries are not good at large-scale monster clearing, but they have two very useful auras, Grace and Hatred.

Hatred can retain 50% of the mana for each spell cast, and allows the player to convert part of the physical attack damage into cold damage. The latter additional effect may not be useful for all classes, and the former effect can allow you to release more skills.

Grace can increase the player’s dodge level, and since the monsters in Path of Exile are relatively powerful, this skill can improve the player’s survivability.

Bladecaster

Stats: Dexterity and Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Clutches of the Damned
• Ethereal Knives
• Bladefall of Trarthus
• Blade Vortex
• Grace
• Aspect of the Spider

Bladecaster is a flexible mercenary with certain damage capabilities. He has two skills that can move slightly, and his Grace aura can increase the dodge level, so he can flexibly shuttle in the battlefield, dodge attacks and attack enemies.

If you have enough POE currency, you can give him some powerful equipment, and he will become your reliable damage dealer.

Cruel Mistress

Stats: Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Despair
• Void Sphere
• Dark Pact
• Soulrend of Reaping
• Frostblink
• Zealotry

Cruel Mistress is both a powerful caster and a solid DPS buff. If your class is primarily based around Curse and Chaos, this mercenary is perfect for you.

Her Voltaxic Burst both deals with Lightning damage and slows enemies, while her Zealotry aura increases your spell power and spell critical chance, and her Despair aura reduces monster resistance to Chaos damage. In this type of game, reducing resistance is actually more effective than increasing your damage.

Fallen Reverend

Stats: Strength and Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Absolution
• Raise Spectre Of Transience
• Desecrate
• Reinforce: Fallen Bishop
• Zealotry
• Wrath

Fallen Reverend has two useful auras, a minion summoning skill, and a taunting Warcry, making him a pretty good taunt tank.

This makes many unique items that players don’t want to use useful again. You can give your Fallen Reverend these unique items with certain negative effects. For example, Sign Of The Sin Eater, this unique item can prevent elemental ailments. Or, Brinerot Flag, when the mercenary releases a Warcry, it can increase your mana regeneration.

In fact, mercenaries make these unpopular unique items valuable again. Even if you don’t use these unique items, you can trade them for POE Divine Orbs.

Eruptor

Stats: Strength

Skill Gems:

• Infernal Cry
• Volcanic Fissure Of Snaking
• Consecrated Path
• Molten Shell
• Determination
• Flamelink

Eruptor is a pure power mercenary, and its violence is beyond words. He can cause flaming mountain damage and stun enemies. His two auras can increase your armor and fire resistance, and he comes with high armor.

If you are willing to train him, he can almost clear a map by himself, and you just need to pick up currency and weapons behind him. But if you want him to clear monsters on advanced maps, you’d better equip him with a high-output two-handed weapon.

Flaming Charlatan

Stats: Strength and Intelligence

Skill Gems:

• Purifying Flame
• Meteor
• Scorching Ray Totem
• Holy Mortar
• Anger
• Herald Of Ash

Flaming Charlatan is similar to Fallen Reverend, but he is more of a fire caster. His skills can deal fire damage to enemies in a large area, and he also has multiple auras to assist you.

Flaming Charlatan can be used as a DPS and clear monsters, but if your build is mainly flame damage, you can cooperate with him better.

Kineticist

Stats: Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity

Skill Gems:

• Elemental Weakness
• Flame Wall
• Kinetic Bolt
• Kinetic Blast
• Haste
• Frostblink

Kineticist and Sanguimancer can adapt to three attributes, but Kineticist has more skills and richer elements, and three attributes also mean that Kineticist can choose unique items more freely.

Besides dealing elemental damage, Kineticist’s Elemental Weakness skill can reduce the enemy’s elemental resistance. This is a very powerful skill because it is not limited to a single element, which allows any builds that use elemental damage to benefit from it. There are very few builds that do not have any elemental damage.

There are many mercenaries, so don’t just recruit them when you see a mercenary with the “Infamous” modifier. Before you choose a mercenary, check in advance whether his skills can support you, and the best mercenaries are those that can cooperate with you.