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Build:W/Mo The Gladiator UW

The Gladiator UW is Warrior that use Gladiator's Defense as a defensive skill. When a foe attack you throught melee they lose health for each attack. He also use Bonetti's Defense as a Protection and regain is lost energy.

Equipment

 * Dreadnought's Armor or Knight's Armor.
 * +5 energy Axe or Sword of Fortitude

Usage
Carefully approach, and take the quest from the Lost Soul who should be in front of you.

If you accidentally aggro anything hit Sprint and run straight to the cliff wall behind you, this should break any aggro. If you attract a Dying Nightmare, back up and kill him with an axe.

Once the quest was taken, you should have noticed some monsters appear on your mini-map. They are Grasping Darknesses, so we need to lure and kill them to escape from the chamber.

So aggro the closest group, usually of about 4 Grasping’s. This will normally also aggro the Bladed Aatxe, so we hit sprint, and run straight to the back wall. Only the Graspings should follow.

Once lured, use Dolyak Signet, attack them with your sword (or axe) and cast Gladiator's Defense. When the elite finish, gain adrenaline to cast "Watch Yourself!". Then when Bonetti's Defense is ready, cast it and then use Healing Breeze ( if needed ). If you are about to die, use Bonetti's Defense and cast Healing Signet than Healing Breeze. Repeat until they are dead. The main problem with Grasping's are their interrupts and energy drain, both Balthazar's Spirit mostly counter the energy drain so use Bonetti's Defense ( if needed ). Once you have killed the 3 Groups of Graspings required for the quest, you can escape the chamber.

After escape you have to aim for smites. At smites just spamm all the skills except the running ones and to NOT attack them with your weapon or their skills shield of judgement will hurt you.

Note, Always try to keep "Watch Yourself!" on you because Dolyak Signet doesn't stay as long as the time to recharge it.

Counters
Aatxes.

The standard set-up of this build cannot handle, Coldfire Nights. However, Resilient Weapon can replace Sprint if you intend to farm them. Even with Resilient Weapon, they are very difficult to kill. Otherwise they should be avoided because once aggroed their spell Shard Storm will make it very hard to escape them, but its still possible if you evade their attacks and run to the beginning of smites.

Variants
You can replace Healing Signet for Defensive Stance for an extra armor bonus and evade.