Why Gladiator?

[Pexxithan]

I love me some Amazons. Oh wait. Serious answer?

I love to hit things. With Polearms. Really hard.
And as an added bonus, I can hit a lot of things at once. With Polearms. Really hard.





And live.

[Ambition]

I like gladiators because I have a thing for playing the gimp class.

Compared to their shield-wielding brethren, gladiators are a pathetic joke. We do less damage, have less survivability and bring little to nothing to the table for our party.

But I'll be damned if knocking people on their *** doesn't make me feel awesome.

[casdegere]

Not sure if its been said yet.

PVE.

A Glad with a sword and shield. Probably the best Armor class in game and most likely the highest HP as well. they will not outdamage other classes in this form, however they dont have to either. No other class will be able to stand toe to toe with a major mob boss as a Glad using a shield. This is where they will shine. This is where they really matter.

PVP Vs 1

Not going to do well at all no matter what. Almost every other class has it over on the fighter classes in straight 1 vs 1 PVP. The reasons are many.

PVP Group vs group

The role of the Fighter in a group PVP environment is actually very handy. They will keep the major ranged damage doers and healers running giving valuable time to get those heals off or focus on the nuker.

[Ambition]

Originally Posted by casdegere

A Glad with a sword and shield. Probably the best Armor class in game and most likely the highest HP as well. they will not outdamage other classes in this form, however they dont have to either. No other class will be able to stand toe to toe with a major mob boss as a Glad using a shield. This is where they will shine. This is where they really matter.

Wtf are you talking about. A glad with a sword and a shield has essentially NO advantage over a templar, and you will have considerably less HP than them as well.

[Danwan]

Was going Gladiator untill i tested Chanter. After that day i'll never go back =)

[Ambition]

I was considering chanter too but... For the sake of PVP videos, I kinda gave that up. It's basically between Templar and Gladiator.

[skuko]

yeah same here

[Tvar]

Originally Posted by Ambition

I like gladiators because I have a thing for playing the gimp class.

Compared to their shield-wielding brethren, gladiators are a pathetic joke. We do less damage, have less survivability and bring little to nothing to the table for our party.

But I'll be damned if knocking people on their *** doesn't make me feel awesome.

Since when did Gladiators do less dmg than Templars? Are you talking solo while grinding, in a group pvp or what?

[Ambition]

Originally Posted by Tvar

Since when did Gladiators do less dmg than Templars? Are you talking solo while grinding, in a group pvp or what?

In PVP, gladiator has less spike damage than templars, unfortunately. A templar is more likely to kill a target in a combo than a gladiator by quite a bit.

Soloing PVE... spike is worthless, gladiators have a lightly higher sustained damage, so no. Technically while grinding gladiator outDPSes a templar.

[Inambour]

Originally Posted by Ambition

In PVP, gladiator has less spike damage than templars, unfortunately. A templar is more likely to kill a target in a combo than a gladiator by quite a bit.

Get out of lvl 20 pvp please and enjoy gladiator chain burst/aoe.

[Lief]

Originally Posted by Unzeal

Hey there. Seeing ourself as the future Gladiators when the retail game is coming out in September. I just wanna know why YOU choose Gladiator.

Because we have big swords, and everyone knows the bigger the sword, the bigger the hands, and the bigger the hands the bigger the gloves, and you know what you can do with a big glove?

[Majorfalcon]

Originally Posted by Lief

Because we have big swords, and everyone knows the bigger the sword, the bigger the hands, and the bigger the hands the bigger the gloves, and you know what you can do with a big glove?

Haha full of win

I too have always been a plate dpser in MMO's. Was a fury warrior pre-BC WoW before I quit, don't know how they hold up now but my sustained dps always put me in the top 5 for BWL runs.

I also like being the jack-of-all-melee fighters. We buff up, charge in, lay down the law, save MT and group from bad pull, AoE the **** outta everything, put the beatdown on the enemy interfering, and live to see another day.

[Aedus]

Originally Posted by Ambition

In PVP, gladiator has less spike damage than templars, unfortunately. A templar is more likely to kill a target in a combo than a gladiator by quite a bit.

Soloing PVE... spike is worthless, gladiators have a lightly higher sustained damage, so no. Technically while grinding gladiator outDPSes a templar.

Maybe true, but Gladiator still knocks down which can destroy a healer, I couldn't count the times in CBT3 that my knockdown prevented a cleric/chanter from healing himself in time and in result died.

[Ando]

why glad? couse rest is no fun to me.
i tried every other class in cbt 3, but mostly i couldn't get myself to even reach lvl 10 so i could have seen the subclasses....

[Ambition]

Originally Posted by Aedus

Maybe true, but Gladiator still knocks down which can destroy a healer, I couldn't count the times in CBT3 that my knockdown prevented a cleric/chanter from healing himself in time and in result died.

Yeah. The knockdown is the gladiator's saving grace, as I said before. Without it they would truely be a worthless class.

Ankle Snare is not reason enough alone to play a class.