Gladiator End Game Builds

[Draven]

Nope, just have to grind out THM/CON to 48 each. Obviously not as powerful subbed... but not so sure I would spend all that time leveling them up just for that purpose, since they will be changing the armory/battle system very soon.

I was leveling other jobs just for their higher rank traits to use on GLA, but now that everything WILL be changing I'm just going to level up a job I actually want to.

Agreed.

I really don't recommend grinding out a class for specific high lvl traits/skills unless you actually want to play the class. Until I hear more about what they're going to do to the battle system, I'm satisfied I think with what I've leveled for Gladiator skills. They just did a players poll so hopefully we'll hear more on their plan soon.

[Rentahamster]

Agreed.

I really don't recommend grinding out a class for specific high lvl traits/skills unless you actually want to play the class. Until I hear more about what they're going to do to the battle system, I'm satisfied I think with what I've leveled for Gladiator skills. They just did a players poll so hopefully we'll hear more on their plan soon.

Well, it helps out a lot. I can solo very effectively with Sacrifice III on my Marauder, and once I get Cure III, I'll be pretty much unkillable as long as I have MP.

[DeadRiser]

Well, it helps out a lot. I can solo very effectively with Sacrifice III on my Marauder, and once I get Cure III, I'll be pretty much unkillable as long as I have MP.

And why would you wanna solo in a MMO? That word 'solo' should not be legally used in MMO's... I never understood that concept >.>

[Mavven]

And why would you wanna solo in a MMO? That word 'solo' should not be legally used in MMO's... I never understood that concept >.>

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you here. As many of us are from XI, not saying your not, many career RDM's took time out of their normal shell routine to "solo" things that other wise would require anywhere from 6-12 people, myself included. Part of this makes you better at your job in parties. If you can handle the stress of performing and maintaining timers and routines for a considerably longer time then normal, with normally 0 mistakes, it only makes things that much easier when you have help, it allows you to handle the what ifs and things that don't go as planned much better. More over, doing this providing means to gain gil/gear at a muster higher rate then by any other means for certain people. Could sale joytoy's , sky pops, sea torques, etc and make more money for less work then be other mediums. I'm not sure if you keep up with Kanican(Kaeko's) livejournal but hes sorta redefining how to solo as it relates to XIV. He recently pulled off a Dodore solo and believe got 2 wing drops and depending on your server that could ultimately be worth in excess of 20M+ for a simple 45 minute fight. Thing of how much time you would have to spend crafting to swing that. So imho there will always be a place for solo'n when it comes to MMO's, its an artform when performd at its best.

@ the OP , you arent by chance Dravin from Reflect are you ??

@ the acutal Post

LNC -

Invigorate - with all the stamina and other skills in your routine this is a nice way to boost your TP for those WS's. Also
Keen Flurry - dont know about you but I dont like missing in Battle Regimens, so more acc yes please. Could be the difference in a debuff landing.

CON - Roaming Soul - Good way to up your timer on Barbs, with affinity I believe you can stretch it out to 13 seconds. 19 If your on THM.

MRD - Maim, I believe if you can manage the TP gain this can be very useful in aiding in incaps as DD's are probably better off spamming their WS's when they can and stacking on your maim vs the other way around.

[wind]

Keen Flurry - dont know about you but I dont like missing in Battle Regimens, so more acc yes please. Could be the difference in a debuff landing.

If you're tanking I wouldn't suggest this at all. ACC is amazing I'll give you that, but when tanking you don't want to just be sitting there. As we all know, currently Regiments are clunky and while being involved in one you cannot do any other actions. So while you're waiting for your group to get your BR done you're potentially losing hate and if it works like XI, whereas you hit a cap and start decreasing, wasting time on this could potentially kill someone if they pull it off you due to your hate dropping.

-OP
Your build is decent for soloing or grinding I suppose but you're using so much AP on WS. If I recall correctly you had 4-5 different weapon skills listed and one of those was riot blade (5 points). Honestly outside of phalanxII and maybe 1 reaction WS's(fracture/jarring/feint), we only need 1 real WS(depends on fight, ie Incap WS's) unless you're short handed and you yourself need to be pumping out a lot of deeps.

As others mentioned atk+ modifiers(raging,ferocity), generate decent hate with zero stam cost which is a definite plus. I lean toward raging more then ferocity because of the 30sec CD.

Although missing is annoying apart from that, its not that detrimental to land your hit. Most of our hate comes from abilities not damage(aside from heavy stab/phalanx), so prioritizing DEX over STR(increase block dmg) I don't necessarily agree with.

Hadn't seen anyone mention it yet but accomplice(pug 30) is a nice lil hate boost also with a decent CD and can rotate it through your more damaging DD's / healing mages.

[Rentahamster]

And why would you wanna solo in a MMO? That word 'solo' should not be legally used in MMO's... I never understood that concept >.>

Because I don't need a party to kill pigs for hog hide when I'm rank 50? I want to keep all the drops to myself? I don't want to burden other people into spending time helping me if I don't need to?

If you're referring to grinding SP, 90% of my time has been in a party, thank you very much.