AION 2 Gladiator build guide sources

• Lunge Stance is the key stigma and goes to 20.
• Rage Burst sits at level 5 (only enough to enable Overhead Slam use); Wakayashi raises it to 20 in the no-Templar preset.
• Zikel's Blessing is slotted for personal/party damage.
• Zikel's Blessing level differs between sources. (Grobs: 10; Wakayashi's preset for parties with a Templar: 20.)
• Focused Block at 5 (two blocks in a row) to trigger Experienced Counterstrike.
• Fourth stigma slot choice. (Grobs: Focused Block in all setups; Wakayashi: Lifestealing Blade 15 when a Templar is in the party, Focused Block 5 only without one.)
• Keep two stigma presets: one for parties with a Templar, one without.
• Overhead Slam is the main damage skill and the first one to push to 16 or higher.
• Rending Blow is the second core skill, levelled to 16+ (also restores mana).
• Ruinous Blow is the third high-level damage skill (16 in Grobs, 20 target in Wakayashi).
• Target level for the top three skills: Wakayashi aims for 20 each. (Grobs' mid-game build and Sen Evades list 16; this may be a difference in game stage rather than a disagreement.)
• Keen Strike (basic attack) helps mana early; once mana holds, stop holding left-click and just use the macro.
• Sword Aura Rampage: whether to invest in it. (Grobs takes it to 16 with the all-cooldowns pick; Wakayashi leaves it at 8.)
• Leaping Slam's reset-on-kill pick is for open-world farming.
• Combat Speed is valued, through Daevanion board nodes.
• Spend early points on skill-level nodes of the core attacks (Overhead Slam, Rending, Ruinous, Keen Strike) plus Combat Speed nodes.
• Azphel (PvP board) is low priority for PvE; Grobs's 415-point plan leaves it empty.
• Macro is built around Rage Burst feeding Overhead Slam, with Ruinous Blow and Rending Blow on the same key(s).
• Experienced Counterstrike is the top passive.
• Attack Preparation, Murderous Burst and Impact Hit follow as priority passives.
• Always attack from the front; the buffs pay more on front attacks.

• Zikel's Blessing and Lunge Stance kept at max for both PvE and PvP (Korean server, which has 6 stigma slots and a level-25 cap).

The fourth stigma slot is where the guides split. Grobs keeps Focused Block in every setup, which with two blocks in a row triggers the Experienced Counterstrike passive. Wakayashi keeps two presets: Lifestealing Blade when a Templar is in the party, and Focused Block only without one. Lunge Stance at 20 and Zikel's Blessing for damage are common to both; how high Zikel's Blessing goes differs.

Sources marked Korean server are not checked on the global version. Two sources say global allows four stigma slots (see AION 2 builds), fewer than the Korean server, so a Korean stigma list may not fit as it is.

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