PLEASE ADDRESS STAVES ON GLADIATOR BEFORE PATCH

You guys didn't give any love to staves especially with regards to Gladiator/bleed. I have the issue that Gladiator wants you to use a 2H weapon for bleed but then you don't give any synergy on the Gladiator ascendancy and no changes to staff nodes on the tree either such as more access to block or endurance charge generation or something like that.

So what is the point of gladiator? You're either giga block character that can't make good use of the bleed nodes or giga bleed character that can't make use of the block nodes. Send help.

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unstableafflictionxxx wrote:

You guys didn't give any love to staves especially with regards to Gladiator/bleed. I have the issue that Gladiator wants you to use a 2H weapon for bleed but then you don't give any synergy on the Gladiator ascendancy and no changes to staff nodes on the tree either such as more access to block or endurance charge generation or something like that.

So what is the point of gladiator? You're either giga block character that can't make good use of the bleed nodes or giga bleed character that can't make use of the block nodes. Send help.

actualy they did buff staff block chance nodes

"*The Whirling Barrier Notable Passive Skill now provides +8% Attack and Spell Block Chance while wielding a Staff (previously 6%). An additional Staff Block small passive has been added before it.
*The Enigmatic Reach Notable Passive Skill now provides +8% Spell Block Chance while wielding a Staff and 25% chance to gain a Power Charge when you Block Spell Damage, but no longer provides 10% increased Attack and Cast Speed. It now has an additional path consisting of two passives which provide +4% Spell Block Chance while wielding a Staff.
*The Enigmatic Defence Notable Passive Skill now provides +8% Attack and Spell Block Chance while wielding a Staff (previously 6%).
*The Safeguard Notable Passive Skill now provides +10% Spell Block Chance while holding a Staff or Shield (previously 6%) and now additionally grants +3% to maximum Spell Block Chance, but no longer grants +8% to Elemental Resistances.
*The Steelwood Stance Notable Passive Skill now provides +10% Attack Block Chance while wielding a Staff (previously 8%)"

but i do agree that gladiator weapon master and Determined Survivor skills not giving staff a usable buff is a huge mistake.

something as simple as adding to Determined Survivor skill: +15% to Spell Block Chance while wielding a Staff will do.

weapon master giving a buff to daggers but not to staffs is weird to say the least...