Endurance charge and gladiator changes

- Removed all physical taken as elemental mitigation apart from uniques
- Added elemental mitigation on endurance charge + multiples max elemental res on tree

3.15 : gladiator SST bleed meta (pob was 1M dmg early to 8M while having little to no defences)
3.16 : removed spell block equal to attack block
3.25 :
- gladiator easy 65/65 block
- chance to block lucky
- more bleeding damage
- stronger endurance charge
- double endurance charge generation on block nodes - on kill and on block
- new skills gems and supports gems
- quality on weapon is multiplicative
- pob 5M early scaling to 40M easily (and even 150M late expensive version) without sacrificing any defence just adding better gear

Removing every phys taken as. Now apart from endurance charge and armour, lightning coil and cloak of flame are stronger than ever. You are almost forced to get one of the two and try to get endurance charge if you dont have access to armour with your build, else your build is just worse than just playing a gladiator.

TLDR : i think that endurance charge and gladiator change are way overtuned. i feel forced to play gladiator because it seems way overtuned and can use the best of all the new changes.

lot of ppl sleep on this item :D especially nice with xibaqua jewel

Where is the PoB for this supposed insane build?

I find it rather hard to believe you achieve all that (and 150 million damage....) while being ACTUALLY tanky and not fake-tanky. Block isn't tank

And remove the 100% more damage ascendancy node right off the bat, because that will only happen if you are against uber bosses, and NOT dealing 40+ million damage lol.

I'm not a huge fan of Zizaran's builds, but his min/max'd bleed sst gladiator is barely breaking 6 million total damage with all buffs up, all settings set to best possible pinnacle boss setting. And its .... sorta tanky, but only while mapping juiced.

Yeah Doppelganger Guise is pretty nice forgot about it.

DPS =/= bleed damage

Probably should have typed the bleed dps and not bleed damage so people dont get confused and think its possible to do some magic damage with dot build when there is a cap. My bad i guess.

your numbers still make no sense, whatever this bleed damage vs bleed dps nonsense is you are talking about.

PoB dps is accurate...and there's no way you have a SST build dealing 150 million damage AND tanky. Or even coming remotely close to 150 million damage with no defenses either. Even the best of the best OG lightning SST when it was first introduced didn't reach damage numbers that high.

New gladiator is "tanky" in very much the way the old OG gladiator was tanky. Blocks are good, but have severe limitations. Especially in modern PoE where dot pools and ground effects and large single hits are king.

But that doesn't mean it isn't top tier again. It certainly is. Just don't go making up numbers and facts to illustrate a point that I already agree with...

So now the ascendancies who are heavily implied to have a theme of TANKINESS AGAINST PHYSICAL DAMAGE may actually fulfill that theme instead of some rogue/ranged archetype dancing around with "phys to ele" conversion gear and that same rogue/ranged archetype also has the best elemental (easy suppression cap) defences?

Good, that's how it should be. On an absurdity scale of 1 to 100 the defensive state of melee was a laughable 137. Maybe this will bring it back more to reality. On the other hand, you have a million things to manage and are now mana starved? Nah, this patch is one small step forward to melee on an incredibly long journey of further required changes. POE1 will be over soon and POE2 melee looks 100x worse.

People who think endgame POE1 melee is powerful for the average player must have never played a multitude of other ARPGs who have done melee way better.