Bladestorm is a new melee skill in 3.7. After a major change in the melee system that promotes poe 3.7, GGG demonstrates this new skill and naturally attracts many players.

This PoE 3.7 Bladestorm Duelist Gladiator Build guide make dual-wielding max block Gladiator with crazy cleer speed, good single target dps and survivability.

 

 

Quick Jump

 

Skill Tree 

Ascendancy

  • Arena Challenger: gives the build so much clear speed and dps and works great with the sand & blood skills.
  • Painforged: gives some nice block chance and increased damage
  • Versatile Combatant: this the one node which makes block gladiator so powerful. When you pick this one up your spell block rate will be equal to your attack block chance.
  • Violent Retaliation / Outmatched and Outlast: Violent Retaliation would gives more block and damage. Outmatched and Outlast would help with endurance and frenzy charges while mapping.

Bandits: kill them all or help Oak

Pantheons: Soul of Solaris, Soul of Gruthkul

Passive Tree & PoB

First rush either to the leech nodes in Duelist area ("Vitality Void") or to "Resolute Technique" and pick all the good stuff on the way. Then travel to the ranger area and pick up all stuff on the way. When you feel squishy get some life nodes... when you need more damage dps nodes. I guess later on you can spec out of Resolute Technique when you got enough accuracy.

Path of Building Link: https://pastebin.com/rCis0kxa

Cyclone, Impale Version: https://pastebin.com/vvBL0eWm

please be aware that all the dmg from impale is not shown in PoB

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Gems Setup

Main Skill

Directly at the start you get Perforate (available lvl 1) which you will use until you get Bladestorm (lvl 28) as main skill.

Perforate + Melee Physical Damage + Fortify + Multistrike + Rage + Pulverise / Brutality

Bladestorm + Melee Physical Damage + Fortify + Brutality + Rage + Pulverise

Cyclone + Melee Physical Damage + Fortify + Brutality + Rage + Pulverise

Movement

Flame Dash: very nice movement skill early on... works well without any supports

or

Leap Slam + Endurance Charge on hit

Cast When Damage Taken (low level)

CWDT (lvl 1) + Immortal Call (lvl 3) + Enfeeble (lvl 5)

Mana Reservation

Flesh & Stone: feels super strong for leveling

Blood & Sand: also nice for a little mana reservation

Pride: super strong for physical damage builds.

 

For leveling you also can use

War Banner: for a little extra dps

Herald of Purity: for dps and minions also take some hits for you

(War Banner and Herald of Purity I used for leveling. I dropped those two reservation skills for Pride)

Utility

Vaal Ancestral Warchief + Multiple Totems + Brutality + Melee Phy. Dmg

Vaal Haste

Venegenace / Riposte + Brutality + Melee Physical Damage

Summon Lightning / Stone Golem

Berserk (in Combination with Rage Support it is really strong to burst down bosses or help with hard encounters)

 

 

Gear

On gear look for

% Life

% Resistances

% Armour

% Block

% Physical Damage to Attacks

% Attack Speed

Weapons

Level 28: Lakishu's Blade

Level 62: Prismatic Eclipse

Level 58: Ichimonji

Rare Foil (weapon range:14, +300 phy. dps, +1,7aps, high crit)

Other uniques

Haemophilia gloves: this gloves are super strong for this build and help a lot with clear speed with bleed explosions and give good additional dps.

Belt of the Deceiver: is a nice cheap belt which offers defensive and offensive power.

Flasks

Life Flask: with anti-bleeding

Sulphur Flask: gives some nice dps and life regeneration

Silver Flask: for onslaught

Lion's Roar: gives crazy boost to dps and survivablity with knochback

Mana Flask (optional): just so you wont run out of mana in no regen maps.

Rumi'S Concoction: This Flask helps to max out your block chance and additionally gives a lot of armour.

 

For a more detailed selection of gear, please refer to the PoB Link. The gear selected in the PoB is not mandatory if it is not stated. It is recommended that the player check the affix of the gear and make a better choice