Category:Tactics

Gladiator - Guide By Riddaren

To begin, I will tell you how to use it as effective as possible. First of all, you will allways want full diamond gear. I usually go with a prot I stuff since it is not hard to get that, it's usually just with 1 enchantement point wich makes it much better(IMO) and can be the dif between life and death. As for a weapon, I suggest using a diamond sword with Sharp II+, I don't recommend knockback since you want to hurt the enemy fast. If yo like knockback, then a knockback I is the best, knockback II gets way to annoying.

The gear for the gladiator is kind of expensive, so if you are a smaller faction I suggest you choose another class, since full dia gear is not the cheapest. Iron gear works, but it is not even close as good as dia.

Bringin food is a important thing, since you will need to eat often since you allways want to regan health. Bringing a feather and some paper is also one of the best ways to stay alive. With paper you can heal yourself and when doing it, I have the paper next to my sword in the hot bar so I can easily switch between them. The feather comes 3d in the hotbar and food 4th. The feather comes usefull when chasing someone or trying to disorient someone.

There is 2 ways to use Haste, either you use it when you are chasing a fleeing person. Then it gives you a nice little speed boost so you can catch up with the fleeing person. You can also use it to become really fast in a CC and try to run around the person and hit him in the back, that will leave the enemy no chance in hitting you back, giving you a huge advantage. The other spell on the feather is the Haze spell, wich will make the person you use it on's screen to wobble. This is good when in CC or on Marksmen. I like to save it and use it on a Marksman, since that will make him not able to aim properly and that will make the marksman VERY vulernable. This suports your team aswell as it suports you.

When using the glad in pvp, don't get to hasty or think that you are invulernable. Even though you got diamond armor and can heal, doesn't mean that you can take on a 6v1. Try to avoid ArchMages and Marksmen, since as a gladiator, you wanna be moving as much as you can. A marksmans "Arrow to the knee" or a ArchMages "Cripple" will slow you down, wich can resault in death.

The best way to assault as a gladiator, is using Haste to run straight in to combat, trying to pick on 1v1s, don't chicken out if more persons attack you when doing it. If you just focus on moving and constant hitting the person you chose, will in 9/10 cases get you to kill the person and have a average health left, 3-4 hearts is enough to escape the others. Run away a bit, eat and use papers to heal, then go back in. Having a bard will help alot, with a streangth and regeneration buff the gladiator becomes pretty much invincible.

Now, to play against a gladiator, you will need to focus, and do pretty much the oposite of what I just wrote.

First of all, the best classes against Gladiators, is Scout, ArchMage and Marksman.

The Scout is good when the Gladiator is low on health. Even though the Scout class is not the best class, it have some good skills wich can become a living pain to the Gladiator. When trying to kait, it's really not fun to have a golden guy on drugs after you. With all the average skills, a scout can take down a damaged gladiator.(not a full HP Gladiator, though a maby 3-4 hearts.)

The Marksmens Arrow to the knee and Daze is the only thing dangerouse to the Gladiator. Daze makes the Gladiator vulernable and easy to kill, since the Gladiator have no real defence during the time it's dazed. Same with Arrow to the knee. When a Gladiator is kaiting and is slowed, he have a higher chance of going down, then when he is moving around normally. That means a Bard is good aswell. The bards chilling melody helps alot, though a Gladiator easily kills a Bard so it's not that effective.

The ArchMage is good, but only if the person using it is good. I suggest you read riwels guid on how to use it before trying this class, though a good ArchMage can be a threat to a Gladiator.

Now, to chose the Gladiator class, you need to have a few things. 1: You will need to have a good ammount of diamonds/diamond armor. The Gladiator is a expensive class, wich use diamond armor and you have to be able to afford that. The other thing you will want is a chicken farm(easily made with dispensers and eggs), a sugarcane farm for paper, and a pig/cow spawner or a big wheat farm for food.

To end the Gladiator, I just wanna say that you have to be at least average at CC, since this is not a range class. A bow is not the best weapon, since Gladiator use its brute force to kill people. Bringing a bow is allways good but I don't since that is for Marksmen.