[3.0] The Immortal Gladiator - Super Tanky Bulid For All Content, Updated with Uber Atziri Video

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Defensively, this build is focused on building up multiple layers of different defensive mechanics against potential threats, and as a result is well-suited for a wide variety of situations.

Block - Block is one of the strongest defensive mechanics in the game and is both the most important and the first line of our defenses. We make full use of it by choosing the gladiator ascendancy. We pick up a total of 34% block chance from jewels and passives, 13% of which comes from The Red Nightmare jewel (which provides block based on fire and all resistance nodes in range) socketed close to Marauder start. The resistance nodes are used for the dual purpose of increasing our armor too. We use The Surrender shield with 30% block chance to reach 64% chance to block. Whenever we're hit, the gladiator Painforged ascendancy passive provides an additional 8% block chance, and we also use a low level cast when damage taken setup linked to Tempest Shield to provide a 3% block chance buff, to reach the block cap of 75%. We pick up the gladiator Versatile Combatant passive to convert all of our block chance into spell block chance as well for 75%/75% block.

Armor - The effect of armor in Path of Exile is handled by a rather confusing formula (see wiki: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Armour) and armor is generally viewed as ineffective for most builds. However, with sufficient armor values, it is still a valuable defensive layer against physical hits. In this particular build, we make use of the interaction between The Formless Inferno (armor is increased by uncapped fire resistance), The Perfect Form (evasion is increased by uncapped cold resistance) and Iron Reflexes keystone passive (convert all evasion rating to armor), together with items that have high base armor/evasion values (The Surrender and Atziri's Steps) and high cold/fire resistances to efficiently reach effective levels of armor. We also make use of a granite flask (+3000 armor), a stibnite flask (+100% evasion rating, which is converted to armor by IR), and a sapphire flask (+50% cold resist, which is converted to armor by the Perfect Form) in our setup for a strong temporary boost when needed.

Physical Damage Reduction - Beyond armor, we also utilize a number of other methods to help mitigate against incoming physical damage. We make use of 1) Fortify (proc on shield charge) for 20% reduced damage taken from hits; 2) Arctic Armor (free buff thanks to The Perfect Form) for +13% less physical damage taken when stationary (we're always stationary when using blade flurry); 3) Up to 4 endurance charges (generated by The Red Nightmare) for 16% physical damage reduction; 4) 8% of physical damage taken as fire damage (The Formless Inferno); and 5) 20% of physical damage taken as cold damage (Taste of Hate) for a total of up to 69% reduced physical damage taken or converted before armor (77% with full Tukohama buff).

Spell Dodge - The Perfect Form provides us with the Phase Acrobatics keystone passive, which gives 30% spell dodge, and we supplement this with Atziri's Steps boots which provides an additional 16%. This means that, when we also consider our 75% spell block, on average approximately only 1 in 8 spells can get through our block/dodge and hit us. This also means that while for most builds resistances are the first and last line of defense against spell damage, it is not true for this build. As a result, we can safely run elemental weakness (we're heavily over-capped on fire and cold resistances regardless) and -max resist maps and barely notice any effects. Finally, we further boost our dodge by using a Vaal Grace gem, which when active allows us to reach the spell dodge cap of 75% and attack dodge chance of 34%.

Life Recovery - We make use of a variety of recovery effects to keep our life up when hits do reach us. In short, we use passive life regen (4.4% per second), life leech (2% of damage), Soul of Tukohama (up to 2% life regen), as well as the 250 life recovered on block on The Surrender. The Surrender also provides a level 30 Reckoning counterattack, which can proc every 0.4 seconds, to give us constant leech when we block. Finally, our Atziri's Promise flask also provides us with a temporary boost to our leech (and damage) when in use.

Blind - Blind is one of the strongest debuffs against monster attacks by providing us a 50%(!) chance to evade attacks. We make use of blind by using a stibnite flask, which creates a smoke cloud on use (blinds all nearby enemies), and by socketing Blind Support gem in our The Surrender. When the reckoning counter attack is triggered, it has a chance to blind all enemies within the area of effect.

With so much of our effort focused on creating multiple defensive layers, we must therefore be very efficient in how we generate our offense.

Varunastra - Enter Varunastra. This weapon has the unique property of "counts as all one handed melee weapon types", which allows us to pick up some extremely efficient passive nodes. When using Varunastra, the damage bonuses on the Deadly Dilettante and By the Blade passive clusters which normally affect different weapon types, are applied in full. This means that the single Deadly Dilettante node alone is giving us 72% increased damage. Because Varunastra counts as all weapon types, you can also use every type of one-hand attack skill available. I used Blade Flurry in this guide for it's nice balance of high damage and AoE clear, but other skills such as Sunder, Earthquake, Cyclone, Cleave etc can all be adopted. Furthermore, with Varunastra the user is free to use any movement skill as well (whirling blades, leap slam etc). Since we're already starved for passives points and mods on items, we pick up the Resolute Technique keystone passive to guarantee hits on all our attacks.

Belt of the Deceiver - Belt of the Deceiver provides us with everything we want in this build: life, resistances, physical damage, crit damage reduction, as well as the "nearby enemies are intimidated" mod. When monsters are intimidated, they take 10% increased damage from all sources. We deal a combination of physical, elemental and chaos damage thanks to our buffs and flasks, and most of the time this debuff alone would be a 10% multiplier on our overall damage.

Flasks - Flasks are an efficient and effective way of boosting damage in PoE when it's needed. We make use of 4 unique flasks, Witchfire Brew, Taste of Hate, Lion's Roar and Atziri's Promise, all of which help boost our damage output.

Culling Strike - We socket the Culling Strike support gem in our The Surrender to provide culling on Reckoning. Culling strike instantly kills any monster that is at 10% of max life or below, which can be a big damage boost against monsters with very high health such as Guardians, Shaper and Uber Izaro.

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