In group play, Gladiators make excellent main and off tanks even at low levels and can bring down groups of enemies, using their AoE attacks in conjunction with the high damage of a polearm. As such, there is little to no rest time between mobs and Gladiators can grind for long periods of time relying solely on a few healing skills or by using potions and treatments. Using the correct combo chains are essential to allowing them to do high damage while taking very little in return. In solo play, Gladiators can dispatch many mobs in succession as they are protected by the same heavy plate armor as Templars and also deal high damage, bringing down their targets quickly. This gives the Gladiator a chance to block and mitigate some damage, though this combination is rarely seen as Gladiators can tank most mobs or bosses just fine without the use of a shield. A Gladiator can also choose to wield a sword or mace and a shield if their plate armor alone will not suffice. While dual wielding does increase the Gladiator's single target dps, the Gladiator cannot use AoE skills without first equipping, or switching to, a two-handed weapon. Some Gladiators may opt to use a dual wield approach, wielding two one-handed weapons in each hand. Polearms are a 4-strike weapon which means for every attack the Gladiator is hitting the opponent up to 4 times in a swing.

Most Gladiators generally tend to use two-handed weapons such as greatswords or polearms, given that two-handed weapons are required for their AoE skills and have a chance to knockdown an enemy when dealing a critical strike. As the Gladiator is a hybrid tank/dps class they have many different types of weapons to choose from.

The Gladiator is the close range, AoE damage dealing class of Aion as it has more AoE skills than any other class. This class also has the widest variety of weapons available to them, being able to wield any physical weapon with the exception of the staff. As such, Gladiators can fill either the tanking or dps role in a group. The Gladiator is the weapons master of the Aion world and boasts excellent tanking and damage dealing capabilities.

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