Hi everyone, previously I post my afk cws gladiator build, you can refer below links and thanks for your feedback, I got some question few times about is the build able do gruelling gauntlet, hence I record some game play. hope you like it.

P.S. I am not kind of pro player, more like brain dead chill play style and most of time I do other things when play this char.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vc-Cf8s9HQ

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1lrowgd/cws_gladiator_build_progress/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1lswwwb/afk_cws_gladiator_build_update_showcase/

To sharing the build guide at beginning my mindset is more like your already knew how to build cws chieftain and want to try gla, but I found there are people I had conversation in game or reddit, not really familiar with cws build.some people has ask about gem link, let me try to explain, indeed it's not really matter tbh.

my body armor link

eye of winter + dd scavenging + damaging link

You can choose whatever you want, you want a skill can have good coverage to spread flame wall and ED/contagion.

• damage is not from skill itself, you more care about flame wall and ed tooltip damage. (but in my build I believe EOW actually provide quite good poison dps)

• shaper weapon : cws + flame wall + ED + socketed gem support by control destruction + socketed gem deal 40% more spell damage which is enough to do afk gruelling gauntlet, that is all you need for damage.

There is not much difference unless you are going to scale ur dd damage(then you go fire, abandon poison), if your goal is somehow has a char can do afk ultimatum/inscribed to grind divines and fund other build, you don't have to worry about scale damage, it is already overkill.

If you do want scale dd scavenging damage, because the gem has -60% ailment penalty and 5-link, you may not want to scale "more" damage only ; inc dmg/dot multiplier/curse sometimes is more efficiency, you do need to run pob to make sure. if you are first time to try cws build, you just play and feel then you will know what's the pros and cons, for scaling you do need some experience.

below is an example cws build I made from Phrecia event,

https://pobb.in/Kk4vEmYoV4iJ

With mediocre budget, it can reach 2~3 mil per ignite from flame surge of combusting and 14mil from DD scavenging against lv83 ultimatum/inscribed(I put corpse hp=83000).but you don't have to.

My current gladiator dps from POB is around 1/10 compare to the scion one, and there is no issue to afk ultimatum. I just want to point out the dps is not the issue once you reach certain level and the bar is quite low, it is more about your coverage(area effect), how you deal with physical dot and regen.

• you counter phy dot via aspect of crab + endurance charges

• ED+contagion/shiphoning trap provide good regen, once you build your regen then swap to other gems.

hope you like it.