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[3.29] Vaal EarthQuake Gladiator - Bleed Walking Simulator for Everything

presentationDuelist
presentationGladiator
Starter
End Game
3.29 CotA
Updated on Jul 21, 2026
Jul 21, 2026

Path of Building Code

Build Overview

Love melee builds exile?! want to get up close and personal? But feeling too lazy to press buttons??

Then this is the perfect build for you! Using Vaal Earthquake, this build is an absolute walking simulator for mapping and even Bossing! Everything you touch will bleed and explode.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Off Meta
  • Very Tanky with Max Block
  • Walking Simulator
  • All Content Viable
  • SSF Friendly
  • Off Meta
  • Melee
  • Damage over time is deadly early game
  • If you Dont Block you Die! in early game

Build Variants

Act Progression has been from Act to Act

Equipment

Spiked Club
Iron Ring
Iron Gauntlets
Battered Helm
Chestplate
Rustic Sash
Jade Amulet
Iron Ring
Splintered Tower Shield
Steel Greaves
Large Life Flask
Large Mana Flask
Quicksilver Flask
Greater Life Flask
Medium Mana Flask

Most of the Gear is gonna be quite generic, so lets talk about the main things you should focus on for Act 1. This involves your Weapon, Amulet and Boots.

For Weapon look out for One Handed Mace or One Handed Axe.

The advantage of a One Handed Mace is its implicit that allows you to stun your targets much easily, this will come in handy for a Bleed Mastery that grants 50% chance to Aggravate Bleeding on targets you Stun with Attacks Hits . Look for one with as high physical damage as possible, since this is a bleed focused build, the elemental damage will have no effect, other then lightning damage with which you can sometimes inflict shock, increasing your damage.

If you find yourself lacking accuracy, which is bound to happen as you wont be taking any accuracy on tree for start. You can easily rectify this with dexterity on Amulet or any other gear. But the best option for this is Jade Amulet, which you can quite easily find at vendors.

Lastly every time you finish a quest check vendors for Boots, Sometimes you can find one with 10% movement speed.

Tip: If you are not able to find a suitable upgrade for your weapon and boots. Heres what you can do, For
weapon you can use this vendor recipe: Blacksmith Whetstone + Magic or Rare Rustic Sash +
Your Weapon, this will return you a weapon that has increased physical damage.

For Boots vendor aQuicksilver Flask + Any Boots + Orb of Augmentation, in return you will get
boots with 10% movement speed.

Passive Tree

main:
123
123
ascendancy:
8
8
Masteries
Bleeding Mastery (2)
50% chance to Aggravate Bleeding on targets you Stun with Attacks Hits
25% chance to Aggravate Bleeding on targets you Hit with Exerted Attacks

Rush Straight towards Wicked Blade, from left side of tree. Allocate the Bleed Mastery that grants 50% chance to Aggravate Bleeding on targets you Stun with Attacks Hits.

Then take Bloodletting, taking bleeding chance nodes along the way. Allocate the Bleed Mastery that grants 25% chance to Aggravate Bleeding on targets you Hit with Exerted Attacks.

Skills

Supple Battered Helm of the Pupil
Shield Charge
Lifetap
Faster Attacks
Hale Splintered Tower Shield
Ground Slam
Chance to Bleed
Ruthless
Chestplate
Vitality
Crushing Fist
Blood Talons
Iron Gauntlets
Intimidating Cry
Carrion Slippers
Steel Greaves
War Banner

Ground Slam will be your main skill for a while. So link it with Chance to Bleed Support and Ruthless Support.

For Auras equip War Banner and Vitality.

For Movement use Shield Charge, or Frostblink if you want even more mobility.

Intimidating Cry double damage does nothing to boost our bleed damage, but the exert it provides works well with Bleeding Mastery that grants 25% chance to Aggravate Bleeding on targets you Hit with Exerted Attacks.

Changelog

21st July: Published the Build Guide for Leveling.

Stats

Stats are displayed for the "Act 1" Variant only
Character
Attributes
85 / 
65 / 
45
Movement Speed
102%
Charges
Endurance Charges
3
Frenzy Charges
3
Power Charges
3
Defensive
Life
286
Energy Shield
0
Mana
164
Armour
197
Evasion Rating
46
Block
24%
Resistances
7% / 
14% / 
9% / 
0%
Simulated
Effective Health Pool
784
Max Hit
321 / 
308 / 
333 / 
314 / 
286
Skill DPS Estimation
Ground Slam
420

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