Gladiator — skills, stigmas and weapons

Gladiator: Knockdown and Stagger

An available skill rank and an eligible target state are separate checks. These three Global active skills show the difference between Knockdown, Stagger and damage to the Stagger Gauge. Open the same ranks in the planner to check their learning requirements.

Which skills refer to Knockdown?

Mocking Blade describes damaging a target within 4 m and inflicting Knockdown. Its duration is a variable shown as “…”; the description separately notes a change of animation against targets with Incapacitated Immunity. That statement does not establish that an immune target will be knocked down.

Overhead Slam requires a target afflicted with Knockdown within 4 m and increases Enmity. Its description separately lists a 7% trigger chance when attacking a target with Incapacitated Immunity. That figure concerns this trigger condition, not the chance to knock down any target. The description alone does not establish how often it will trigger during a fight.

Why gauge damage does not establish a target state

Sword Aura Rampage requires a target afflicted with Stagger within 4 m. The description gives a different condition from the Knockdown requirement of Overhead Slam. Keep these target-state conditions separate when reading the skill cards.

The description of Mocking Blade lists 15 Stagger Gauge Damage; Overhead Slam lists 5. These figures are not HP damage and do not confirm that Stagger has occurred. The gauge threshold, target conditions and status duration are not established here. HP damage contains variable values shown as “…”; these two gauge figures cannot rank the skills by DPS.

Planner example: level 14

Full setup cost: 15 mastery points; stigma shards: 0; superior stigmas: 0. The total includes every rank through the selected ranks and does not subtract ranks already learned. These are learning costs, not combat MP consumption.

1. At level 13, only rank 5 Sword Aura Rampage shows a warning: it requires level 14. The other two selected ranks already meet their character-level requirements.
2. At level 14, the warning clears. The planner does not check target state, immunity, range or the 7% trigger; check those conditions in the game.

Prepared with AI assistance from the Global snapshot identified above. This exercise helps with reading skill cards and checking ranks; it is not a tested combat rotation. Use separate regional records for TW. How ranks and costs are checked →