I saw that they nerfed the shield on korean servers again because it was to strong. I remember shield charge had a shield bash for a flow guess that didnt work also. Seems like the shield is the biggest problem for the class. Drop the shield and Make piercing spear and it's flow better and you got an aggressive gladiator. Action packed and everything. There needs to be a better transition from charging thrust to piercing spear. Keep the flow shield activation on shield charge. Going this route actually gives gladiators a play style. Having to wait for the oppent to come and waste all their attacks before you can retaliate is not a play style its reactive. Its like you're black in a game of chess. You're already at a small disadvantage. And we already know charging after an oppent with charging thrust from the get go is worthless when they have all their evasive attacks, Super armors, faster attacks and evasions.

Some more game play of shieldless button gladiator. Shield gets activated only because of the flow of shield charge. When you take the shield button out the equation you see how slow and ineffective his attacks are.