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6 Puncture Gladiator
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Herald of Path of exile currency Agony is a strange Herald, summoning a poisonous scorpion that deals absurd damage as virulence stacks increase. What makes this ability so powerful is how it requires nearly no gear to work properly, only requiring a six link to reach most of its potential. While 6 links can be hard to find or craft, a Tabula Rasa can suffice during leveling until you can afford to create or buy a 6 linked Bow or chest plate. Pathfinder is a good ascendency for this, granting poison proliferation and extra damage with this skill.
5 Kinetic Bolt Caster
Gladiators are typically associated with block-based effects and melee builds. It is possilbe to use them for Bow characters, however, potentially triumphing Ranger ascendencies for starting a new league with.
In this case, Puncture Gladiators are a fantastic ranged build for those who want to be defensive and still deal great damage. Puncture is a skill that bleeds targets for large amounts of damage, dealing even more damage if the target moves. Ensnaring arrow can then be used to force the additional moving damage to activate, allowing you to slay bosses with a few attacks. Gladiator also has some fantastic bleed-based nodes to make enemies explode and take additional bleed damage. It is a solid build that takes little currency to get going.
4 Blade Vortex With Blade Burst
A few new skills and support gems have been showed off for Delirium league, with one of the most interesting skills shown is Kinetic Bolt.
This ability fires a ricocheting bolt that will repeatedly fork, spawning additional projectiles and covering a larger radius. When combined with the new Spellslinger support gem, this skill can activate other spells every quarter of a second! You can teleport with Lightning Warp with nearly every cast, or spawn Arc lightning bolts to disintegrate foes. While this is hard to gauge its power before patch notes, this playstyle could buy POE currency be very powerful and make leveling a spellcaster easier than ever before.