Bleed Gladiator in SSFHC - An open ended guide.

We utilize 2 6-Linked skills and 1 pseudo 6-Linked skill to accomplish silky smooth gameplay.


Lion's Roar enables us to push trash monsters around and most map bosses. Allowing us to do slightly more dps than crimson dance does at max stacks, instantly.


You Swap to a bow and apply Ensnaring Arrow's Debuff after you quake a boss that cannot be knocked back. This skill is resistant to Chris Wilson's anti snapshotting campaign and I'm on it's side. Even after you weapon swap the debuff stays on the target.

Primal Blisterlord Bulb provides very powerful crafts in SSF.
I recommend using Fortune Blossom and Horticrafting Blossom In SSF Conserve your uses of these plants by placing you T3s in a corner. Then you place the flower in a way that only the corner of it's buff AoE touches the corner where you have your T3 placed. This allows you to get 50+ bonuses out of your Influence flower instead of wasting them on unimportant plants.

If you want to minmax your garden around Blisterlord Bulb production keep reading. Firstly grow all your blue monster level 73+(76 will cover everything but not required) plants. Secondly only grow T2 purple and yellow plants that have primal energy requirements. This will allow you to continue building up your garden and energy stores without cutting into Blisterlord production.

Elder Scarabs can be reliably acquired by placing Korell Goya, Son of Stone in the Intervention Safehouse.

If you want to minmax your Investigations around scarabs keep reading.

You want to choose 2 and only 2 Masters for intervention. I prefer Vorici(for shaper scarabs) as my second.

When you subdue a master and are offered a choice it is important to choose correctly.

Relationships are represented by the green and red lines between masters on Show Investigation. When a choice is offered that results in an alliance or rivalry you create a line between the masters. This will allow a master to engage you on a jun mission outside their own safehouse.

We want the only relationships to be between Vorici and Korell. Other masters can have relationships with those 2 but nobody else. So do not choose to make a rivalry or friendship between others. All lines lead to either Korell or Vorici and Red is better than green.

When Korell>Vorici is present in an encounter outside intervention go to him first if he isn't 3 stars yet and execute if possible. If you cannot execute him read the options of each master and choose the best selection in line with your goal.

When a Master that isn't Korell or Vorici is present in an intervention encounter and is rank 3 you will interrogate them. Because it is an intervention encounter your will receive intelligence for intervention even though the master isn't from that safehouse.

If you are only given options that have a negative outcome click the icon near the bottom of the screen that has a little stickman running away.

Do not kill Katarina or safehouses other than intervention until you are finished collecting scarabs. I also refrain from gathering intelligence on other safehouses as not to lock them for a turn unless it grants me a relationship with Korell/Vorici. I want to preserve the ranks of other masters to maximize interrogation intelligence for Intervention.

After you have all your influence item you can use this strat to maximize any master in this way as you choose. I generally go with It That Fled >+ Whoever you want on Research. To upgrade Uul netol stones and hope for Surrender drop.

Maps With Area is Influenced by the Elder of high enough tier can be acquired from T14 bosses with a % chance based on your awakening leveling. You can also purchase them from Zana for a stiff price. So lube up and shell out for them.

Once you reach a depth that is monster level 83 you can receive ilvl 83 elder weapons from chests. Look for the delve nodes with little swords and pray to Chris Wilson.

Legion monoliths and Blight encounters can spawn chests and monsters that have a small chance to drop influenced items. Alva can have a legion monolith within the temple.