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Second, most characters can finish Aspirant difficulty, many can finish Challenger difficulty, only a selct few can finish Gladiator difficulty.
Gladiator difficulty is all about damage mitigation. You will be swarmed by elite mobs all the time, all with a lot of damage output, high mobility, and a lot of health. Wave 150 is where it can make all the difference, though, what combination of nemeses you get.
It is widely agreed that a shield is more or less necessary so as to be able to farm Gladiator difficulty reliably, so people came up with all kinds of spell caster/melee hybrids.
As to class choices, you are right that Soldier is always a good start because of the high physique bonuses and passive skills. Builds off the beaten path seem to thrive right now, especially after the nerfs to many popular builds from previous versions of the game.
also, crucible is (imo) much harder the campaign. i've played a lot more campaign than crucibe, so maybe i'm doing it wrong. i have a bunch of characters who finished the campaign on ultimate without much effort but can't even finish challenger crucible reliably.
you can probably farm aspirant. aspirant doesn't have a resistance penalty (same as normal/veteran campaign), so you can probably do that just fine without augments. but the aspirant rewards are a bit "meh". you only get like 1-2 legendaries per run on average.
you kinda need a toon who is already decked out in some serious endgame stuff before you can farm more stuff from challenger crucible reliably.
and gladiator... don't know. never even tried it. guess you have to be decked out in pretty much best in slot stuff and play one of the few viable gladiator builds to clear it even semi-reliably.
Also, I have *extremely* good results with a retaliation Warder. However, his ability to kill ranged and casters is questionable, so he's better in multiplayer (which benefits everyone from my taunts and tank ability). One solid positive is the fact that this build is very forgiving on gear, so you're good even if you don't have a stash full of amazing things waiting.
Only problem is, it takes longer time to kill enemies compared to high dps builds.
When fighting against very strong enemies like Rashalga, nemesis, and Mogdrogen, configure your keyboard keys with auto press, play in window mode, and go do something else like watching videos, reading books, etc.