Templar: the anti-Sorcerer

BugCollector

If there are some adjustments made to the Dawn's Wrath tree:

1. Sun Fire and Dark Flare get increased flight speed
2. Dark Flare gets a 20% chance to instant cast
3. Backlash gets a slight maximum damage increase

Now it's time for Templar caster vs Sorcerer!

Khivas_Carrick

1) Good god please.
2) No, it's already powerful enough in that it hits hard and can debuff the healing of a target. Instant cast would be a bit much since you can't exactly CC break a Maim.
3) I want to say no to this and instead propose a different change, in that once the damage cap has been met, the skill auto-detonates instead of having to wait it out, OR if you refresh it the previous one auto-detonates.

Khivas_Carrick

Or additionally to #3, change it so that Backlash also burns the target for a small amount of magic damage second to account for the wasted moments in between waiting for the detonation that your damage cap has been met.

C0pp3rhead

1) Yes, we've been asking for and promised this for months now (though I do love being able to cast Vampire's Bane 3 or 4 times before the first projectile reaches its enemy).
2) I like this idea, but I'm not sure what it would do to class balance. It would certainly help templar PvE dps, though it may be too OP for PvP.
3) The damage cap wouldn't be an issue if the ability auto-detonated upon reaching the damage cap.

Zsymon

Khivas_Carrick wrote: »

1) Good god please.
2) No, it's already powerful enough in that it hits hard and can debuff the healing of a target. Instant cast would be a bit much since you can't exactly CC break a Maim.
3) I want to say no to this and instead propose a different change, in that once the damage cap has been met, the skill auto-detonates instead of having to wait it out, OR if you refresh it the previous one auto-detonates.

Dark Flare doesn't cause Maim, it adds Major Defile. It is so powerful that no one ever uses it, there is no point in using Dark Flare in PvP or PvE, it is a horrible, horrible skill the way it works now. It is too slow, it has a massive arc anyone can see coming, it doesn't hit hard enough for having over a second of cast time that can be interrupted, and it has no CC.

Consider Crystal Frags, a "similar" skill.. it hits harder than Dark Flare, is cast instantly, has no arc, flies faster and has a 2 second knockdown. Compared to Crystal Frags, Dark Flare is an abomination of a skill. Even newbies quickly find out how useless this skill is and scrap it from their bars.

Khivas_Carrick

I knew that XD I just got my buff names mixed up, but ty. Also I'm not really a caster, yet I feel inclined to believe you

Mumnoch

Sorc's are all about burst with no sustain. In PVP until this is fixed Sorc's will always have the advantage because they can move about the battlefield using abilities that set themselves up for their burst. All you need to do is LOS them and keep shields up. There are ton's of video's out there showing how to kill Sorc's in PVP. Beefing up a kickass class like Templar isn't really the answer.

Crystal Frag's having their cast time removed, and their dmg increase reduced would be a better solution imo than these suggestions.

AriBoh

Counter to sorc is called Nirnhoned.

technohic

eclipse not being treated as CC and rather made cleansable rather than breakable so it can always be applied and the bomb going off reliably from unstable core and making the heal on the other one more reliable by also doing the heal when it gets removed would be great.