Nah bro.

As we don't have any combat logs and I've still an old version of Combat Cloud I can't be certain.

Normally wispmothers should have their offensive arsenal entirely based on Frost Damage. That's possible as I don't see any damage done "numbers" on me during the fight with my old version of Combat Cloud. There's not entry for Frost damage in that version.

I made a ring with 675 Frost resist and it did seem to help mitigate some of her damage. Just a feeling as I don't have any numbers to back this out.

Wispmothers should also be completely immune to Frost damage but I haven't tested that. Fought her with shock glyph in staff during my tests.

Her main weakness against us Templars is that we can turn her strength against her by using and abusing Puncturing Sweep. The more stuff (wisp and mirrors) she spawns the more damage she will take while we'll be able to self heal. It's just a matter of stepping/jumping out of the red spots, keeping as many of her spawns in front of us. Side straffing and using mouse turning helps a lot too.

All damage done to her spawns will aslo damage her as they're not separed entities but part of her. At least how it should be and I think it works that way.

It's a very aggressive fight against wispmothers, melee actually, so I think you should enjoy it with a bit of practice.

jesterstear wrote: »

Finally, veteran zones are suddenly crowded. There's loads of players around and i'm having a hard time finding 3 mobs to fight without someone filibustering their way in.

When I took on the whispmother the other day after dying once, I couldn't find anyone to help. But yes, it's getting better. I ended up going it a second time solo and just ran up to her like the other poster above mentioned and spammed the heck out of puncturing sweep. I've got all light armor and mostly majika build and was able to take her down before she wore out my majika. was pretty intense though, the more you have in front of you while you spam the puncturing sweeps the more you get healed. There really isn't too much a templar can't solo with puncturing sweep and lots of majika IMO.

jesterstear wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3bBMgYWjE

Be honest, am I just terrible, or is my character just pathetic?

I know people don't usually start to QQ till VR6 or 7, but after 12 hours in game I have less gold than I did before the weekend (repairs) and i'm finding this tough going....

I've seen templars do very well. All thou to be fair, the game is new and not balanced. So some skills are worth slotting and others are not.

In your top post, state how much magica regen you have, your stats and what skills you use. I dont have time for movie sorry.

As long as you go with min 5 light and have pts in light armor, restro/destro staff prefered, use magica based ablities.. those are the key to be successful as well as having cc ablities. Thou it depends on what you want to do and how.

IceDread wrote: »

I've seen templars do very well. All thou to be fair, the game is new and not balanced. So some skills are worth slotting and others are not.

In your top post, state how much magica regen you have, your stats and what skills you use. I dont have time for movie sorry.

As long as you go with min 5 light and have pts in light armor, restro/destro staff prefered, use magica based ablities.. those are the key to be successful as well as having cc ablities. Thou it depends on what you want to do and how.

I made this thread a month ago, things have changed vastly since the last patch (I have not died once). Since you don't have time to read the post, here again is/was my build

All points in Health - 2350 or so
About 1200 Magika and Stamina
Health, Magicka and Stamina are just into softcap (thanks to passives and one regen jewellery piece for each primary stat slotted).
Amour is 5 Light (Warlock set) 2 Heavy. Softcaps when Ransack used.

Main 4 skills were ransack, honour the dead, repentance, degeneration.

I wanted to be a heavy armour tank with some offhealing capability. I'd heard bad things about Templar DPS skills so avoided Aedric Spear and Dawn's Wrath, the skills i'd chosen fitted in with my low-magic concept for the character - low cost, sustaining, no flashy effects, low damage.

I was quite happy to mostly defeat enemies with light and heavy attacks if the buffs, hots and dots would sustain me,.

The problem is, they didn't. The main problem was Honor the Dead being broken, which severely impacted my survivability. Defence all round is borked however. Having the patience to take longer to kill mobs should reward you with more safety, but in this game it does not. Also, the sword and shield line is awful. It adds a little to your defence, which is important tanking a group instance, but you give up so much healing, power restoration, CC, and interrupts to equip it and are forced to stand in melee.

As I levelled up, I continued spending points in passives to upgrade these skills, but eventually reached a point where I had bought every upgrade and they were still too weak, and I had no skill points left to take a punt on a new skill line nor enough cash after all the deaths and soul gems, to afford a respec.

It's much harder to avoid cast spells that move towards you , like heat wave , that little frost tornado, up close than at range, where you can easily strafe to one side at walking pace. Theoretically, you can interrupt these, but that uses stamina and you have less time to react. With multiple mobs interrupting one at a time is not on, mobs other than your target can get in the way, and stamina quickly runs out blocking interrupting with 3 mobs on you. Sword and Shield has a skill "absorb magic" but it doesn't work against most of these attacks, since the fire/frost is "physical". It only stops one attack and costs far too much of the very limited Stamina. Really, I think holding down normal block should stop 90% of spell damage if you have a shield equipped. Spells are basically range attacks and block should mitigate them as it does a volley of arrows (which btw , should only be blocked by a shield, parrying arrows with your sword is ridiculous).

Finally, the issue of moving out of red circles, this is also perilous. In melee all three mobs can surround you with red stuff, so that moving out of one attack puts you in danger from another - at range, gaps open up. You also don't get your movement physically blocked by the presence of an enemy.

Rather than mess around with single target, melee range interrupts and dodges, it's much easier to use skills like Blazing Spear , Volcanic Rune and Puncturing Sweep . These knock down groups of enemies from range, effectively an AOE interrupt on casters, which also stuns and damages the opponent. Far better to do this and avoid the incoming attack in the first place , than let them cast/do that power move then try block/dodge it.

Basically sword and shield is good for dealing with a single mob, where CC is not possible and where other people are healing you and dealing the damage. IE boss tanking.

I'm doing ok now, but can't help feel disappointed at how often the game degenerates into 1 button spam. The great majority of skills you might invest in are garbage, but there are a few that are just "win" buttons. Templar has their fair share of these now, but it's a little unsatisfying. Encountered a quest boss, a pyromage with healing abilities also and an ogre pet.

I set up carefully, put mutagen on myself, dropped rune focus on the floor, pulled with force syphon and vampire's bane, buffed myself with ransack, and tried to juggle all 3 resources while light attacking, dodging, interrupting, blocking, healing. However I couldn't catch his heals fast enough and the fight was a stalemate.

So, I just sat in front of the caster, and held my finger on the [5] key, which is mapped to puncturing sweep. Spam, Spam, Spam, he jerks around like a ragdoll under the constant barrage and can't heal himself. I don't bother trying to move, block or dodge anything, just keep stabbing that one button . He dies before I run out of magika and his pet despawns. I suspect most fights are like this and I would probably win spamming this one skill, but i'm starting to feel like a bot.