Ehhhh, I like it, definitely more supportive than my usual Support Role, but I like it, like it a lot. This game doesn't just support a good Support Class, it let's them thrive, which is beyond baller. That said, I prefer a more straight forward DPS form with only a single offheal, but other ways to support people, using:

Purifying Light - Creates a healing pool to passively heal with after it nukes an enemy with it's burst.

Biting Jabs - Because it hurts like a truck, and knocks an enemy back, setting me up for....

Critical Rush - Instead of rooting an enemy further, I prefer to just kill them faster, and this does more damage the farther you're away, thus it's a great lead in with Purifying Light.

Executioner/Reverse Slash - For the exact same reason the Resto Warrior uses it. It's just THAT good of a move.

Honor The Dead - While it's less healing intensive than Rushed Ceremony, having a hybrid spec like this is more rewarded (in my eyes) if you actually have magicka to cast with, and most of the time you and a nearby ally, more often than not the tank, will be below 50% HP, thus this heal will do a good amount of work (especially if you have the passives for it) and restore your magicka back, which is imperative in just about any fight.

Solar Prison - I chose the Dawn's Wrath Ultimate. It costs a bit more, but with the Fighter's Guild and DW's passives, it fills much faster than it seems, and thus helps quite a bit on the big boss battle or massive invasion PvP when it lowers enemy damage by 30% and hits like a small truck every second. Oh and it's synergy ability roots/hurts/stuns people. Can't beat that easily imho.

I have a second build, one for pvp/questing that's pretty much the exact same as above but replaces Purifying Light with Vampire's Bane and the 2H moves for their 1h/Shield equivalents (Shield Charge, Puncture). Helps in solo and helps even more in PvP, but that's a WIP, I'll get back to you on that one XD

My second build uses a sword and shield and switches rather well from PVE to PVP at a moment's notice, mainly because it's, shocker here, using a 1H/Shield for DPS/Support purposes, used mainly for questing and PvPing, and proved massively amazing when I took over a few keeps with my guild tonight lol

Purifying Light and Biting Jabs remain in place of the first two slots for the same reasons as before, but in place of the 2H skills, we have here:

Pierce Armor - When solo questing or in PvP, ripping down an enemy's armor and spell resistance by 20% is never a bad thing, and it's easily spammable. If you don't want to really tank though in a group, I suggest...

Deep Slash - Low Sweep's morph, Deep Slash lowers the enemy's damage overall, physical and magical, by a hefty amount and snares the opponent. It also hit's for quite a bit for it being nothing but a simple 1H attack skill meant normally for tanking. Why I like this game.

Invasion - Instead of Armored Assault's damage shield, I opted for a longer stun time based on distance traveled. Why? Because the longer an enemy can't act is shorter that it takes to kill them.

Honor the Dead is still the last slot, but in groups an argument can be made for a number of skills, from Vampire's Bane for max dps output, to Repentance or even Binding Javelin for more CC/Interrupts.

Oh dude, the Dawn's Wrath passives help a lot. In fact for a Resto Support Build like either of ours, all three trees are kind of mandatory. But yours works, and if I was a raid leader in Craglorn, I'd definitely bring you with that build along and place you in with my melee groups.

like the build and concept, will give it a try

I enjoy reading folks ideas and this build was interesting to read about. Don't pay attention to the whining brats like a few above.

Thanks for sharing your build; it gives me some ideas. It's great that you were able to transfer aspects of your Skyrim playstyle/build into ESO too.

THIS IS A TRAP TELL THEM NOTHING!

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Shameless semi bump to tell you I updated my first post in here to house my 2nd Build lol

I had to laugh when I read this write up on the Templar. I find it interesting that the two classes highlighted in the Battlemaster's Corner (Nightblade & Templar) are currently the two weakest classes in the game.

Last night watched as a Vet 7 DK Vampire pulled half the dungeon hall (about 20 Npc's) then he simply drop a flag and wiped them all out in about 5 seconds. But their balanced ? I dare any Dev to do that with a Templar in any kind of build.

While I play the Templar and feel it is currently under-powered, hopefully the Dev team will put more effort in balancing the classes and stop trying to give us false hype about sub par classes.

Until then Cheers.

Can you please give more information about where the player uses such build?

In this case it seems this is a PvP build , since he says "I pity the poor vamps that I pull off those keep walls."

Still , it would REALLY help to know the gear the player is using , the lvl of the char...

RivenCsky wrote: »

I had to laugh when I read this write up on the Templar. I find it interesting that the two classes highlighted in the Battlemaster's Corner (Nightblade & Templar) are currently the two weakest classes in the game.

Last night watched as a Vet 7 DK Vampire pulled half the dungeon hall (about 20 Npc's) then he simply drop a flag and wiped them all out in about 5 seconds. But their balanced ? I dare any Dev to do that with a Templar in any kind of build.

While I play the Templar and feel it is currently under-powered, hopefully the Dev team will put more effort in balancing the classes and stop trying to give us false hype about sub par classes.

Until then Cheers.

What would you like them to focus on.....Sorc/vamp and DK/vamp all the time since those seem to be the flavor of the month atm. Nothing wrong with promoting another players build. A lot of people have different ways of playing. I thought it was somewhat interesting...

Really intertesting build. I used to play a build similar to this one when i was playing a Templar.

lol bring this to tamrielfoundry and you'd get a good amount of laughs.

Edit : came across more mean than I intended. I have nothing against casual builds, whatever you think is fun is good, but it's weird to showcase such underpowered builds. Not to mention how gimped werewolf is.

I just want to address a few things here actually because a couple people bring up good points

1) I am a VR4 Templar in mostly blues and purples, and I will say we are underpowered by a pretty hefty margin when it comes to our melee capabilities. I've seen Templar Mages with Destro Staffs rip apart groups of people like it was a Thanksgiving Meal, whereas I'd get my ass kicked if I mess up too badly while fighting 3-5 People, most of the time dying. Other instances it's the game being too strong with NPC's that have their damage tuned up waaay too high (a simple world quest when I saw a tank get two shot, a VR5 tank mind you, to VR5 mobs, non elites, and he's in half yellows, the other half purples).

2) That said, Templars seem to fill the Hybrid Support Roles pretty damn well and for sustained fights, ones that go over longer to very long periods of time, we do pretty god damn good. We still need a buff overall for our damaging abilities, or at the very least make our moves cost WAY less magicka if that's how hard they're going to hit, because atm we're more for CC and low yield burst, with Backlash and Puncturing Strikes being our bread and butter, with a very long to charge Ultimate from Dawn's Wrath that's clearly the better one to use for DPS.

3) ReCap Shall we? Templar's need a damage buff, or DK's, some NB stuff, and Vamp's need a nerf if you're not willing to buff Templar's. We're viable, but the learning curve is painful as hell and we're sort of being streamlined into a role, which you promised was not part of the deal when we bought this game. To remind you, you pretty much said "Make your own path", and atm, while this is an MMO, I'm pretty sure that the difference between "One class may have an advantage in one thing over the other" and "This class is meant for these roles while this one is not" is not being clearly cut at all.

I should really not post rants when I'm high as a kite and/or tired. ELgally high mind you I jacked my knee up today, and alas, I'm at a loss for what to do other than play ESO XD

Lucardes wrote: »

Waste of content space. Why not post us a dev update (More people will read it and care), we need 1 bad or you guys just working on console porting and forgot about us?

thought you unsubbed? Why you still here?

I agree that Templars could use some increase to our damaging abilities but to say we are "underpowered" like we're the gimps of the game is ludicrous.

Templars are much more than support. We can effectively heal, tank, or dps just by switching a bit of equipment and a skill or two. I may never match the raw damage output of a Sorc or DK but throwing out stun, armor debuff, snare, disorient, damage nerf, and interrupts every few seconds has a massive effect on outcomes.

Yes, Templars are skill hogs. To get a decent build you really need to invest. You mean it costs more to be better? I never would have thought of that. =/

Yes, Templars take real skill and experience to run to their full potential. But I cant see how challenging the best players to improve their gaming skill is a bad thing.

Yes, Templars have lower damage output overall of any class. But we also have the highest survivability (healing, duh) and a grotesque array of status effects to play with.

IMHO Templars are the best class. Not only are we a force to be reckoned with alone but we also have many tools to boost our allies up and bring enemies down.