Chomag wrote: »

Go paladin style.
*2handed weapon and bow. They both work great.
*5 heavy armor, 2 medium armor.
*M 3 - H 2 - S 1

Your 1st action bar will be using 2handed weapon and will consist of only 1 weapon skill (critical charge), sun fire, biting jabs, piercing javeling, honor the dead heal.

Your 2nd action bar will be bow: snipe, venom arrow, volley, sun fire, piercing javelin.

Your usual style in pvp is to open with Snipe from stealth, followed by Sun Fire to dot and slow him, and start kiting. If the opponent is in your face use piercing javelin to knock him back and immediately follow through with critical charge into biting jabs and some weapon attacks. He should be dead or close to death by now.

Don't listen to this. Maybe Consider after they bring stam builds up. There are much better builds for your templar if you are actually looking for something this specific.

Templars are a fun class to play.

They can solo the game just fine, especially now that they are getting some buffs and some love, both in the class skills department and the Stamina skills department.

They still have a ways to go...overall there are other classes and specs that are overperforming, and Temps still need a bit of tweaking, but they aren't in a bad spot. They just need to be better.

The best balance in leveling a Templar is to keep an eye on your skills, and balance out what your lacking with your skill points. I tend to go with what I have on my bar. If its in favor of stamina skills, i put a bit more into stamina. if its in favor of class skills, i put it in Magick. overall as you level (at least up through the higher VR's right now), it won't make or break your setup, so relax and enjoy it. the stats are the cheapest to reset right now (and they are reducing costs, so it will be even cheaper).

Also, you get the most benefit from leveling by putting a MIX of skills on your bar (magick AND Stamina...unless you are a full blown caster build with staff). I tend to be heavier in the stamina direction...i have 3 stamina skills on my bar, 2 class skills (one is a heal/regen buff), and my ultimate is radial sweep...its a bear of a skill now.

Stamina skills are still a bit behind Class skills "overall", but are perfectly viable in solo play since the VR changes. so dont' feel like you have to go with "class skills" to really enjoy hitting hard.

here's a fun example of a heavy hitting stamina combo. Charge (i use the extra damage morph) - uppercut - charge. through most of your leveling process that will take down a single mob. fun stuff, really feels like you're whalloping them with a heavy weapon...which is why i run with a 2h weapon I like the heavy hitting feel. and running mostly class skills doesn't give you that feel...but that combo certainly does. and it works fine now...even through the early VR levels (doing it on my Temp as we speak).

My other skills will vary. on my new Temp im using Sun Fire (reflective light), and Restoring Aura (radiant aura) with charge, uppercut, and reverse slice. Ill often switch out RS with Biting Jabs, and sub in Cleave (brawler) for Sun Fire depending on my situation. but it's a fun spec. I lean heavily towards stamina, and use gear to shore up my other areas. I run 5 medium and 2 whatever for the stamina perks (reduced stamina is a big one in the new patch).

Moral of the story is this (TLDR): don't worry too much about balance in stats at this point. keep a blend of things, and gear can always make up the difference. Play what you enjoy...if you enjoy heavy hitting weapons, pick up a big stick or pokey thing, and skill up with those stamina skills! you wont' regret it.

majestic862_ESO wrote: »

I and several other templars (...) are capable of hitting upwards of 700+ damage on players with several skills.

Which specific (less situational, non-ultimate) templar skill hits for 350+ damage?? err excuse me, hits for 700+ damage? (no PotL, no blazing shield..! these are situational)
I know of solar barrage + javelin and, of course, our puncturing-skill^^. I know no other skill that does far more than 250-300 dmg per hit. If you spam solar-barrage + javelin you'll run out of mana, even if combining it with balance/equilibrium!
DPS buy just using puncturing strikes are not so high. Together with the passives and a decent amount of crit it may be 400dps!?

Dark Flare can easily hit over 1k damage with the proper setup. Don't believe me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S3GsmbPQC8
I'm hitting people for 400+ WITH SOLAR BARRAGE, which does less then half the damage of Dark Flare. And I'm wearing heavy armor in this video too.
In 7 piece light with spell damage accessories, high spell penetration and the use of your head, you can very easily have high dps and burst as a Templar. Anybody that says otherwise and believes that Templar's are only good for healing and can't do damage is ignorant.

Puncturing spear can hit over 1k if burning light procs, 500+ normally and another 200-700+. I can 2 hit people that don't block it.
Empowering sweep can crit over 1k also,800 crit + 200+ burning light.
Reflective light can crit 400-700+ each on 3 different targets.
I've hit people for over 700 with Aurora Javelin also.
Blazing spear can crit over 500+ damage also.

Plenty proof that Templars can dps on youtube.