Biting jabs costs stamina as well.

@Khivas_Carrick‌
What sort of stats do you have (stamina/magicka/spell damage/etc)? I play primarily as a tank and focus on staying the hell alive, rather than damage. So, when I've gone through some of the suggestions I've seen for Templar DPS rotations, the numbers I get are, well, rather less. I'm also not really used to strict timings to get the highest DPS, so that's likely part of the issue. I don't know if I wanna rebuild my char for DPS, but if I can get numbers like 9.5k I might. Thanks!

they have increased templars viability by alot as melee, but i feel that cost reduction stacking is in our best interest with our passive of 4%. Im wearing 5 quick serpent, 3 shadow walker, 3 ashen grip. 200 reduced cost of feat
enchants on all of my jewelry.
Ive found that stacking reduction increases your sustain dps exponentially compared to stacking regen. During 60 sec+ fights i usually dont drop below 60% stam. here's a readout i just got on a mammoth pull with my full rotation. 15k burst dps in about 4 seconds http://i.imgur.com/3Q692gf.jpg

I'll try to explain my rotation a "bit". I like to test on the first boss of Wayrest Sewers Normal (stationary, only need a tank with self heals, 50-70 second fight)

ill list abilities in order of rotation leaving a few out until the end as theyre more utility based

----be 28 meters away
---use a potion of weapon power to get your major savagery and brutality buffs---

Lethal Arrow - Great opener with awesome healing debuff (still gotta figure out what bosses are immune) and DoT

Poison Injection- Heavy attack cancel (light attack cancelling feels off atm) right after snipe cast into this ability for a good DoT to stack with Lethal Arrow, and also has its place during execute phase later in the fight with its poison ticks hitting for a ridiculous amount of damage past 50% health

---start moving into melee range---

Scorched Earth - Amazing GTAoE that melts groups of mobs, and works great in single target situations as well if the boss doesn't move around a lot

PotL- Great ability that has already been explained in this thread

Crescent/Radial Sweep - Amazing Changes were made to this and comes up serval times in sustained fights, still figuring out what i like better. Initially i chose crescent because of the significant damage boost, but im trying to see how radial will do for the damage reduc since i do a majority of my damage in melee range aka no mans land.

---swap to 2h and light or partial heavy attack

Uppercut - 2h equivalent of snipe cast time melee haymaker that works well with players who have mastered attack canceling. I use wrecking blow morph usually, but I'm still wanting to test dizzying swing with this for the extra damage reduc debuff. It is imperative that you light or heavy attack cancel while using this i can not stress enough how much better your numbers will look!

Biting Jabs - Make sure that savagery buff stays up! great single target burst potential with the amount of crits and burning light procs that can occur, but can be very inconsistent as a main damage burner compared to uppercut, still worth alternating in every 2 or 3 uppercut rotations

Brawler - I chose this morph over cleave as an accident originally but once i started using it i really was blown away by how much staying power you get from having a damage shield on cast that scales with damage done and mobs hit and also stacks on itself. The DoT effect is also beneficial in boss fights as well for the transition period where you recast your DoTs for the burn phase

--Swap to Bow again around 50%--
--potion may be up again or sometime soon--

Recast
-scorched earth
-PotL
-Poison Injection
-Radial/Crescent Sweep

Alternate your uppercuts and biting jabs by a 2:1 ratio until the boss is around 30-35%.
-watch your DoT timers/ulti pop during this phase a quick weapon swap for poison injection refresher or radial sweep will be wise. cast scorched earth or PotL or neither if you like.
- Do not light attack while reapplying DoTs, ults, etc. Its best to be as quick as possible so you can go back to uppercut/jabbing (are we boxing?)

hopefully at this point the boss will be around 25% or close to it cast brawler for the DoT

Executioner - My favorite ability ever in this build. Your main execute that also boosts damage done with 2h on targets with low health. Get ready to make your guy really dizzy. Light attack cancel and cast until you see stars. Executioner hits like a truck and so do your light attacks at this point and they only hit harder and harder as the boss losses health. Ive had crits hit for 13k+ with executioner and 5k+ light attacks.

at some point the boss will die

Your Sustained dps will most likely be upwards of 9-10k if rotation is done well enough and had no stamina issues.Ive gotten as high as 11.5k dps testing on this boss.

---Weapon Loadouts and short explanation of why

bow

lethal arrow
scorched earth
poison injection
Power of the Light
*restoring focus
radial Sweep

Used for opening burst and dot stacking, my ulti on this bar gives me 10% crit damage and a whole mess of other passives new to templar because its a slotted Aedric Spear ability

2h

wrecking blow
biting jabs
executioner
brawler
**repentance
***flawless dawnbreaker

Your main bar for all things damage be it AoE or single target, amazing sustain in huge mob pulls and heavy hitting melee for single target scenarios

*Restoring focus is amazing for survivability if you see the need cast whenever you feel like you need 17k+ armor for 8 seconds (15sec in circle) and a healing received buff
**Repentace will keep you going and going in big enemy situation with the no cost stam and health heal off each enemy corpse and also has a nice stamina recovery buff by it being slotted
***Flawless dawnbreaker slotted for that damage buff

Gear i like to use

-5piece quick serpent
-3piece shadow walker or twiced fanged snake jewelry enchanted with cost reduction
-3piece ashen grip

7/7 medium
3 infused
4 divines
stam enchants on all

precise weapons with restore stamina enchants

:other:
-Theif Stone
-62 health attributes
-I wish i was Imperial
-stacking cost reduc 20 points and stam regen 1 point in champ system
-stacking weapon damge 20 points and armor pen 1 point in champ