imho, there will be so many subtle changes not directly included in the patchnotes.
the "new essence rune" is rumored to be h/m/s on a single enchant.
new sets are rumored to support hybrid builds.
who knows if those hybrid builds will actually become viable.
at least having a larger health pool with little cost to the primary stat would be a buff to health-sclaing shields again.
bash builds might become strong, i don't know if the templar skills will do well with that.

imho nightblades and sorcs seem to come out very strong. however, they are so strong already, mostly because they can focus on their one damage stat and be very efficient that way. stam gives NBs the perma dodge + vigor/rally heal whereas all sorc sheilds scale off the magicka pool. sure, they also like more healther and more of the other stats. but if this is gonna be readily available, dk's and templars will prfit more (unless completely new builds develope).

I don't know the new sets, yet. maybe they'll help templars out a ton.

finally, while heal has been nerfed, big heals have been buffed. previously a templar that would go for 100pts in blessed, healer set and lots of light armor, would overheal all the time. there was so little incentive to push your absolute healing value. now there might be.

i think i cannot say at all how templar will work in 2.1. Further I don't think we'll fully know after the pts. I think it's gonna take at least 2 months until the new build archtypes for the four classes develope. I'm pretty sure that those builds form the future will eat anything we play now, taken to the new patch and scaled to v16, alive. everyone will have to adapt.


for starters, the buff to eclipse is nice - simply because it's a buff no matter how you see it.