Zama666 wrote: »

@fred4 Yup, I stand still block in my resolve circle and my extended ritual circle and try (or hope they run away). I usually die before I can run out of resources in 1v1.

I wasn't sure how to respond at first. Is your objective to just defend? A good portion of players simply won't run away, maybe 5% to 10%. They'll see a tanky player as a challenge.

I would say that you cannot purely defend unless you're essentially a tank with suitably low block cost and high magicka regen / healing. Some 1vX builds come close to that and can still kill people (though I'm not thinking of templars). On the other hand, duelling builds are quite the opposite. They function by putting high pressure on the opponent. This aims to put the latter on the defense, which alleviates pressure on them. In other words, attack is the best defense. This is likely what you've been the victim of. A good player, whether in a duelling setup or not, always tries to keep the inititative via relentless attack as long as they can. Judging how far they can push is where skill and experience comes in. If you're evenly matched, you get a see-saw effect, whereby each party ends up with an attack and defense window, largely determined by each player's CC immunity state and whether they have rebuilt their ultimate.

An open world build typically lands somewhere between a duelling build and an outright tank. That can be at different points on the spectrum. Regardless, on an open world templar, you cannot IMO defend without line-of-sighting against some opponents. Magsorcs are in a particularly good spot at the moment and can dish out a lot of raw damage while defending with their overtuned Hardened Ward and by staying ranged. You cannot always stand your ground in open field and just defend. The templar "house" playstyle is essentially a fail. You can, however plop your rune and ritual down near a tree, a building entrance, a rock, any place that has a corner. This will make it much more difficult for that sorc to attack you from range.

How do you kill them as a templar? If they're good, I would say no way. If they're not so good, you buff up while line of sighting, then you DOT them up, maybe Ele Sus, gap close them and hit them with Sweeps, or you use the ranged templar knockback / meteor combo, or whatever stamina skills you use. If you get them to half health, then the templar beam becomes extremely dangerous. You're waiting for the opportunity to use that. There is no such thing as a stamplar when it comes to the beam. You have to use the OP beam, the one thing templar has going for them. It is cheap, so should be no issue even on a stamplar.

I actually find my templar quite tanky so long as I include some LoS against sorcs. Then again I am a magplar and I use quite a tanky setup with Rallying Cry, Wretched Vitality, Zoal and Saint and Seducer, albeit mostly light armor. Zoal is great for messing up people's burst. I also use Spell Wall as much as I use Crescent Sweep or Dawnbreaker. If I see a sorc turning on Overload and I have Spell Wall ready, that's a good time to use that ultimate and attack them right back. Make sure you also keep Living Dark up.