A Simple Request for the Templar Refresh

ADarklore · September 5

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Sallymen wrote: »

Since we are getting the Templar refresh after warden. I want only one thing

1. Give us back the old biting jab spear model!
The NightHollow model on the current biting jabs looks awful, like I am picking up a shovel and jabbing the ground like I am picking up dog poo. Give us back the old pointy spear for our jabs!

Obviously we can't make any promises right now, but just want to note that one of the first things the community team noted to the team working on combat refresh was to look at the jabs animation. And they also already had it on their radar. So the call for a fix to the jabs animation is well documented here.

THANK YOU for that!! As others have said, JABS is the iconic skill of the entire class, and when they heavily nerfed jabs awhile back which opened the door to making spear the spammable (which made absolutely no sense)... it just gutted the class for many of us long-time Templar players. Bringing Jabs back to life would definitely be a godsend to loyal Templar players.

Radiate77 · September 5

There isn’t a veteran Templar I know who isn’t sick of Jabs, and how ugly the skill is, even before the animation change.

The entire premise of repeatedly stabbing with a spear doesn’t make sense. The skill has also always felt horrible with the netcode present in ESO causing you to miss a player right in front of you, then you have the problem of players just walking through you and preventing half of your damage, don’t even get me started on both Minor and Major Evasion…

Yeah; if a Spear is kept as the spammable, for the love of Stendarr make it hit once or twice but for actual damage and require a target… it can cleave as an after effect.

Firstmep · September 5

Radiate77 wrote: »

There isn’t a veteran Templar I know who isn’t sick of Jabs, and how ugly the skill is, even before the animation change.

The entire premise of repeatedly stabbing with a spear doesn’t make sense. The skill has also always felt horrible with the netcode present in ESO causing you to miss a player right in front of you, then you have the problem of players just walking through you and preventing half of your damage, don’t even get me started on both Minor and Major Evasion…

Yeah; if a Spear is kept as the spammable, for the love of Stendarr make it hit once or twice but for actual damage and require a target… it can cleave as an after effect.

Veteran templar here, been playing templar since launch. Jabs is what made me fall in love with the class, and the multi hit quick stabs have always appealed to me.

So yeah, I'm not sick of jabs, altho ofc it deserves to be better both functionally and visually.

Umbracat449 · 2:19AM

As someone who played alongside a templar for hours and years, as their main friend in eso, not watching them vigorously sweep the floors anymore, would be great, and if the main spammable can also not be noisy, that would also be great.

(Maybe it was a skill style? I dunno, but it was noisy)

Bluestin · 11:34AM

Radiate77 wrote: »

There isn’t a veteran Templar I know who isn’t sick of Jabs, and how ugly the skill is, even before the animation change.

The entire premise of repeatedly stabbing with a spear doesn’t make sense. The skill has also always felt horrible with the netcode present in ESO causing you to miss a player right in front of you, then you have the problem of players just walking through you and preventing half of your damage, don’t even get me started on both Minor and Major Evasion…

Yeah; if a Spear is kept as the spammable, for the love of Stendarr make it hit once or twice but for actual damage and require a target… it can cleave as an after effect.

Another Veteran Templar; I don't really agree with any of what you said aside from the "for actual damage" part. Jabs (and using it frequently) is part of what made me fall in love with the class. Seeing the skill get gutted over the years was pretty disappointing so I'd like it to return to its former glory.