I need advise on Templars Please!

sazodeha

As I am new to this class, I am seeing these healing skills in both staff and Restoring light. Its all "heals Ally, Heals Ally, Heals Ally...Oh and a small side heal for you".

In most MMOs I have played in the past I could for example press F1, select myself, and apply the various types of heals (Inst or HOT). But in this MMO oddly enough you cannot target yourself!?

So I guess the advice I am looking for is how do you heal yourself?? What if I wanted to make more of a sort of paly class who's focus is on self heal with a side of ally heal?

Am I missing something?

p_tsakirisb16_ESO

Most spells are AoE on both Templar & Resto staff lines.

Breath of Life heals you (always) and 2 of your allies, and is more "typical" old school heal.

sazodeha

So when I cast and see that line shooting off to heal someone somewhere near me, I am also be default getting healing?

Kcttocs

sazodeha wrote: »

So when I cast and see that line shooting off to heal someone somewhere near me, I am also be default getting healing?

yep.
Recently switched to Honor the Dead morph instead of breath of life. I found that when I act as a healer, usually only myself and one other need healed. I like getting some mana back, verses healing two others, plus it heals for more. But either one is pretty good. Templar Heals are the best burst heals, Healing staff is good for HoT's, but when you need that O-sh*t button to heal, nothing beats breath of life or honor the dead, except the ultimate.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO

Furthemore, if you are the one most in need of healing, the "heal ally" effect will target you. And if you are the only friendly face around playing solo, all healing effects will target you. A Templar has no problems with healing. Damage dealing is a problem, though, and it becomes difficult to conserve Magicka in the drawn-out fights you will usually experience with a Templar in PvE. Heavy attacks with a restoration staff help a lot in restoring some Magicka, so I would advise keeping a restoration staff one of your bars.

fougerec99b16_ESO

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

Damage dealing is a problem, though, and it becomes difficult to conserve Magicka in the drawn-out fights you will usually experience with a Templar in PvE. Heavy attacks with a restoration staff help a lot in restoring some Magicka, so I would advise keeping a restoration staff one of your bars.

Depends on your play style. My 2H weapon focused Templar has no issue mowing through mobs like they're butter. Then again, it's a balance between Magicka and Stamina.

UnholyPerfection

fougerec99b16_ESO wrote: »

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

Damage dealing is a problem, though, and it becomes difficult to conserve Magicka in the drawn-out fights you will usually experience with a Templar in PvE. Heavy attacks with a restoration staff help a lot in restoring some Magicka, so I would advise keeping a restoration staff one of your bars.

Depends on your play style. My 2H weapon focused Templar has no issue mowing through mobs like they're butter. Then again, it's a balance between Magicka and Stamina.

In drawn out fights

Spottswoode

DOTting is the best way to do drawn out fights with healing as your primary.
When it comes to healing in general, it's best to use an assortment of buffs with your heals so you can spend less magicka healing. Circle of preservation is a decent buff for group fights (I prefer turn undead for the cc function) and combat prayer will speed up the battles a little. Quick siphon will allow you to spend more time buffing than healing, but you'll want a good burst heal if you go this route. Soul siphon will let you keep spamming aoe heals and buffs.

UnholyPerfection wrote: »

fougerec99b16_ESO wrote: »

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

Damage dealing is a problem, though, and it becomes difficult to conserve Magicka in the drawn-out fights you will usually experience with a Templar in PvE. Heavy attacks with a restoration staff help a lot in restoring some Magicka, so I would advise keeping a restoration staff one of your bars.

Depends on your play style. My 2H weapon focused Templar has no issue mowing through mobs like they're butter. Then again, it's a balance between Magicka and Stamina.

In drawn out fights

I'll second the 2h (Battleaxe) for melee DoT's and dps. Using blazing spear (I swear by this ability), carve or brawler in conjunction with degenerate (or quick siphon/siphon spirit for groups) and Reflecting light/vampire's bane can make the battle a lot more survivable. For the fifth slot, I'd either use honor the dead or radiant aura/repentance.
For ranged, I recommend the bow. blazing spear, Venom arrow/ poison injection, reflecting light/vampire's bane, Shadow silk (for solo play, use acid spray), and Degeneration. Self heal isn't needed for this setup if you keep your distance and make adequate use of blazing spear.
You can also do a restoration staff dps. It's a dot setup with blazing spear, reflecting light/vampire's bane, honor the dead/breath of life, Degeneration (Use shadow silk for groups), and Quick Syphon/soul siphon. Quick siphon will allow you to focus on dpsing with your DoT's while soul siphon will allow you to burst heal more often and use blazing spear more often.

AngryNord

fougerec99b16_ESO wrote: »

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

Damage dealing is a problem, though, and it becomes difficult to conserve Magicka in the drawn-out fights you will usually experience with a Templar in PvE. Heavy attacks with a restoration staff help a lot in restoring some Magicka, so I would advise keeping a restoration staff one of your bars.

Depends on your play style. My 2H weapon focused Templar has no issue mowing through mobs like they're butter. Then again, it's a balance between Magicka and Stamina.

What skills do you use? I get a hunch you may mostly be using the 2-h skills and not many Templar skills, am I right?

Mephos

sazodeha wrote: »

As I am new to this class, I am seeing these healing skills in both staff and Restoring light. Its all "heals Ally, Heals Ally, Heals Ally...Oh and a small side heal for you".

In most MMOs I have played in the past I could for example press F1, select myself, and apply the various types of heals (Inst or HOT). But in this MMO oddly enough you cannot target yourself!?

So I guess the advice I am looking for is how do you heal yourself?? What if I wanted to make more of a sort of paly class who's focus is on self heal with a side of ally heal?

Am I missing something?

there are two types of heals:

aoe healing and single target

single target is somewhat tricky. as long as your alone it works perfectly only for you. when someone else is close to you and he has less HP than you.. your heal will target him and not you (you get 0 heals then^^)

however, I highly suggest the following:

force siphon (healing staff, morph is up to you) + puncturing sweep (puncturing strike morph with heal) + regeneration (healing staff) ..

this will give you a very good HPS sustain where you can solo most of the content alone and the heals will work 100% for you and additional will heal others which are nearby.

also this combination can be sustained with heavy armor if you take the morph of force siphon where you have cast time but get magicka back for each hit. but overall cloth is recommended (sadly not that much of a heavy paly ^^).

have fun leveling

Edit: the style is more like if you would combine a shadow priest with a pally ^^