Templar mixed build

Laranoye

Hi folks,

Is it possible to to a mixed Templar build to be able to heal, tank and dps? and maybe dabble a bit in pvp? I am an imperial race. I imagine It could be possible with a magika build with some in health with the imperial bonus.

Cheers

puffy99

If you are going to be the primary healer you would need one resto staff and enough sustain to handle it.
I am not sure how you would tank and be able to watch heals and be effective. DPS is not a big deal - you can do both for sure (dw other hand) but you still have to watch everyone and know when to back off and go to resto to carry enough sustain tell the win. Of course if you have high CP and are at end game and healing pugs might not be a big deal to do it all..

Robbmrp

With enough CP anythings possible. You'd still have to switch sets out though as Tank gear doesn't have healing or damage bonuses. So you'd have to carry 2 sets pretty much. If your magicka DPS, you could get away with using that as the Healing set as it would help there as well, not so much for tanking tho. You'd need better armor/sets for it. I tried it for a little while on my Templar but with the changes to Stamina Regen, it was really hard to maintain any stamina while taking when spec'd as magicka.

Nestor

You can certainly build a Templar to be a Tank or DPS or Healer. Just not at the same time. Well, you can do DPS and Healing at the same time pretty easy. I do it all the time. You just have to make sure you focus on the healing aspect if that is your group role in lieu of DPS both from paying attention to what is going on and resource management. It would be easier to combine DPS and Healing with a Templar as you don't need a Restoration Staff to heal with that class. I never do and I am not entirely sure what reason a Templar would need a Healing Staff other than Magic Regen from Heavy Attacks. But, then again, I don't have one character who has any skills in Restro Staff so I am not the one to speak to that. In fact, I think my highest level Restro Staff character is L3 in that weapon line.

Tanking, sure you can do that too, but it requires different gear than DPS/Healing and different skill loadouts. You can DPS/Heal with a Templar with the same gear and pretty much one bar, although it would be better to DPS on one bar and Heal on another.

One of the Healers in our Guild carries around a set of Tanking Gear with him for those times he needs to get his Tank on.

Laranoye

Yes i understand what your all saying, I'm aware ill need different sets. but I mean is it possible to get the right abilities without respeccing constantly to be able to do all these. I know i'd need to swap some out depending on what im doing at the time.

Cheers

*and when i say abilities i mean morphs

Nestor

I heal completely from Templar skills alone, so I don't need to spend any skill points in the Restro Line. In fact, my Templar only has a Destro Staff skilled up. I think there are some things you can do with a Restro staff that I can't do as a Templar, but I keep my groups alive when I am the Healer, so I have never felt the need to expand the skills there.

You will need Heavy Armor and Light Armor passives, but you would probably do that anyway as most casters run 5 Light and 2 Heavy* to begin with.

As for skills for Tanking, you need a Taunt, and I think that's pretty much One Handed Shield for that skill. There might be some other weapon skills that Taunt, but I am not aware of them. One thing to note about Weapon Skills, you need the Weapon slotted on that bar to use the skills. There is an Undaunted Taunt skill that is not dependent on Weapon Skills so you can go that route. Group Dungeon runners are always looking for healers so you can level that line without too much of an issue.





*While leveling you should really wear a mix of Light, Medium and Heavy armors to level all the skills. For leveling content, you can be pretty much naked and do just fine, so having armors that you don't have passives for is no big thing.

NiclasFridholm

Tank and Healer very much viable! Go with 5 Seducer and 4 Magnus 5-1-1. Have tank/healed vWGT endless runs. Also very good as PvP Healer. No Resto needed just go with class skills!

dodgehopper_ESO

It will be easier if your DPS role is magicka based. If you do that you'll be able to DPS and heal with one set of gear (just weapon swap between roles) and for tanking you'll have another set of gear. As to what to set your base stats at you'll want to ask someone else. I've never built a character that can do all things at the same time. You'll lose out a bit on optimization in either role (Heals/Dps Vs. Tanking) but that's the norm for Tanks in general. I think you'll find you'll not be as top of the line in the Healing/DPS roles but you can do well enough. You'll also need to decide where you want to Tank or heal and whether it is for Dungeons, raids, or pvp. This is why I really wish this game would let us just store a build or 2 (like DCUO has).

Destyran

Laranoye wrote: »

Hi folks,

Is it possible to to a mixed Templar build to be able to heal, tank and dps? and maybe dabble a bit in pvp? I am an imperial race. I imagine It could be possible with a magika build with some in health with the imperial bonus.

Cheers

You make a argonian with regen in heavy armour and spec co right you can make a heavy armour tank that does aoe taunts from heals hahaha yoy stack healing received and never die

Nifty2g

You can do a healer/dps but not a healer/tank or tank/dps

Tank doesn't mix well with any of the roles

Laranoye

Cheers everyone