Help me make this Templar work.

SINIBYTE

I know this isn’t optimal. But so far it’s super fun (and that's why we play, right?).

Orc Templar with 2 Hander – all light armor, all points in Magicka. (Only level 10 or so now, alt character)

• Critical Rush (Critical Charge Morph)
• Reflective Light (Sun Fire Morph)
• Puncturing Sweep (Puncturing Strike Morph)

Critical Rush as a gap closer (uses stamina, so I maintain a full magicka pool), reflective light (increases critical rating), puncturing sweep spam til dead.

Where should I go from here?

Just looking for a fun leveling alt to run around and AOE everything to death.

Waffennacht

The question you'll get is why go full light armor and magicka and use stamina moves? Typically going medium or heavy for stam is more beneficial.

But as you said it's all about fun. So whatcha wanna do? Healz, tankiness, dps? Once you've found what you enjoy doin the most you can focus in on that. AOE everything to death sounds like DPS? Is that whwat you want?

SINIBYTE

Only Critical Rush uses stamina, and its only used as a gap closer (and to jump from enemy to enemy). Puncturing Sweep is Magicka. DPS is the goal. Jump, strike, rinse, repeat. Death is the best crowd control.

I like weird builds.

sluice

I'm sure your setup works in PVE right now, since you are so low level.. but once get to level 50 (in fact, much sooner than this) you will notice that's it's not viable anymore. Anyway, not even close to other builds.

Firstly, decide if you want to go Stamina or Magicka.
PS: Orc is a race better suited for Stamina.
Deciding if you mainly want to use staffs, weapons or class skill to dish out damage is a good way to help decide.

Secondly, put all attributes points in decided stamina/magicka.

Thirdly, if you are magicka: you want to go with at least 5 light armor and mainly use Magicka glyph.
If you are stamina, you want to go with at least 5 mediums armor and mainly use Stamina glyph

Fourthly, use the right skills...

if you are stamina, you want all your damage abilities to come from stamina skills. (So switching that Puncturing Sweep to Bitting Jabs would be a really good idea..)

You will still use your Magicka pool for other situational stuff. In your case, if you went Stamina Templar, you would use your Magicka pool for Cleansing Ritual.

If you go Magicka Templar, you will need your Stamina for running around, breaking CC, dodge rolling, etc.
You should also definitly be using Toppling Charge (Aedric Spear skill) instead of Crit charge.

AOE DPS
Note that both (stamina templar and magicka templar) can be efficient at dealing AOE damage.
For instance if stamina, you want to go with Caltrops, Volley, Jabs, Dawmnbreaker, Reverse Slice (if two-handed) or Steel Tornados (if dual wield) etc.

And if you are magicka your AOE bread and butter will more be like: Spear Shards, Puncturing Sweeps, Ritual of Retribution, Proxy Det, Meteor/Nova/Crescent Sweep, etc.


Lastly, try to level up all skill line to 50 either way...
At a later date you might want to change from Stamina to Magicka or vice versa.

Cryptical

Templars burn through magica fast. Channel focus helps mag regen if surrounded by mobs that you are sweeping to death. Slot restoring aura/repentance to cushion that fall.

Cleave/Brawler for a multi target attack that gives a shield - swing with that then start sweeping, and gives a moment for a regen tick.

When you've emptied your blue bar, brawler again to set a bleed and dodge roll out, repent while getting just enough distance to hit the crit rush again, drop a focus and a brawler and maybe you've regenerated enough blue to do more sweeping house.

Orcs got stamina and speed. Eventually you'll have a bar for when you're burning magica and another for when you've only got stam left.

Totalitarian

Abandon Two-Handed, swap for Dual-Wield or staves. As a Templar, you have a magicka gap-closer.

Or you can go as a Stamina Templar. That way you can keep two-handed, and just take the other morph of Puncturing Strikes.

Magicka and Stamina Templars both play very similarly to one another, so you don't lose much out on picking one over the other.