Radiant Ward, the Ugly Duckling of Sun Shield

Alucardo

Does anybody actually use this skill, or could it use revamping? While it's cheaper, the damage output isn't nearly as nice as blazing, which is why blazing is always the go-to morph. Because this skill scales from max health, if you're running Sun Shield, you probably have a lot of HP and small magicka reserves, which means you invest a lot in cost reduction. That said, this is why the cheaper one didn't even appeal to me. With channelled focus costing 280 magicka, I can pretty much keep blazing shield up all day long, even with a 15k magicka pool.
I would suggest removing the cost decrease of Radiant, then amping its damage and range slightly.

If anyone is actually using Radiant, I'd really love to hear how you're getting on

Totalitarian

I don't use Radiant Ward, but I have it leveled just in case I need it.

My Templars have 16k health, so Blazing Shield isn't going to do much for them. But that being said, Radiant Ward still provides very little shield, so I just use Dampen Magic, which gives me a 19k shield.

I have it maxed out just in case.

Cinbri

It has zero use.
Revamp it into Blinding Light-like morph, so templars can't get both Blazing Shield and Blinding Light.
Templars already have exmaples when morphs change skill completely (dark flar/Solar barrage, Eclipse, etc.)

Neoauspex

If I had to pick between Radiant Ward and an overheal that takes 1.2 seconds to cast, I'd pick Radiant (barely).

But, on a side note, if they changed either of these skills it would probably result in a deathnerf to all the useful Templar skills, so I'm pretty content to leave them be at the moment.