[VIDEO]Crescent's Magicka Templar Build - Soul Jabber 3.0 (Morrowind&HotR)

crusnik91

Full detail build video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFFeLfGL8U

Gameplay video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p23Um1YfQhU

1 light 1 Medium 5 Heavy
Sets: Skoria, Shaklebreaker & War Maiden
dual wield and s&b setup

INTRO:

This build is meant to play solo or in a small group (not more than 4). *This build is not meant for healing*
PROs: Really high damage overall + extremely high crit
CONs: Sustain a bit tight(switching mundus helps)

FULL BUILD INFO:

unbuffed stats on s&b bar

SETS:

1 light 1 medium 5 Heavy
Sets: Skoria, Shacklebreaker & war maiden
dualwield and s&b setup

WHY HEAVY ARMOR? Pretty simple. To survive all the hard hitting stam/mag users. Without shields heavy armor is the way to go.
WHY Shacklebreaker? Shacklebreaker is the set to go for to be able to use witchmother potent brew foodbuff while maintaining a 14/15k stamina pool.
WHY SKORIA OVER GROTHAR? 2 reasons - CD is faster 5 secs against 10 secs. skoria is locked on target and grothar is locked on user. Bursting target is key in PVP so skoria is better
WHY WAR MAIDEN? It is simple just the best damage set for mag templar in this patch + it does increases the damage of burning light too

CP, Mundus & FoodBuff

Very straight forward and generic CP setup. Good amount of points into thaumaturge for DOTs and Master at Arms for direct damage. Do put some into block cost reduction as well
Atro mundus or Thief mundus & witchmother brew foodbuff

SKILLS:

For raiding: Walls of element + shards are really good options
Soul Assault is a decent ultimate for pure single target instead of dawnbreaker
Bats is pretty good as well for a substitute for shield ulti

STATS SHEET

Fully buffed stats on dualwield

COMBACT GAMEPLAY

Try to fight in close doors/tight areas where your jabs could contact easier. Lying down both ground buff (channel focus & ritual) is extremely important too. Keeping up purfying + vamp's bane will keep you enemy underpressure and always try to play around the 6 secs burst of purfying light. If you want to be even more deadly with bursting enemy down try to time your ultimate with skoria proc(you will hear a proc sound before skoria lands). Lastly make sure u weave in light attacks before jabbing because weapon enchantments are getting so strong now it will be stupid not to make use of them!

LAST WORDS:
Mag Templar is one of the harder classes to go solo. having a mate with u is the best way to play. That being said with a smart use of LOS or indoors advantage templars do have a really good chance in 1vX-ing(even against decent players) because of the setup u have u get to surprise many players with your outcoming damage. A lot of the times it comes down to being aggressive at the right time and being defensive at the needed moments.
Feel free to give me any constructive feedback or ask me anything!

Brutusmax1mus

I'd put 75 in thaumaturge and a lightning destro on the back bar for setting enemies of balance for the 10% more damage. And your sweeps will hit over 6.5k

crusnik91

Brutusmax1mus wrote: »

I'd put 75 in thaumaturge and a lightning destro on the back bar for setting enemies of balance for the 10% more damage. And your sweeps will hit over 6.5k

thats a really good idea actually. i see some ppl do that in duels but i have to give it a try in open world see how it goes

crusnik91

Gameplay vid up!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtaFxdmxG88

UppGRAYxDD

Go 5 soulshine, 5 lich(SnB) back bar, 2 skoria or grothdar, and duel wield 2 sharp willpower swords. More life, more recovery, and hits just as hard. Plus you can use tri stat food!

crusnik91

UppGRAYxDD wrote: »

Go 5 soulshine, 5 lich(SnB) back bar, 2 skoria or grothdar, and duel wield 2 sharp willpower swords. More life, more recovery, and hits just as hard. Plus you can use tri stat food!

more recovery yes more stamina yes. but there's a significant damage reduction if u use lich instead of spinner
let's do the maths FOR DAMAGE OUTPUT shall we?
lich - 1 max magicka + dual wield willpower 1.5 max magicka + 1k extra max magicka from tristate food
spinner - 2 max magicka + 1 spell power damage + 4k spell penetration(~350 spell damage)
with spinner = minimum of 300 more spell damage

In a group lich is defo the way to go. But playing solo u need that damage/penetration to kill stuff because with my setup atm i have 2.2k magicka regen on s&b bar(atro mundus). If u maintain ur ritual (which is 240 per sec= 480 magicka regen) u will have 2.68k magicka regen which is defo high enough for any templar.

Kas

did they change it? as far as i remember sweeps weren't classified as channel (and neither as casting) leaving soulshine only relevant for beam (and dark flare or the heal).

Lexxypwns

Kas wrote: »

did they change it? as far as i remember sweeps weren't classified as channel (and neither as casting) leaving soulshine only relevant for beam (and dark flare or the heal).

You're incorrect, sweeps definitely gets buffed by soulshine.

edit: I think the tooltip still remains unchanged

Minno

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Kas wrote: »

did they change it? as far as i remember sweeps weren't classified as channel (and neither as casting) leaving soulshine only relevant for beam (and dark flare or the heal).

You're incorrect, sweeps definitely gets buffed by soulshine.

edit: I think the tooltip still remains unchanged

Yea I think the tooltip states the same. Mostly because the buff is a condition instead of a buff to core stats?

Lava_Croft

@WillhelmBlack: Looks like the build you casually mentioned in some random thread a while ago.

WillhelmBlack

Lava_Croft wrote: »

@WillhelmBlack: Looks like the build you casually mentioned in some random thread a while ago.

@Lava_Croft

It is exactly the same, skills and everything. I still prefer Defensive Stance to Mist Form though and sometimes I still use Engine Guardian if I'm roaming solo, sometimes Grothdarr. I'm not surprised someone else came up with it, it kinda makes sense. It's the logical way to go so I doubt he's copied my build.

The build is insanely good, probably the strongest yet. Hits so hard that I get at least 2 hate whispers a night.

His stats are a little off mine tho, 40k Magicka is achievable.

Lava_Croft

Hence the trollface, this build is the most sensible DPS build for PvP MagPlars

Sandman929

Nice build OP

Lexxypwns

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Hence the trollface, this build is the most sensible DPS build for PvP MagPlars

Is it though?

BSW gives more damage than spinner by far and has upwards of 70% uptime and isn't rendered ineffective by damage shields

Hexys

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Hence the trollface, this build is the most sensible DPS build for PvP MagPlars

Still better then a reactive noob whos gameplay is based on mist forming back towards his zerg.

WillhelmBlack

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Hence the trollface, this build is the most sensible DPS build for PvP MagPlars

Is it though?

BSW gives more damage than spinner by far and has upwards of 70% uptime and isn't rendered ineffective by damage shields

In PvP your greatest enemy is heavy armour.

UppGRAYxDD

crusnik91 wrote: »

UppGRAYxDD wrote: »

Go 5 soulshine, 5 lich(SnB) back bar, 2 skoria or grothdar, and duel wield 2 sharp willpower swords. More life, more recovery, and hits just as hard. Plus you can use tri stat food!

more recovery yes more stamina yes. but there's a significant damage reduction if u use lich instead of spinner
let's do the maths FOR DAMAGE OUTPUT shall we?
lich - 1 max magicka + dual wield willpower 1.5 max magicka + 1k extra max magicka from tristate food
spinner - 2 max magicka + 1 spell power damage + 4k spell penetration(~350 spell damage)
with spinner = minimum of 300 more spell damage

In a group lich is defo the way to go. But playing solo u need that damage/penetration to kill stuff because with my setup atm i have 2.2k magicka regen on s&b bar(atro mundus). If u maintain ur ritual (which is 240 per sec= 480 magicka regen) u will have 2.68k magicka regen which is defo high enough for any templar.

UppGRAYxDD

crusnik91 wrote: »

UppGRAYxDD wrote: »

Go 5 soulshine, 5 lich(SnB) back bar, 2 skoria or grothdar, and duel wield 2 sharp willpower swords. More life, more recovery, and hits just as hard. Plus you can use tri stat food!

more recovery yes more stamina yes. but there's a significant damage reduction if u use lich instead of spinner
let's do the maths FOR DAMAGE OUTPUT shall we?
lich - 1 max magicka + dual wield willpower 1.5 max magicka + 1k extra max magicka from tristate food
spinner - 2 max magicka + 1 spell power damage + 4k spell penetration(~350 spell damage)
with spinner = minimum of 300 more spell damage

In a group lich is defo the way to go. But playing solo u need that damage/penetration to kill stuff because with my setup atm i have 2.2k magicka regen on s&b bar(atro mundus). If u maintain ur ritual (which is 240 per sec= 480 magicka regen) u will have 2.68k magicka regen which is defo high enough for any templar.

Here my lastest screenshot buffed, no continuous, no emp. Do the math

Lexxypwns

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Hence the trollface, this build is the most sensible DPS build for PvP MagPlars

Is it though?

BSW gives more damage than spinner by far and has upwards of 70% uptime and isn't rendered ineffective by damage shields

In PvP your greatest enemy is heavy armour.

BSW gives more damage against heavy armor than spinner does though and its not even remotely close.

edit: I will say that for duels spinner is likely much better, but in open world cyrodiil its too easy to keep bsw proc'ed to not run it imo

WillhelmBlack

Lexxypwns wrote: »

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Hence the trollface, this build is the most sensible DPS build for PvP MagPlars

Is it though?

BSW gives more damage than spinner by far and has upwards of 70% uptime and isn't rendered ineffective by damage shields

In PvP your greatest enemy is heavy armour.

BSW gives more damage against heavy armor than spinner does though and its not even remotely close.

edit: I will say that for duels spinner is likely much better, but in open world cyrodiil its too easy to keep bsw proc'ed to not run it imo

BSW is good, just not as good as Spinners for solo or small scale PvP. I don't want to rely on procs or 1 skill (Vampires Bane/Reflective Light) to get more Spell Power. 3500 is enough for me and in this set up the penetration works on all my damage skills and it's reliable.

My Templar has over cap spell resist, in other words Magicka based enemies tickle. I'd hate to go against someone who is ignoring a large chunk of that resistance though.

Wreuntzylla

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Kas wrote: »

did they change it? as far as i remember sweeps weren't classified as channel (and neither as casting) leaving soulshine only relevant for beam (and dark flare or the heal).

You're incorrect, sweeps definitely gets buffed by soulshine.

edit: I think the tooltip still remains unchanged

I have an addon that displays spell power and weapon damage. I see the opposite. Spell damage increases for sweeps but doesn't move for radiant destruction.

Lexxypwns

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Kas wrote: »

did they change it? as far as i remember sweeps weren't classified as channel (and neither as casting) leaving soulshine only relevant for beam (and dark flare or the heal).

You're incorrect, sweeps definitely gets buffed by soulshine.

edit: I think the tooltip still remains unchanged

I have an addon that displays spell power and weapon damage. I see the opposite. Spell damage increases for sweeps but doesn't move for radiant destruction.

It also buffs radiant for sure.

Wreuntzylla

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Kas wrote: »

did they change it? as far as i remember sweeps weren't classified as channel (and neither as casting) leaving soulshine only relevant for beam (and dark flare or the heal).

You're incorrect, sweeps definitely gets buffed by soulshine.

edit: I think the tooltip still remains unchanged

I have an addon that displays spell power and weapon damage. I see the opposite. Spell damage increases for sweeps but doesn't move for radiant destruction.

It also buffs radiant for sure.

Good to know!

I should say I have an addon that displays weapon and spell damage on my main screen without having to go into inventory or the character screen. I downloaded it because of soulshine. Apparently not working right, though.

crusnik91

Really detailed analysis of some clips. Give the vid a try!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMOPTGwlXcY

Brutusmax1mus

Any reason you use snb instead of dw? You're using mist to mitigate and aren't using defensive stance.

danno8

3:26

Man I hate when that happens. You go to execute and "WTF is RD targeting?!"

Lexxypwns

Brutusmax1mus wrote: »

Any reason you use snb instead of dw? You're using mist to mitigate and aren't using defensive stance.

Have you tried snb on a magplar? Particularly with 5 soulshine 5 spinners 2 skoria you've got TONS of damage. I can't tell you how many times I'm in execute range with multiple people pounding on me and a Block+BoL gets you to full health, not only does it save your skin its pretty demoralizing to fight against for less experienced players. It really comes down to destro vs DW, either you want that constant spell damage and 5% damage buff or you want eye for crazy strong aoe damage, but either way snb is ridiculously good on any build with strong burst heals

EdgarLecter

A noob question,
Doesn't the lack of a Destruction Staff hurt your magicka regen? Since heavy attacks restore magicka.

Brutusmax1mus

Lexxypwns wrote: »

Brutusmax1mus wrote: »

Any reason you use snb instead of dw? You're using mist to mitigate and aren't using defensive stance.

Have you tried snb on a magplar? Particularly with 5 soulshine 5 spinners 2 skoria you've got TONS of damage. I can't tell you how many times I'm in execute range with multiple people pounding on me and a Block+BoL gets you to full health, not only does it save your skin its pretty demoralizing to fight against for less experienced players. It really comes down to destro vs DW, either you want that constant spell damage and 5% damage buff or you want eye for crazy strong aoe damage, but either way snb is ridiculously good on any build with strong burst heals

I play dw/ resto. Soulshine using jewellery, julianos heavy, skoria. Lights champion morph of the resto ultimate is so strong even solo. I won't use the destro ultimate. It's worse for this game than proc sets imo.

You can block heal with any weapon. I guess it is the passive that makes the blocking better, thought it was the skill for some reason. Either way, with lights champion, you have 5 second where you don't need to heal and can just pressure regardless of the burst they give you. 96 ultimate and you'll have it an the time so long as you're killing people.

crusnik91

EdgarLecter wrote: »

A noob question,
Doesn't the lack of a Destruction Staff hurt your magicka regen? Since heavy attacks restore magicka.

In the mist of pvp-ing I dont u have the time to full charge a heavy attack. But if u are playing the build right i dont think u will have any magicka issues. The trick is to keep ritual up at all times

Brutusmax1mus

I run 1.9k in heavy, it's a decent amount but I've gone through it in longer fights.