Magplar - heavy or light?

Chronicburn

Is it possible to get enough magic and spell bonuses elsewhere to make wearing heavy a better option than wearing light ?

Strider_Roshin

You should look up Soulshine. All shall be revealed.

MarkusLiberty

What makes Soulshine so good compared to sets like Julianos?

KochDerDamonen

MarkusLiberty wrote: »

What makes Soulshine so good compared to sets like Julianos?

Higher spell damage for channeled spells (ie both of Templar's spam options are channels, and so is their execute) However, you're still giving up either light armor passives or arcane on your jewelry to use this set.


To the OP, heavy armor is always going to be lower dps for PvE than light armor. There are some dps-y options for heavy armor sets and you can certainly push acceptable damage for dungeons with a good rotation and good sets with heavy armor, but there's not really places in a normal dps build where you could give up defenses for more damage than it already is.

If you're speaking of PvP or soloing things (overworld, dungeons, vMA, whatever), yeah go ahead and rock heavy armor, the defense and sustain is good and the damage buff is okay if you're taking all the hits.

Chronicburn

So what's better overall for the magplar? More damage or more protection? What's more viable in groups pvp and pve?

Lord_Eomer

PVE = Spinner/Mother Sorrow/Juliano/SPC + Will Power + 3 Piece Aethar/Moon Dancer + Kena Helm or Grothdar
Use dual wield and destro with thief Mundus

PVP = Soul Shine + Rattle Cage + Grothdar or Magicka Recovery Helm + Recovery Shoulder
Jewlery with Spell Damage enchantment

I use sword and board on both bars and use magicka Recovery mundus

Sharpened Sword (upgrade with Gold Temper s)

WuffyCerulei

Pve will require you to use 5 light armor/1 medium/1 heavy with dual wield front bar and Destro back bar for aoes. The meta is currently 5 Burning Spellweave, 5 Moondancer, and 2 Grothdarr. I don't have easy access to Moondancer crap, so I'm using Julianos. You'll want swords for DW for the spell damage buff.

For PvP, heavy armor is amazing on templars. You can play with a variety of sets.

Chronicburn

So no heavy armor then?

Ajaxduo

Chronicburn wrote: »

So no heavy armor then?

Correct, do not use 5 heavy in PvE for magicka dps. Use 5 light, 1 medium, 1 heavy to maximize the benefit from the undaunted mettle passive.