Blazing Spears for Tanking?

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Telos_Tim wrote: »

KlauthWarthog wrote: »

Regarding the particular change to templar...
I read "templar tanking" and "blazing", and my brain instantly completed it as "Blazing Shield". You know, morph of the one single aedric spear skill that is moderately related to tanking?
I spent quite some time wondering why they had not added it to the base skill, Sun Shield.
Then I actually noticed it was Blazing Spear. And now I wonder why they decided that templar DPS should immobilize enemies, given that tanks will not find the bar space to slot a DPS skill that also happens to be mostly unreliable at hitting moving targets due to having a travel time.

Completely agree, I read that Templar tanking was getting some attention and thought that we were finally getting some group buffs, or reworks to our already horrible tanking tool-kit, not just a tacky root on a damage dealer skill.

Instead of a meaningful major buff/debuff attached to Nova, an added health based burst-heal to Sun Shield, an important minor buff to Radiant Aura, or even just giving us back the ability to return Stamina to our group with Repentance, this is what we got, and it landed on the wrong morph.

I absolutely agree w/ you. I was hoping there would be more changes for standardized specs (in-class/in-skill), especially to combat/parallel w/ the new addition of scribing.

You're absolutely right w/ Nova. It's in the same condition now as Colossus for necro in that the important, "unique/rare" buff it provided has been given to nearly every spec w/ little-to-no trade-offs. It absolutely needs to now, provide something more unique than just a synergy (which to initial user cannot activate) to offset its especially enormous cost.

Generally speaking, I think that radiant ward is horribly performing against other shields of the like (such as flame leap/// dk's health-based armor buff shield/// conjured/ hardened ward+more). If the goal of this shield is to be protective+offensive- either the shield values need to be increased, the damage increased, or more utility added to the skills itself to make it worth slotting.

Theist_VII

Just want to double back to this thread now that we’re heading into Week 5 of this PTS.

I truly believe this is a missed opportunity to make an unused skill more usable, as I believe that the root should be on the base morph, not only the damage one.