I'd wait until after the patch on Monday for anything Templar related.

Not just a maintenance patch, it is the second content patch, which includes Templar changes, this is the thread outlining them.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/112276/templar-update/p1

TL;DR - Blazing Spear is the best skill Temps have IMO

Some recommendations for easy mode templar:
If you have the money, respec your stats and skills. If not, dont sweat it.
Keep all points from hereon out of stamina. Between Magicka and Health your free to distribute however you want. Statting for health helps, but with abundant healing options outside of Resto staff Templars arent as constricted here as other classes are.

For armor 5L/2H. Or 7L. If you *really* like Heavy then 5H/2L.. but know that your not helping yourself any with that setup.

Weapon: Resto staff. Two of them in fact. Throw every other weapon in the trash. Now. Dont worry if your Resto staff skills are nil, because you dont actually need any of the abilities from the skill line. This is your mana battery, learn to love it.

Skills:

Sun Fire The morph is up to you. I prefer Reflective Light.. not only for its 3 target aoe damage, but even more so for its 3 target snaring capability. This skill is the most optional of the three, but it comes highly recommended. If chain casting this spell ensure you aim at a different target each cast so that you spread the dot effect as well.

Spear Shards - Blazing Spear Morph This. This skill is your bread, your butter, your life. Get it on both of your bars (unless your 2nd bar is all healing) and never, ever take it off. Three reasons why this spell rules them all:

1) Its a placable AoE. Put the damge exactly where you want it up to 28 m away.
2) It stuns one target. It helps a bit to CC, but makes this and the next effect worth using it even in single target.
3) The Blazing Spear morph makes this ability pulse every half second for 15 damage for a total of 90 damage over 6 seconds. Now remember two things here, the target (or at least one of them) will be stunned for two seconds of this. The other thing not to forget is what makes this an awesome ability is Aedric Spears Burning Light passive. (Gives 25% chance on hit to deal x magic damage.) This is nothing to scoff at. Those measly 15 damage ticks every half second can proc Burning Light (and remember, this is AoE with unlimited? targets). Burning Light hits for something around 80% of what the inital spell does (number crunchers get off me). So around 50ish you're looking at AoE of 200ish damage, with 6 seconds of 15 dps capable of proccing another 150ish (that can crit) per second, and its all AoE. I have found that most boss mobs are not immune to the stun this provides either. If all this crap wasnt enough, remember that this ability contains an activatable synergy by companions.....restoring a good bit of stamina. Nobody really cares about stamina but.. I tend to intentionally throw this on top of my tank while grouping, for nice aoe damage..a stun cc to help the tank a little, and he can push X to restore stamina for taunting whenever he wants.

Rushed Ceremony Morph again up to you. If you are 100% solo then Honor the Dead is a good way to go. If you even remotely think you may serve as a healer .. then go with Breath of Life. Unlike Healing Ritual this heal is instant, and has more than double the effective range. Get this on both bars, and keep it there.

These are the big required three, I'll cover a few honorable mentions.

Puncturing Stikes - Take this if you like it. I for one want to the avoid the stigma of being mistaken for a bot.. and more importantly I have no desire to stand in melee range if it can be avoided.. especially not if I have to channel something (read:not blocking) while there.

Piercing Javelin Not a bad skill, but definitely not worth any of your 5 slots. It's single target CC, and nobody uses single target CC. If your only up against a single opponent why would you even need CC? If your in trouble you have a heal button....that and this actually doesnt work on most boss mobs anyway.

Sun Shield Dont even bother with this until VR, and even then specialized builds. Its very useful for the niche builds that use it though.

Solar Flare Great ability. Hits like a truck. This spell is about as much *synergy* as your going to get on a Temp. The morphs change the spells usage drastically. You either keep it Mage-plar friendly with the original or Dark Flare morph, or you morph it into point blank AoE goodness. Due to the cast time you will probably find yourself only casting it once per fight as opener (really does hit like a truck), but the Solar Barrage morph drops its damage below that of Blazing Spear. I chose to go with Dark Flare, but your choice. For AoE it has no home on my bar, and even Dark Flare only saw situational use due to the cast time.

Backlash Great ability for groups. Soloing with this isnt practical, because those precious 7 seconds will go by oh-so-fast while your dodging, kiting, blocking, and doing anything other than DPSing to reach the cap.

Eclipse Great for shutting down casters, but I find Death works better at shutting down casters. The stun portion of Blazing Spear does this job well enough. Save Eclipse for pissing of Sorcs in PVP.

Blinding Light Niche spell. Can be fun for DW builds in tandem with Ember Explosion. (AoE damage + 90% miss chance). Highly unecessary at your level.. maybe something to toy with in VR, but ultimately holding your skirt up while running backwards like a scared girl is more effective for avoiding attacks.

Clensing Ritual Nice regen with synergy in the Temp tree that makes it better than Resto staff Regeneration, however its ground based, meaning you and your teammates have to stand in it to benefit. It has a reasonably large area though so that isnt hard, but there will always be someone who steps outside of it. Regeneration doesnt have this problem. If your going full healer why not use both?

Rune Focus Neat ability. Pretty small radius you have to stay in, but its doable. Insane amounts of armor and spell res.. but... my spell res is soft capped with just 5L armor before casting this.. and armor.. well.. if that was worth anything more people would be wearing heavy, wouldnt they? Play with it and see if you like it, but again consider holding your skirt and walking backwards instead.

Lastly Ultimates:
Radial Sweep - Great DPS on paper. Not as useful in practice IMO. Its dirt cheap and AoE, but this is the worst of the 3 options in my opinion.

Nova - Your damage ultimate. Its more expensive than it should be... but if you need widespread aoe damage this does the job. Either morph is acceptable. Stacking this on top of Sun Fire dot on top of Blazing Spear on top of heavy resto staff attack to regain mana is pretty decent DPS.

Practiced Incantation - The best ultimate. Someone is going to jump out and crucify me for this I'm sure, but. Its fairly inexpensive and pre 50 is basically an "I WIN" button. No .. it wont kill anyone, but for 4 seconds nothing is really going to be able to kill you or anyone near you either. Especially with the passives to increase armor/spellres while doing it. I personally go with Practiced Incantation Morph for an extra two seconds of this. At VR levels this changes, and groups of more than 2 will *** you for while using this, but while leveling this is golden. If you're especially good at playing, you can actually remove Rushed Ceremony from your bar and reserve your ultimate pool & pots for emergency healing freeing up another slot.

Thats it.

Edit: I forgot to mention this because generally it goes without saying. Get Magelight > Inner Light Morph on your bar somewhere.. and keep it there.

As time goes on, I'd get all the skills and passives. Huge amount of utility in Templars. You can swap things in and out for different bosses and encounters.

This area has X monsters, I'll use Y ,Z and H skills.

Probably like the rest of us templars, you picked a heavy armored templar using a massive twohanded weapon and end up wearing robes, waving a staff and throwing spears. So sad, I know

However during beta they doubled and tripled the costs of the Templar spells, because of the passive was deemed OP. And then just the days before the early access they remove the passive! Leaving in place the high costs of the spells.

Honestly? Then I can understand why we were left with a gimped class, and why my Templar in the beta seemed so much more playable than my current one. I never paid close attention to the numbers in beta, because I was busy just playing.

I have several temps in various configurations ranging from lv 20-40. Here are a few things. Pick one craft per toon. I have one practicing each craft. You have way too many points in magica. You will be hitting the soft cap pretty hard. You need to increase your health to be able to survive. For stamina use try adding the fighters guild line's Silver Bolts. It is a nice ranged ability that can stun a mob and is useful when you run out of magica. What race are you? Bretons make good temps.

BTW, Biting Jabs is my fav attack.

theyancey wrote: »

For stamina use try adding the fighters guild line's Silver Bolts. It is a nice ranged ability that can stun a mob and is useful when you run out of magica.

Honestly, I recommend that every class, every race, and every build pick this one up. Even if you don't keep it on your skill bar most of the time, pop it on there when you know you're facing undead or daedra. IMO it's one of the most effective things to have when running a dolmen, and there are tons of times when it comes in handy - especially if you're a magicka build.

If you dont like staffs and like to be up in peoples faces then youll have to change your attributes to 80-100% health and use gear to get you magicka or stamina. Youll also need sunshield, its the best "in your face" skill for templar.

Your going to need something to mitigate damage in the weapons trees so use 1h/shield as a back-up with your 2h.

Damage mitigation. Hmm, when comes to it, become a Vampire, if you are a Templar.

p_tsakirisb16_ESO wrote: »

Salacious wrote: »

I have a level 21 templar that I am taking my time with, experiencing the story, placing my skill points through out all the crafting sections and weapon and skill lines,

Question. Do you plan melee or caster Templar?

b) If you go as caster. Full set light armour, destruction staff qbar 1, restoration staff qbar 2. Again DK/SC/NB are better also.

As a VR4 Nightblade I just decided today it's time to roll my first alt. Mostly to share the crafting load with my main but also I need something to break up the VR grind some, too. Found myself really close to unsubbing to refresh the batteries and let some of the balancing happen but I don't want to. I really love the game just been a bit frustrated with it.

Was thinking about going with a cloth resto/destro staff Templar but I really don't know a lot about any other class besides nightblade. Templar is the only other one that appeals to me. Just sat down to do some research when I came across this thread, go figure.

So from what I'm reading, since this is an alt, would I be better off going sorc with that setup? I really like the idea of having a support toon but soloability and fun factor are considerations beyond being set on any particular class. Just don't want to be a nightblade with this toon and would like to be great in a healing role. One would think temps would make for great healers because of the class line, no?

I'm level 49 Reguard Templar.

I began as heavy and have switched to cloth/staff.

Honestly, there are a few options available, maybe as you favor heavy, melee and tanking may suit your style.

I like this class because its not weapon dependent but if you tank you would need taunting so sword/board seems a good choice.

*Just play the PvE as you like making sure you versatile in ranged, self heal and melee. Later on you may want to respec but who knows what the future updates hold for this class.

If someone is using 2H in V6+, has to play like they did in Oblivion & Skyrim unfortunately, not like we do in a MMOs.

Crouch, go behind the opponent and quickly hit uppercut. Is doing 2000+ damage, enough to kill the mobs with the follow up executioner. It also works even on dungeon bosses, when they are spawn of 3, to take out one fast, and then focus on the others.


It helps if you are wearing medium armour and you are a Khajiit also. But you need to go from behind. Is a tactic I am trying to master especially against 3 man spawns. If I can take one fast, the other two will follow, and uppercut is the most lethal hit to do when stealthed tbh.


Because is not class dependant tactic, I believe an NB with their on demand stealth ability (1st one on Shadow line) can mop up the whole VR content solo, without much hassle, compared that I am trying to sneak with my Templar.

And since I start using it more and more to solo dungeons, I am strongly inclined to start playing an NB asap.

(DKs are too OP for my taste, and need some challenge tbh).