no

Play any class you want but understand that Templars are the only class that had their resource mechanic removed from Beta. Templars are also the lowest sustained DPS class.

Beta and three months subscription revenue should bear sustained DPS and resource mechanic balance for all classes.

Level 1-50 won't matter but VR will wake you up in a heart beat to your lack of relevance to trials groups and lack of sustained DPS and resource mechanic.

On the bright side, maybe they will balance the classes by the time you hit VR content if your just starting out.

DKs and Sorcs have been the OP FOTM from Beta and nothing is changing in comparison to the weakness of Templars as a class.

If you want to face roll through end game content, DK or Sorc might be your option as it doesn't appear that Zenimax is going to create class balance anytime soon.

If you do roll a Templar, you might consider an Imperial. The "Red Diamond" racial seems a bit OP in healing when using rapid strike abilities.

Pre-vet levels I find them easy to level. No clue about how they are to level in VR content.

If anything I have found Templar to be the least interesting class.

they seem really fast as killing as least in the lower levels where I have tried one.

Mine as level just as well or better than my Sorc or NB.

blew through all content with minimal deaths, craglorn came out when i was v9


templar 2h, 3L 2m 2h for most content to lvl all 3 armors while lvling
and it was FUN

danno816_ESO wrote: »

Ragekniv wrote: »

Its been four months and I'm quickly losing patience given Zenimax's lack of progress in balancing classes to present.

Was not the game released 4/4/14? It has been under 3 months by my count.

Anyway, no class is hard to level 1-50. In 50++ VR content it gets harder, although so far for me VR 1-5 has been actually kind of fun. Like how it is suppose to be in terms of difficulty. Tougher but far from impossible, and that is with a melee oriented build, 10/12 skills Templar skills. We will see how VR 6-12 goes.

His math isn't so good, he has been saying the exact same broken thing in every thread today.

OP: I am VR8 Templar, it does get harder as you move up through the VR ranks, but 1-49 are a breeze. Ragekniv does have a point in resource management but with a few tricks and good useage of the radial you can keep magicka topped and with the new buffs I just pushed through a VR8 dungeon and dominated everything, even if they were 3 + a healer. So, things are looking up.

Breton Healing Templar here - just hit 45 running down every quest in every area... Vampire, Breton and Biting Jabs plus i chose heavy armour plus all its passives. i can solo within reason, and i am just starting to group heal really well running dual healing staffs with different skills slotted - one solo, one group focused. i love eeet. peace

My dual wield temp fares just fine.

No.

And I'd ignore the FUD mongers about VR leveling. Leveling up VR is just as much easy mode as pre-VR. The only thing that would make it easier is if we had invis like NBs so we could sneak past/bypass the trash to bang out quests faster

I have a 25 Templar alt that was easy and fun to get up to that point. Started 2hander and went bow as my 2nd bar at 15. Sort of a "Ranger of Light" build.

I played a medium armor Bowplar build 1-50 and loved it. The combination of javalin plus scatter shot allowed me to solo anything that could be cc'd. Including zone bosses-with ease.

That bud was terrible for VR though. I decided to switch to a shield bash/biting jabs combo to handle VR mobs of 3 so that I could keep my medium armor Bowplar build for pvp and kiting bosses. Then shield bash got nerfed and I started dying. A lot.

VR2-4 I experimented with several builds. I respecced at least 6 times. I lvled up every Templar skill, most weapon skills, and several Mage guild/ fighters guild skills.this was painful and frustrating at times, because I had to find out the hard way what did and didn't work.

I finally said screw it and went full cloth. Grabbed a couple staves. I ditched all stamina and overcharged magicka and magicka recovery. I put 10 pts into health and grabbed The Lord mundis stone.

So now I have a bar for healing and a bar for solo questing. The heals are fun and. Very effective. At VR 7 I often get compliments on my healing. I use rest staff for the aoe and passives, otherwise I use all Templar abilities.

Dps is another matter. I learned the hard way that no weapon, build, or class ability rotation is competative or acceptable for groups. I can manage burst single target dps of 900 or so using a few different Templar/destro combos, but nothing sustainable due to rapid magicka depletion.

That is really the biggest hurdle for Templars at higher lvls. I chug magicka pots like they are going out of style. If we had sustainible magicka, we would be beast. As it is now, we are good healers and "ok" everything else.

I'm Vet 4 and have solo'd up to this point with no problem. They level as fast as any class, I think your question should be are vet levels painful to level? the answer is yes.

crislevin wrote: »

you want to have both resto and destro when leveling, impulse is still the best AoE in game. Although in most cases resto staff is fine.

I use resto/destro, and honestly I find Biting Jabs much better than Impulse unless I am trying to farm Public dungeons with mobs of 4+

Reflective light/Wall of Elements/Biting Jabs is a pretty deadly combo vs 2 or 3