Yes there is a way for templars to spike 1200 dps. If you have 4 mobs at same VR level as you. You spam Solar Barrage - Brawler, making sure all 4 mobs are in front of you.

However you will die because you cannot shrug off the 900 damage from the light attacks (minus 400 from the bubble) you receive at that time.

While we need to do around 3000 on v5 mobs to kill them. EACH.
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lasma799 wrote: »

Magicka regen on a Templar is a PITA. They either need to reduce all magicka cost for templar skills or give them a much better magicka passive regen. Current magicka costs are ridiculous.

However, in terms of the classes, right now it's still DK (by an extremely large margin)>>>>>>>>Sorc>>>Temp>NB. DK's damage is still way over the top than any sorc or any other class with more CC's and survivability available.

A real nice change to address the magic regen problem could be the use of retribution skill replacing magic as well as stamina/health. This would be a good start and a skill that could be used anytime with bodies on the ground and cost nothing from the magic pool to cast. Increase the area and allow partial to overlap to other players in the AOE.

Of course this does not address the dps problem or armoring problems.

I too had alot of trouble with my templar untill around vr6, when I discovered the power of spell critical and blazing shield. I have an omni build: high aoe DPS, tanking capabilities and healing at the same time. It can become a little bit repetitive so I tend to swap weapons and do random setups alot, but when the fight gets real I always swap back to this setup:

Structured Entropy - More health/magicka/magicka regen
Blazing Shield - Main focus of my setup, shields you and returns 50+% of damage received in a cone
Honor the Dead - Instant cast heal that refunds about 70% of the mana used over 8 seconds and has very high crit chance when used at low health (my 'oh shet' button)
Healing springs - Area heal, which is really efficient if combined with spell critical since it gives loads of ultimate points and mana refund per target affected (so great for groups, if solo then repentance for more stam/health regen and a quick mana-free heal after killing something)
Inner Light - Again more magicka but also 20% spell crit

Ulti - Whatever you like most ;-)

Restoration staff - Since your mana regen is lost during the shield being active, you definitly need to heavy attack with a resto staff to sustain your magicka pool.

Stat attributes - 0-49-0:blazing shield is stronger if you have more health

It's important to horde as much spell critical as you can (use twilight and willows set!) Also I use 7 light armor pieces with magicka enchants (white glyphs) and use jewelry that gives me armor+armor+fire resist.

With this setup I only use the blazing shield skill when playing solo, keeping blazing shield up at all times. When fighting packs of mobs in craglorn, the strenght of the shield becomes insane and with the high spell crit your damage will go over the 1.000 per target (with downside that the aoe is glitchy and hard to aim, takes some practise).

Yesterday I managed to succesfully become the 'savior of nirn', soloing the three dolmens in Reaper's March (vr10 zone) using this setup. If you're having trouble with your templar, I suggest giving this a try!

Otherwise, the templar has loads of utility skills that are great for many situations, making it hard to compare them with other classes. If a templar runs into a super golden vr12 emperor sorcerer with the best possible set and buffs/bonuses, all the templar has to do is cast eclipse and the powerfull shard will simply direct right back at himself For the amazing Dragon Knight talons we simply have to hit our cleanse and not only is everybody in the area out of the crowd control, they also gain around 200-300 health! Even for the occasional Nightblade dual wielder we only have to cast searing light to make them hit themselves and on occasion even lose their balance, waiting for us to push them down.

Concluding, every class has it's benefits, you just gotta figure them out.

Also, this post just became way too long, sorry for that x-)

To come back to first post: With two healer (and every major pvp group has two healers) it is quite easy to use Equilibrium, just by getting healed by s.o. else. (Of course you need skilled healers that have an eye on the group-window every moment^^). Using Equilibrium costs just time.