Ok, so if I get you correctly. I should use blazing shield?

fail derail attempt is fail. He asked about templars tyvm. Every templar that I come across who is unkillable or are hard as _______ to kill uses nothing but that..so must be good. yes?

Tintinabula wrote: »

fail derail attempt is fail. He asked about templars tyvm. Every templar that I come across who is unkillable or are hard as _______ to kill uses nothing but that..so must be good. yes?

I'll let you in on a super secret strategy I'm really sure nobody else came up with yet:

If you meet a Blazing Shield spammer, kite him. The splosion has a limited range and defensively damage shields are actually pretty poor bang for the substantial buck, err, magicka.

@op: Depends on what you're looking for. Ganking, small scale, sieging/defending. etc.

get a dress and a heal stick, currently my blazing shield cost only 226, and my magicka recovery is 181... I'm v12 but i still recommend the same build, things don't change much from v1 - v12, only stats from armor

my temp is 5*warlock 5*seducer, resto resto, blazing shield -honor the dead mutagen -immovable -inner light [clouding swarm], dark flare -honor the dead -inner light -elusive mist -vampires banes [soul assault]

assasin combo from stealth is, dark flare> dark flare> vampires bane> soul assault, ESPECIALLY on sword and board DK, if they don't notice you, they die 100% time, the reason this works is because of how long it takes dark flare to land, by the time the first dark flare has landed, you have already shot off your second dark flare, vampires bane is quick activation and soul assault is essentially instantly, they have about 1.5 seconds to react, the reaction would be a dodge roll because they cannot heal because dark flare has cut their healing down to 20%, then there's interupt but they're sword and board so need to get into range but they can't because they are slows by vampires bane and soul assault, most people panic heal

for 1v1 it's just blazing shield allday, without pots or food, i get 22 blazing shields spammed one after the other, in a fight no-one can deal enough damage, that's 1200+ dps a second to counter the damage mit, no-one can deal this in a 1v1 without get all that damage reflected back in their face, it's 18k dmg mit and 10k damage reflected if in range and not CC, again this is not factoring in the fact that you will be able to use more than 22 blazing shields and not factoring in the fact that blazing shield often bugs out 1k + damage, someone on here got a 3.8k crit, I've got 2k crits on four people before

je25ffb14_ESO wrote: »

Geez, just looking for a strategy in terms of cloth vs. heavy armor and skills. Defensive posture has been decent, and jabs is always great, as well as the CC, but even with spell resist maxed, I can get nuked.

Guess I'm just trying to learn how to even 1 v 1 someone and what a temp's best chances are.

There isn't that much you can do about getting nuked by NBs, a decent one will make everyone go splash at the moment. Against nukes in the more traditional sense, i.e. dmg spells by Sorcs, DKs and Temps, Impenetrable trait on your armour helps tremendously.

As for skill builds, my first impression of the 1.3 changes is that full tank ( heavy ) and weapon damage ( medium armour ) based builds got somewhat better, but still require a good bit of knowledge about the class and game mechanics and a lot of effort to pull off. The easiest and safest way still seems to be bathrobe-and-stick.

To a Templar, it provides synergy effects that are hard to ignore. Dark Flare and Vampires Bane are two good long range nukes, Magicka boosts improve the already strong burst healing as well as the nukes and Resto staff provides the resource management other Templar builds are desperately lacking.

Sword and shield as the other weapon is nice to close a gap with invasion if you need to cuddle with an opponent or need a poor man's escape ( target an enemy in the direction you want to go ).