A few thoughts.

1. It feels to me that you may be better off just spamming Blazing Spear: it hits far more targets than Reflective Light and does more direct damage (plus a lot more with Burning Light proccing off the hit and DoT ticks: you get a tick on the initial hit too so even when spammed that's about 2 - 3 chances to proc Burning Light per cast). In theory mixing Reflective Light's DoT with Blazing Spear spam would increase your DPS against, I dunno, less than 4 enemies, but I find that in practice the effect is non-existent or too small to justify an extra skill slot + complexity in rotation.

2. I also don't see much point in Elemental Ring, again Blazing Spear does more damage, covers a larger area and is ranged; you can certainly use it for the extra DoT but it's so weak I don't think it's worth bothering. And without Ele Ring you can use dual wield with your AoE bar, increasing spell power and overall DPS far more than Ele Ring will.

NOTE: I get that using all these DoTs is more for the benefit of Valkyn's, but I question if this is worth it: when using Valkyn's you're sacrificing an extra spell damage set, combined with sources of DPS loss that I mentioned above I think the overall effect is at most equal in terms of AoE DPS; while your single target DPS suffers.

3. If not going with Valkyn I reccomend using Worm Cult instead of Torug's for your armour and leave Torug's for weapons. That way you don't miss out on spell power for having V12 instead of V14 weapons.

4. Single target DPS-wise this build seems really lacking. Adding in Destructive Touch doesn't really solve that, even with a Master's weapon. You really need a solid DPS skill like Force Pulse or, if you want to adhere to Templar skills, Puncturing Sweep/Dark Flare.

5. Radiant Destruction, IIRC, starts executing at about 35% health (give or take, never took the time to ascertain the exact level), so you can start using it a bit earlier than you do.

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My personal magicka DPS Templar (which can achieve 13k single target DPS without Combat Prayer or anti-Daedric effects) uses the following:

20 Magicka, 42 Health
Mage Stone
Health/Magicka Food

4x Martial Knowledge
2x Worm Cult
2x Adroitness
2x Cyrodiil's Light

7x magicka enchants
3x magicka cost reduction enchants

2x Nirnhoned Torug's Pact Daggers
1x Sharpened Master Fire Staff

Light Armour Focus: 10
Bastion: rest of Warrior points (for PvP)
Magician: all of Thief points
Elf-Born: 30
Thaumaturge: rest of Mage points

Daggers bar:
Dark Flare
Structured Entropy
Blazing Spear
Radiant Destruction
Inner Light
Ice Comet

Staff bar:
Breath of Life
Extended Ritual
Elemental Susceptibility
Channelled Focus
Inner Light
Remembrance

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Overall pretty simple build. Spam Dark Flare against single targets, spam Blazing Spear against multiple targets, Radiant Destruction to execute, use Structured Entropy to keep Major Sorcery up. Staff is for Channelled Focus, applying Elemental Susceptibility (once) to bosses, keeping the Ultimate flowing with Extended Ritual and emergency healing if necessary.

Not entirely happy with Dark Flare as it doesn't seem to do exactly what it says on the tin (you definitely don't get one off every 1.1 seconds, it's considerably longer than that and isn't consistent either). I may get more out of this by weaving Force Pulse as my single target DPS instead, but I haven't experimented too much with that yet (my main role is healing, so I don't get to DPS that often).

Your damage with spells and feats is affected by weapon damage, and since two dual-wielded weapons tend to have higher weapon damage (higher than a staff), you actually get higher weapon damage from dual-wielding than from using any staff.

It looks like a bug, or at least something that needs to be changed... but that's the way it works right now, as I understand it.

@ThatHappyCat I think you should re-read his build. He's using reflective light as a single target spam and its not a bad idea if built right.

Imdrefan wrote: »

@ThatHappyCat I think you should re-read his build. He's using reflective light as a single target spam and its not a bad idea if built right.

The build has changed slightly since I posted my thoughts.

With regards to weaving Reflective Light: there's no doubt it's good damage looking at the video, but I wonder if it wouldn't be even better if you weave Force Pulse and keep Vampire's Bane and Destructive Reach up for their DoTs. After all Force Pulse's direct damage is much higher and (unless this has changed since I last tested it) benefits more from Elemental Drain.

Hardicon wrote: »

Can someone explain why dual wield with Templar magic dps. Ive seen people say it gives extra spell damage but I cant find that anywhere in dual wield. Must be something I am missing somewhere.

david.haypreub18_ESO wrote: »

Your damage with spells and feats is affected by weapon damage, and since two dual-wielded weapons tend to have higher weapon damage (higher than a staff), you actually get higher weapon damage from dual-wielding than from using any staff.

It looks like a bug, or at least something that needs to be changed... but that's the way it works right now, as I understand it.

A weapon's base damage gives the same amount of spell power as weapon power. QED.

glak wrote: »

A weapon's base damage gives the same amount of spell power as weapon power. QED.

Ah, that is a more succinct way of putting it.