Both TBH...

But it depend are you a go all out burst happy player-DK
Shield up and come out bursting when you can and run people over with shielding- TEMP

I would recommend a Templar for your first character. Your main attack also heals you, so death is rare. Not that a DK is not fun and easy to play, it's just the Templar is the easiest to get off the ground and use to get your head wrapped around the game. Once you figure out the mechanics and what to do, roll a DK too and play that. And then a Sorcerer and then a Nightblade.

Hmm...Imperial Dragonknight!

And for my templar I converted puncuring jabs to biting jabs instead of puncturing sweep.. was that a mistake?

Wasn't planning on stamina. Most of the templar abilities are Magika and the imperial has a boost in health and stamina so that helps those aspects. That's why I'm not that worried about biting jabs, but I accidentally picked it without seeing the health restored on puncturing sweeps.

If you're splitting your DPS between magicka and stamina, you might find your damage output is lower than it could be if you specialize in one. I'm building a stamina Templar myself and took the Biting Jabs morph, for primary DPS. Since my stamina pool is large, abilities like Jabs scale with it and hit hard. In the same way, magicka abilities will scale with your magicka pool. It sounds like you want to do primary magicka, so I would recommend the same as @Nestor : take the Puncturing Sweep morph.

Note: Stamina Temps are powerful right now, so if you ever go down that road you'll be very happy. You don't get the heal from Biting Jabs, but Repentance is a free health/stamina restore, morph of Restoring Aura. I combine that with 2H, which results in excellent damage and sustain, and THAT results in being able to solo PvE content very easily.

Just my 2 cents.

Do you just morph your abilities to stamina based instead of Magika based ones or how would you go down the staMina skI'll line? @likewow777

I did the imperial so they specialize in 1H and shield, but 2H would work better?

KrustyWilly wrote: »

I did the imperial so they specialize in 1H and shield, but 2H would work better?

That class "specialty" simply means that weapon skill line will level up faster than the others, if you equip it. You can get to lvl 50 in any weapon, regardless of that passive, it'll just happen slightly slower. If you can get some weapons with the Training trait, it will help level the skill line faster.

I chose 2H for DPS mostly because I like how satisfying it is to use. I've got a NB that uses bow and DW, though, and the DPS you can get with that is great as well. 1H+S is mainly meant for tanking, and you'll notice that the skills don't do a lot of damage all on their own. The idea there is to taunt, debuff, and otherwise lower the enemies ability to fight effectively. That said, tanks can very effectively solo even stuff that isn't meant to be solo (i.e. Craglorn). The downside is that DPS is generally low, and it can take forever to kill anything.

KrustyWilly wrote: »

Do you just morph your abilities to stamina based instead of Magika based ones or how would you go down the staMina skI'll line? @likewow777

For my stamina builds, I always choose the stamina morph over the magicka one. For Templars, those are Biting Jabs, Blinding Javelin (I believe this is the one), and Power of the Light (Dawn's Wrath skill line). I tend to weave those abilities in with weapon abilities. So for 2H, a typical rotation is:

Momentum (buff) -> Critical Rush -> Biting Jabs (repeat if needed) -> Executioner (finishes them off) -> Repentance

For multi target, like public dungeons, 2H's Brawler is almost essential. For single target, Biting Jabs can be substituted for Wrecking Blow, or both could be used in conjunction.

If you want to do something other than 2H, there are generally similar abilities. Steel Tornado, from the DW line, is one of the best AoE stamina damage abilities. There are also builds that focus on maximizing damage from Rapid Strikes, which can give killer single target DPS.

Bow has abilities that do a lot of DoTs, which just saw away slowly at HP. When I use bow, I'll poison the crap out of everything, then just walk away as they die slowly. Plus, with high DPS, you can generally kill a mob of 3 before they even have a chance to get to you.

Almost everything that's said above can be applied to a magicka build, though. Just substitute a destruction staff in, swap around the skills, and take all the magicka morphs.

Dahkoht wrote: »

likewow777 wrote: »

If you're splitting your DPS between magicka and stamina, you might find your damage output is lower than it could be if you specialize in one. I'm building a stamina Templar myself and took the Biting Jabs morph, for primary DPS. Since my stamina pool is large, abilities like Jabs scale with it and hit hard. In the same way, magicka abilities will scale with your magicka pool. It sounds like you want to do primary magicka, so I would recommend the same as @Nestor : take the Puncturing Sweep morph.

Note: Stamina Temps are powerful right now, so if you ever go down that road you'll be very happy. You don't get the heal from Biting Jabs, but Repentance is a free health/stamina restore, morph of Restoring Aura. I combine that with 2H, which results in excellent damage and sustain, and THAT results in being able to solo PvE content very easily.

Just my 2 cents.

If don't mind me tagging along with some questions as just returned to the game after being gone for a good while , and starting over as a templar again. Played DK and Templar before , enjoyed them but was much more hybrid like.

This time I want to go the stamina 2hd templar route , just really enjoy 2hd sword playstyle , and wondered if overall you should dump all your points into stamina or a few into health also ?

And odd question , but whats good for a 2nd bar/weapon ? I get that bow uses stamina but wondered if that was the only option. I was actually considering a 2nd 2hd weapon and just mix up a few abilities , but that might be an odd route to go.

Just curious.

Personally, I like the 2H/2H setup. Generally, the main bar is focused on single target, while bar 2 is AoE and healing. That said, being in melee range isn't always the easiest thing. Many bosses in trials and VR dungeons are hard to hit when you need to be in close. Mind you, there's always a way.

While I like 2H/2H, my NB uses DW/Bow, which is extremely effective as well. Plus, I'm eventually going to do 2H/Bow with my Temp.

As for attribute points, I always put every one into the pool I depend on the most. My tank does all HP, my stams do all stamina, etc. The reason is that you can make up any deficit using armor enchants, jewelry, item set bonuses, and food. As a real example, my VR14 DK 2H has every point in stamina, but the resulting stats with food are: ~22k HP & ~25k Stamina. If I have the emperor buff, I can use drinks for regen instead, because my health will be ~19.5k naturally. She's an Imperial, though, so these stats are more easily achieved with those racial passives.

While at endgame, it's recommended healers and DPS have 20k HP, before you get there it doesn't matter so much. If you're worried, I'd just make or buy some cheap green health buff food and eat that whenever you think you might need to.

Alright thanks. I put 3 points in magika, 3 in health, and 1 in stamina but from now on I'll pump all,my points into health and stamina. And I'm going to sound really stupid and I'll realize once you say it what it is, but what do you mean when you says buffs and buff food?

KrustyWilly wrote: »

Alright thanks. I put 3 points in magika, 3 in health, and 1 in stamina but from now on I'll pump all,my points into health and stamina. And I'm going to sound really stupid and I'll realize once you say it what it is, but what do you mean when you says buffs and buff food?

when you approach the second zone, you will be able to respect your atributes and skills.
at the begin it is fine to put points into healt, becouse ensure a better survivability.

KrustyWilly wrote: »

What us the second zone if i don't mind asking lol

which alliance did you choose?

EP/DC/AD?

EP = Deshaan
DC = Stormhaven
AD = Grahtwood

Btw a question for all of you guys, would you recommend stamina or magika build? Which would be better in the long run? Since I can respwxy my points and such soon.