Templar and biting jabs

Mhylton44142 · September 2015

I've read that the bread and butter DPS ability for the Templar class is the biting jabs. Why is this? There are stronger abilities that hit harder in the same skill line. Can so own help me to understand?

iseko · September 2015

Cheap spammable high dmg aoe. Magicka heals you. Stamina increases crit (i think). Good for pve. Half and half in pvp

myrrrorb14_ESO · September 2015

Its self sustaining. It does terrible dps with a cc that can do more harm than good.

But its the spamming I think thst annoys people.

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · September 2015

The heal based on damage is a percentage they are not nerfed by the update all percent heals are just as strong as they were before. It's CC is strong and the attack can't be stopped so you just buff you spam the one attack over and over.

myrrrorb14_ESO · September 2015

People exaggerrate. The heal is based off of damage... damage got nerfed so therefire its heal got nerfed. Its an aoe, against a single target such as most pvp its not very good. Its not a strong cc, its okay the immunity it grants compared to the cc time is meh and usually irks teammates with strong cc.

People like to complain about stuff, its natural. I do it too.

cschwingeb14_ESO · September 2015

Biting jabs is high damage to single target and very high damage for an AE. It is all the melee damage you need, and the cost for the ability of low, since it takes a while to channel

myrrrorb14_ESO · September 2015

I'll have to look into this morw when I get home, because I do way more single target damage with my destro staff. Its the channel time that kills it for me. Its very efficient with cost though.

driosketch · September 2015

The effectiveness of sweep is proportional the amount of enemies you're hitting. Melee vs. groups, it's a must have for a Templar.

tplink3r1 · September 2015

Mhylton44142 wrote: »

I've read that the bread and butter DPS ability for the Templar class is the biting jabs. Why is this? There are stronger abilities that hit harder in the same skill line. Can so own help me to understand?

Wich one?

Mhylton44142 · September 2015

[/quote]Wich one?[/quote]

I mis-spoke (or typed), I was actually thinking of some of the Dawn's Wrath skills. Sorry--new to the Templar class.

danno8 · September 2015

With 2.1 I had a glut of AP stored up with nothing to spend it on, so I went ahead and got the light of Cyrodiil 5-set for the 25% damage reduction while casting or channeling.

So I spam the living s*** out of PS. Will get rid of it eventually but it has made grinding in IC quite easy.

Cinbri · September 2015

It is strong for single target as it deal 140% to it, also it is cheap, you can use sets combo for channel skills to negate channeling weakness and siphon spirit proc 2 mana reaturn and 4 healt return upon 1 cast. And seems many people didnt read that double reduction was removed from sweep and glory, i.e. before 1.7 you dealt reduced damage by battle spirit and 40% healing reduced by spirit too(in result it was like 29% healing). In 1.7 you have 50% reduced damage and get full 40% healing without decreasing(dealt 1k damage - healed for 400hp), i.e. very big profit (or 20% healing with Radiant Glory.)

Kupoking · September 2015

Its ot a great ability. Would trade for concealed weapon or hidden blade. Wrecking blow does more dmg and has a better cc. Steel tornado is a much better aoe. It gives cc immunity like candy making other hard cced negated by it.

zornyan · September 2015

myrrrorb14_ESO wrote: »

People exaggerrate. The heal is based off of damage... damage got nerfed so therefire its heal got nerfed. Its an aoe, against a single target such as most pvp its not very good. Its not a strong cc, its okay the immunity it grants compared to the cc time is meh and usually irks teammates with strong cc.

People like to complain about stuff, its natural. I do it too.

It's extremely good in 1v1 since it does 140% more damage to one target.

OP the best thing is by my calculations it hits as hard as wrecking blow, but it had a crit rate increase by 10% and it has a 25% chance of proc'ing the extra magika damage.

So infact with just 1 (with the possibility of 4) proc's it is the single hardest hitting stam dps move in the game.

Not to mention buffs such as the cyrodlil set that give 25% mitigation whilst channeling, and the fact it's 4x hits means it can proc sets/bonuses quite regularly, like the imperial passive that had a 10% chance of healing.

butoijo · September 2015

I used BJ for crit bonus for 8s, and passive crit dmg bonus when spear ability slotted. Other slots i fill all with weapon abilities coz hunding rage.