Templar Build Question

Sixsixsix161 · July 2017

Every build I research for my new Templar (started 2 days ago, level 15), basically has the same abilities. Wall of Elements, Sweep, blah blah blah lol.

Isn't there anyone who mains a pure caster Templar?

I don't like melee, I'm lousy at it (and have medical issues that impact playing melee). I normally play ranged with tanking pets, or now, a pure ranged Templar.

I was in Rivenspire this morning and got 4 Necro pieces/staff killing Magdelana several times, so I'm ok with magicka right now (and I'll keep going back every 2-3 levels for new gear). I'm retired so time isn't a problem.

I have two stun abilities to keep enemies off me, and I wield a nasty lightining staff (1108 Necro).

Can I cast my way to level 50/CP? Keep in mind I mainly play solo, so I rely on myself, and I don't foresee running higher level dungeons, trials, etc. Rivenspire will be my primary area for continuous upgrading of my armor/weapons, unless I get a super good drop from a quest or WB. Usually, I look at builds, and then adapt one and make changes to the abilities to fit my solo play style.

Thanks.

Sixsixsix161 · July 2017

Also have a second question: Since the enemies now scale with the player, does it make sense to have jewelry that increases spell damage?

In other words, if you increase your spell damage, doesn't the enemy scale with you? And you'll never get ahead of the enemy, or am I not understanding that correctly.

Thanks.

FlamingBeard · July 2017

Here's a good ranged Templar magicka DPS build:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmtM_ylJwjU (Puncturing Sweep isn't required for doing damage, he slots it for a passive)

Insert Honor the Dead (Rushed Ceremony morph) as a heal instead of Inner Light or something for solo.

Enemies all scale to the same level now, no longer to individual players.

Your stats are also scaled to this level until you make it to level 50.

Don't worry too much about jewelry and gear, etc until you make it to level 50 with 160 Champion Points. That's the cap for all armor and gear levels.

But to answer your question, Spell Damage is very important to magicka Templar damage because most Templar damage skills and Destruction Staff skills scale very largely with Spell Damage. Most people typically use two spell damage enchantments and one magicka recovery or spell cost reduction enchantment on three Arcane jewelry pieces for magicka Templar.

Sixsixsix161 · July 2017

Thank you, appreciate the info.

Shadowshire · July 2017

Sixsixsix161 wrote: »

Every build I research for my new Templar (started 2 days ago, level 15), basically has the same abilities. Wall of Elements, Sweep, blah blah blah lol.

Isn't there anyone who mains a pure caster Templar?
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What does your character equip for a weapon(s)? Anything other than the Destruction Staff and/or the Restoration Staff will require using Stamina instead of Magicka.

Of course, I assume that your character equips at least 5 pieces of Light Armor, which has the most benefit for Magicka users. I would recommend 7 pieces of Light Armor, but you can equip 2 pieces of Medium Armor or Heavy Armor instead. I doubt that 5 Light with the abilities from 1 Medium and 1 Heavy is worthwhile, but a character can benefit from some of their respective passives.

By the way, I am currently playing a "pure caster" Breton Templar as a healer, although he could be powerful in the DPS role instead. As you probably have realized, all Templar class abilities require Magicka by default, and don't require any particular weapon(s) to use. However, my healer is currently armed with Destruction and Restoration Staves, and also uses their respective abilities, which require Magicka.

Suffice it to say, it is a challenge to maximize his Magicka capacity, and/or reduce Magicka costs, and/or increase Magicka restoration, even if he doesn't participate much in DPS (other than to defend himself from attacks by "adds").

My Imperial Templar plays the Stamina DPS role, and two Aedric Spear abilities have been morphed to use Stamina. In addition, he uses Fighters Guild and Undaunted abilities. Nonetheless, that character has some Magicka to use for healing, when it is necessary for him to do that. That said, at this point, I am wondering whether he will be able to gain enough Stamina for Veteran Dungeons and Trials.

Sixsixsix161 · July 2017

Shadowshire wrote: »

Sixsixsix161 wrote: »

Every build I research for my new Templar (started 2 days ago, level 15), basically has the same abilities. Wall of Elements, Sweep, blah blah blah lol.

Isn't there anyone who mains a pure caster Templar?
....

What does your character equip for a weapon(s)? Anything other than the Destruction Staff and/or the Restoration Staff will require using Stamina instead of Magicka.

Of course, I assume that your character equips at least 5 pieces of Light Armor, which has the most benefit for Magicka users. I would recommend 7 pieces of Light Armor, but you can equip 2 pieces of Medium Armor or Heavy Armor instead. I doubt that 5 Light with the abilities from 1 Medium and 1 Heavy is worthwhile, but a character can benefit from some of their respective passives.

By the way, I am currently playing a "pure caster" Breton Templar as a healer, although he could be powerful in the DPS role instead. As you probably have realized, all Templar class abilities require Magicka by default, and don't require any particular weapon(s) to use. However, my healer is currently armed with Destruction and Restoration Staves, and also uses their respective abilities, which require Magicka.

Suffice it to say, it is a challenge to maximize his Magicka capacity, and/or reduce Magicka costs, and/or increase Magicka restoration, even if he doesn't participate much in DPS (other than to defend himself from attacks by "adds").

My Imperial Templar plays the Stamina DPS role, and two Aedric Spear abilities have been morphed to use Stamina. In addition, he uses Fighters Guild and Undaunted abilities. Nonetheless, that character has some Magicka to use for healing, when it is necessary for him to do that. That said, at this point, I am wondering whether he will be able to gain enough Stamina for Veteran Dungeons and Trials.

@Shadowshire

Thank you for your comments.

I use a destro lightning staff for offense, and a resto staff for healing. If I have enough room to kite one boss or a group of enemies, I can kill them all. However, in small rooms/areas against a mini-boss or multiple enemies I can't do it. There's a public dungeon in Wrothgar, and when you get ready to enter the area, you can go either right or left (straight ahead is a small room with nothing in it). Both sides have at leas 6 enemies waiting for you and there's no way I can win that fight. I don't use any stamina weapons/abilities/spells, all my points go into magicka (the larger the magicka pool, the more damage staffs/abilities do - something I didn't know until recently).

As far as armor goes, right now, at level 20, my character is wearing a mix of light and medium armor pieces. Reason is I need gear with magicka on it so I'll take what I can get - as I get more (and better) light armor drops I'll go to at least 5 pieces, although I'll probably add one heavy and medium piece to get the passives. Once or twice a week, I go to Rivenspire for chest runs and WB killing, and I've picked up 3 light pieces of Necro armor so far, and that really boosted my magicka. I still have to be careful though, so I don't run out of magicka. Easy to do at the lower levels.

On using stamina for those two Aedric Spear abilities, do you put any points into stamina? I'm wondering since more stamina increases stamina weapon damage, do you split points between magicka and stamina?

It seems to me that a Templar seems to use more magicka than other magicka users (i.e., MagSorc) because I don't remember running out at lower levels with my magsorc.

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