I really liked this set low damage but the stun is very useful I wore it on magblade when I started to try soloing a few group dungeons

The stun is nice but the damage isn't high enough to be something worn permanently. Thing is the damage it used to do was worse, they increased it for Clockwork City but by only a couple thousand points, from 4k to 6k of damage per proc.

If only it hit for like, 12k. More like Selene's or Velidreth.

The only advantage that it brings to Templar actually comes from 1p. And that's only because Power of the Light scales on stamina alone. Besides that, the damage is lackluster. If playing solo the stun may be a boon. Also 3-4% DPS is negligible, on a 30K parse that's 1.2-1.5K extra DPS. If a monster set doesn't break 2K on a build, it's not worth using. On Templar, for solo, I would actually go for Slimercraw. That gives you Major Berserk, which ups your damage by 8% permanently and gives you ~3.8% weapon critical. That's important on Templar, since you have Piercing Spear passive that gives you 10% critical damage done if you have an Aedric Spear skill slotted. Provided you are running Rearming Trap (+10% critical damage) and have 56 CP in Precise Strikes, your critical multiplier will be 1.80. That means 3.8% critical change will translate to about 3.5% increase in damage done over a longer fight. So your damage will increase by ~11.5% while playing solo. Assuming a 30K parse with Selistrix, you will be at about 28.5K without. Slimercraw will bring that to about 31.5K. So Slimercraw will be roughly twice as affective as Selistrix on your build.

I use it on my archer. Great for keep attacks. its the only ranged aoe stun. They back off the wall into a stun giving you one more shot.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

@Asardes great analysis and I would never say use the set if you care about absolute min max.

Also what is a longer solo fight? Like in overland pve everything dies so fast, like under a minute, does that factor a long fight to you? Solo you need to do everything yourself, so that 3 second stun can save your life, giving you that me to heal or get a few more jabs in to put the monster down.

When I say Solo, that means two things for me: primarily Veteran Maelstrom Arena, and second, doing world bosses solo which is almost as challenging, and even more so for DLC zone ones, some of which are nigh impossible. Which I both do with my characters. Normal overland mobs are simply irrelevant: they don't do enough damage to kill me even if I don't use buff food and they are half dead by the time I swap to front bar, after 2-3 ticks from Caltrops and Endless Hail.

If I were to build a Templar for solo play I would go for 2H instead of 2W, due to easy access to Major Brutality and an extra heal from Rally, as well as the shield from Brawler. I would use 5 Vicious Ophidian and either 3 Agility jewels & 2 Monster Set or 5 Strenglth of the Automaton or 5 Hunding's Rage on body, with Master 2H on front bar, and Maelstrom Bow back bar. When facing multiple mobs simply put Power of the Light on the biggest one, HA into Brawler then HA into Biting Jabs once or twice, while the shield holds. I'm sure everything will melt and you'll hardly take any damage. Deadly Cloak from 2W is better for mitigating AoE damage (ex. fire on the ground), but for direct damage (ex. a baddie punching you) Brawler is better. Also 2W on Templar would pretty much force you into using potions, which are expensive, or Shrouded Daggers, which is hard to fit in an effective rotation.