Templar Magic or Stamina?

Sparky862 · July 2019

I started a Templar Dunmer Race. Few questions.

1. What weapons are suited for Templar?
2. Should I focus on Stamina or Magica or just even them out as I level?

Diundriel · July 2019

do you want to Play many class skills or weapon skills?

Enemy-of-Coldharbour · July 2019

Desto/Desto or Desto/Resto

Magicka

Sparky862 · July 2019

Diundriel wrote: »

do you want to Play many class skills or weapon skills?

Well I am not fimiliar with this class, but so far I like its Class Skills. But I also use my Dual Wield Weapons to fight up front also.

So I use a bit of both.

Sparky862 · July 2019

Also what type of armor should I wear?

Oreyn_Bearclaw · July 2019

If you are brand new to the game, it is very tough to beat a magic templar. You could beat the entire main quest by just spamming puncturing sweep (morph of puncturing swipes).

A magic templar that is leveling should probably run a fire staff on their front bar and a resto staff on their back bar. If you are performing a traditional damage dealer roll, you will run double fire staffs, but you want the resto leveled for PVP and if you ever want to act as a healer. Probably a good idea to work on leveling your sword and board as well, but that can come a bit later. You should only use Dual wield, bow, or a 2 Hander if you are spec'ed completely into stam. Hybrid builds are generally a bad idea unless you really know what you are doing. In PVE, Magic Templar is in a better spot than stamina Templar IMO currently. Magic Templar is the best bang for your buck in terms of raw damage and ease of rotation.

The other way to level a weapon or class line is to simply slot one of their skills on your main bar. For example, you could play with a fire staff, but if you have a resto staff skill slotted, that skill will gain XP as will the weapon line. You wont actually be able to use the skill, but it levels. When I level new characters, I am always sure to have one skill from each class line on my front bar, as well as one weapon skill from a weapon that I am not using just to get the XP. I then use my back bar for things I need in addition to stay alive.

If you are below CP 160, dont over think your gear, and certainly, dont spend a lot of gold or time farming it. You will out level it too fast to be worth. If it boosts Max Magic, Magic Regen, Spell damage, Spell Crit, or Spell penetration, its magic gear and it will work. You want to make sure you wear at least 5 pieces of light armor. Best practice is to go 5 light, 1 medium, 1 heavy, that way you get the benefits of light armor passives, and you level the other two armor lines. Its also the best setup once you are max level with passives.

Julianos, and Seducer are the obvious crafted sets for leveling a magic character. More important than the set with low level is the trait on your gear. If possible, get as much of it in Training as possible so you level faster. Once you are at level 50 and reach CP 160, then its time to start worrying more about what you are wearing.

If you are on PC/NA, feel free to send me a message and I would be happy to make you some gear to get you going. Most of us oldtimers are swimming in more crafting materials than they know what to do with.

Demra · July 2019

Basically pick either stamina or magicka and put all your points into that one attribute.

If you want to use weapon skill lines mostly (duel wield, sword and board, 2h, bow) and a few magicka skills go for stamina. There will be a few class skills you will be able to morph to stamina once you level them.

If you prefer to be more of a mage and to concentrate on your class skills you pick magicka and focus on using staffs. It will vary a bit weatger you want to be damage dealer, healer or focus on pvp.

carlos424 · July 2019

If you’re dual wielding you will want to use at least 5 pieces of medium armor for the weapon damage and stamina bonuses. Also, probably want to open up the light and heavy armor skill lines and level them up by keeping at least one of each equipped.

Thorvik_Tyrson · July 2019

My experience was that for leveling a Magica Templar, the weapon really did not matter all that much. There was enough damage with the class skills (Great AOE) that I ignored the weapon skills. I leveled using SnB as I found that to be a fun combo, and switched to Staff's after I got to level 50.

Note: I was too new to the game to understand at the time that if your going to use the SnB skills, you basically ignore the class skills as you want to max stamina and not Magica at that point. Same for Dual Wield, 2 Hand, and Bow.

My suggestion:
Magica based Templar. Put all your points into Magica.
Use Staff's as you are building the magica pool

Whatever you do, have fun!
Thorvik

barney2525 · July 2019

I really like Magicka templar. Destro/Destro. Shards, then staff wall, then jabs wipes most stuff. You can do a LOT of content without any bar swapping. Even have space to put magelight on your bar for the bonus 10% magic crits.

GeorgeBlack · July 2019

Magika Templar
DW front bar and spear abilities.
SnB backbar and survivability abilities.
You wont use weapon abilities but you will look like a fighter.
Strong builds available with search.