#BringBackRealJabs

Is all i want.

Better sustain. Most classes have tools for good sustain but templar is lacking.
I also think they could use some utility to be stronger healers again.

Overall, I am a little concerned with the devs' focus on Templars creating like, bastions of protection or whatever. The problem with this is that in harder content, very rarely are you able to sit in a safety bubble that someone put down. The fights are chaotic, fatal AOEs are being tossed everywhere, mechanics scattered across giant rooms are everywhere, players have to constantly reposition themselves and the like. Sure, such abilities could be good for 'tank and spank' fights, but harder content I see uptimes of stationary abilities falling flat.

If they want templars to be a bastion, it needs to be attached to them or mobile in some way.

I made a massive post about this topic somewhere and I don't feel like reposting it so I'll just mention my biggest desired fixes.

DELETE. HEALING. RITUAL.
Hate that skill. Replace it with literally anything else. Both morphs, into the garbage.

Make 1 morph of Nova a genuine DPS ultimate, that way templars don't have to outsource power.

Fix jabs, that it. Animation aside, sweeps is fine, but remove major brutality from jabs and replace it with major breach. If that skill is going to have one redundant buff/debuff let it be the one that provides more damage. Otherwise allow it to have a different secondary effect entirely.

Allow luminous shards to have its own cool down separate from orb.

Class Script is very mediocre. I like the idea of tying in Sacred Ground but it just feels really half assed to get a slight 5 second minor buff to offense and defense which is SLIGHTLY stronger if you cast it in your sea bear circles. There could be more there, or heck even throw burning light into the mix. Make the class script generate 2 stacks instead of one along with sacred ground.

Remove useless morphs:

Reflective Light - make it a molten weapons/ expansive frost cloak style skill but for Major Crit for your group. Rename it Illuminating light or something.

Blazing Shield - has NEVER been good. Its a worse shield, it deals no damage, it has no range.

Purifying Light - Costs MORE, deals LESS damage, has a tiny STATIONARY HoT as its bonus. This morph would be the poster child of dead morphs if Blazing shield hadn't always been bad.

Dark Flare - My candidate for the "beam" skill (runecarver/engulfing dragonfire) its just a worse spammable that only has niche applications in pvp.

Radiant Aura - Doesn't do much of anything but providing potion buffs passively. Could be made into a channeling style skill since plars get cool synergy with channeling skills.

Remembrance - Ever since charge got major protection this ultimate hasn't been worth much of anything. It heals less, and you are stationary = sitting duck. Practiced Incantation use to be situationally better since it allows you to move but now its just superior.

Less survivability better damage

Most likely, all the light spears will be changed since all animations seem to get changed. But I hope that its not “this is a “spear” with an effect over it” like jabs currently is but rather more like what the original spears are like— not flat out spear-shaped but rods of light. Like how Zeus is depicted as throwing lightning.

Focused charge should stop taunting.

I commented in the feedback survey that I like that plar doesn’t have a health based burst heal but it is missing one so I suspect we might get one.

USEFUL! GROUP! BUFFS/DEBUFFS! I don’t know which ones but give us something so plar support isn’t a complete meme.

I want Burning Light to remain the same. I don't want to see any "while ability slotted" conditions added to it.

Additionally, the Templar Class Mastery should drop the bonus for having Sacred Ground active on you. Currently, if you don't have access to Restoring Light, you can't get that bonus. The bonus should instead be removed entirely or baked into the base amount of WD/SD and Armor you get.

It'd also be cool to see Radiant Aura be like a Magicka version of Repentance.

I mainly think a few lesser-used skills could use buffs. Healing Ritual is just used and redundant with other skills available, and Sun Shield could use further functionality for tanks or DPS.

Nova also isn't too helpful as a DPS ability or for tanks, and even in PvP rarely sees use.

A new refresh of templar jabs, making jabs the record holder for most altered skill in the game, and rivaling nightblade overall for most total skill changes in the game.

Bring back blinding flashes and make blazing shield awesome like it once was before being wrongly nerfed.

Templar beam non-dodgeble

And they definitely need to do something with dark flare, at this point I wouldn't even complain if they completely "refreshed" it despite how usually against I am for that sort of thing.

Jabs - Old animation, remove Major Brutality/Sorcerery and add Major Breach as ViggyBoi suggested would be top of the changes list.