Problem:

Templar's "Extended Ritual" and "Ritual of Retribution" skills do not remove the DoT provided by the DK class mastery skill "Wildfire Embers".

Instead of removing the negative effect in its totality, Templar's "Extended Ritual" skill, which is supposed to remove 5 negative effects from the player character, removes only 5 stacks of "Wildfire Embers", and any extra remaining stacks of "Wildfire Embers" remain on the player character. "Ritual of Retribution" removes even fewer, removing only 3 stacks of the "Wildfire Embers" effect.

Additionally, each stack of "Wildfire Embers" is treated as its own individual negative effect, meaning that removing 5 stacks of "Wildfire Embers" by casting "Extended Ritual" eats up all 5 of the negative effects that "Extended Ritual" is supposed to purge and no other negative effects are removed from the player character. This means that if someone has stacked 12 stacks of "Wildfire Embers" onto you as a Templar player, you would need to cast "Extended Ritual" three times in order to remove the "Wildfire Embers" effect from yourself in its entirety, and then cast it again to remove any other negative effects. If a Templar runs the "Ritual of Retribution" morph, it would require four casts of the ability to remove the entirety of the 12 stacks of "Wildfire Embers".

I am not sure if this is the normal way Templar's "Extended Ritual" and "Ritual of Retribution" self-purges interact with other negative effects that stack, but in either case there is no way this is the intended behavior of the skill. Templars are already so far behind the PvP meta, and on account of their purge, they were once the counter to DoT builds. Now, they cannot even effectively counter those.

Additionally, there exist item sets in the game that purge ALL negative effects from the player that are available to all classes (Mara's Balm, for instance). Because of the way every stack of "Wildfire Embers" is currently being counted as its own negative effect, the sets that purge all negative effects from the player are completely out-classing what is supposed to be Templar's unique class defensive ability and their largest strength.

This is backwards and wrong.

Solution:

All stacks of "Wildfire Embers", or any other negative effect for that matter, should be treated as one negative effect on the player character in regards to self-purging. If a Templar has 12 stacks of "Wildfire Embers" on them and casts "Extended Ritual", ALL stacks of "Wildfire Embers" should be purged from the player, in addition to 4 other negative effects.

I understand that the Templar rework is supposedly on the horizon somewhere, but I fear this problem is larger than the Templar class and affects all purges. I believe it is due to each stack of a singular negative effect being treated as its own individual negative effect, which should absolutely not be the case.

This needs fixing yesterday.