Attributes
Let’s start talking about attributes for a Templar and how you want to spend your attribute points you get from leveling.
STRENGTH: Increases your Attack Power and Damage Bonus. This is your primary stat you wanna go for if you wand to deal damage.
DEXTERITY: Increases your Critical Strike chance and Resist All. This is your third stat you wanna go for if you wand to deal damage.
INTELLECT: Increases your Critical Damage Amount, Critical Healing Amount and Healing Bonus. This is your secondary stat if you want to do healing and your secondary stat if you want to do damage.
SPIRIT: Increases your Support Power. This is your secondary stat if you want to do healing, since it seems to scale badly on the Paladin Promotion Class.
CONSTITUTION: This increases your Health and Barrier Bonus. Don’t focus on this, unless you need a bigger health pool for some reason.
Talents
(Coming soon) I’ll add Talent trees after the Promotion Classes have been reworked.
The next thing we want to talk about are Talents. This graphic gives you a good overview on the Talents you want to pick.
Promotion Classes
Vindicator:
This build focuses on doing damage, you’ll get several bonus damage buffs, while sacrificing survivability. Your execute move will no longer require pips, making you able to spam it like a melee dps. Many of your powers will have their survivability aspects removed in change of extra damage. And your passive is extra slashing damage based on your bonus fire damage.
This Promotion Class can wear Mail Armor
Paladin:
This promo class changes the Templar to a more support/healer build. Your parry will drain pips slower, you will have Holy Warrior faster, your Devotion is being enhanced so it heals you and your allies for 50% of the damage you deal. And most importantly, Divine Light no longer has a pip requirement, meaning you have a free healing circle lasting for 12 seconds.
Your passive stacks up healing critical chance every time you heal an ally.
This Promotion Class can wear Plate Armor
Captain Slashin’s Paladin Guide
Fury:
This is the more CC focused version of the Templar. You’ll have a slow, increased duration on CC, reduced soul power cost on your ultimate, a melee ranged root, and when you place down your divine light – you knockdown and daze on enemies within your divine light.
Your passive increases your max health every time you CC enemies.
This Promotion Class can wear Plate Armor
Source: Calderas breakdown of the 5.8 promotion classes
Abilities
In this section I will walk you through the core Kit of the Templar.
Brilliance (Ultimante Ability)
Righteous Stand (Parry – replaces Dodge)
Censure
Devotion
Judgement -> Execute
Reproach -> Castigate -> Radiant Sweep | Righteous Smash
Divine Light
Holy Warrior
Resurrection
Disciplines
(Coming soon)
Since a major rework of the major Disciplines has been announced I will add this section after that.
