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I have noticed a lack of recent information when it comes to templar AA specs. This is exacerbated since the official forums templar board is long dead. You can always swing by flames but that can be a dangerous prospect and the ads there are getting out of hand. I’m not the master templar that I used to be and I don’t parse 24/7 these days but I thought showing off my spec might help someone out and might get me some tips on how to better min-max my character. The spec I’m using is for maximizing healing and buffing in a raid situation. Feel free to voice your concerns and questions about it.
For my three end abilities I’ve chosen Steadfast, Holy Shield, and Divine Recovery. Steadfast is exceptional due to the fact that it prevents you from being interrupted and should make you stifle immune while standing still once you upgrade it with Steadfast Resolve. Due to a bug you can occasionally be stifled but in general it works well. Holy Shield was an ability I chose as a test. It gives you limited, non-directed, AE immunity. It actually comes in handy sometimes when you want to protect yourself or someone else. Divine Recovery is something I use to improve my group’s DPS and HPS. With the upgrade Divine Healing you add 10% potency and that isn’t bad.
Divine Guidance is an extremely worthwhile spell. It can save your group’s hind end in a pinch and gives you a moment to breath when you need it. The recast is just right and the effect is quite potent. It takes a big investment in points to get but I would certainly do so.
The templar tree is a lot less straight forward than the cleric lines. Prior to Sentinel’s Fate it was fairly dubious when it came to true upgrades. Since then it has been revamped a bit and proves much more useful. I highly recommend upgrading your debuffs. They bring additional healing and curing to the party. I also recommend Enhance: Unyielding Benediction. Despite the fact that this spell is extremely gray it is incredibly effective. You’ll notice I’ve only chosen Blessings from the final line. I just don’t feel that the others are worthwhile. For more dps you could go after Smite Wrath, it works as advertised. I’ve also chosen Enhance: Cures II but would recommend someone choose Enhance: Devoted Resolve instead. At max, Cures II adds a ward to players under 30% health that will absorb a single hit. It isn’t bad but I haven’t seen any large reward for it. I feel a group heal added to devoted resolve would be better.
For Sentinel’s Fate I was very busy in the templar tree. I’ve selected Holy Protector, Divine Meditation, Atonement, and Cleansing the Soul. Holy Protector adds an effect to Holy Armor that literally reduces elemental, noxious and arcane damage. I find that quite useful. Divine Meditation works at making Focused Intervention more of an every day heal. I don’t use it as much as I should though. Atonement was my number one buy. It improves Repent, the templar ward! That is all good for me! Finally Cleansing the Soul makes you a bit more effective when it comes to curing curses. You’ll be able to do it faster and more often.
The final ability, True Faith, isn’t a shower like but it is quite handy for those of the tanking persuasion. You’ll reduce incoming damage to them and give them a whole lot of aggro. I highly recommend it.
The Shadows tab for templars is a fairly straight forwards proposition. It is here you’ll be able to improve your core healing and buffing. The only real outside pick I made was Rebuked Powers. It adds a DPS reduction to your Mark of Divinity line. I also chose Focused Prayers. I know a lot of raiders don’t use it anymore but I like to have it in a pinch. If you ever need to pull out a little more healing I think it is worthwhile. That really is about it for my choices. I’d be interested in seeing some feedback on them and of course I can answer any questions someone may have.
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Hey Farrel, thanks for posting this, I don’t play a templar, but I am a raid leader/guild leader who is trying to help one of our newer templars get their aas straight.
I do have two questions about your spec:
1. Why didn’t you take the end line for the cleric tree? Sacrifice. I know I use it on my inquisitor some, and that it works kinda like the shaman soulward, massive heal but then you take damage too.
2.Is there a reason you didn’t take manacure even though you spent enough points to get it in the cures?
I’m not a big fan of sacrifice. That may just be a preference thing though. My general rule for healing (and this is why I play plate healers) is that if you’re dead you don’t heal. Sacrifice puts me at a greater risk of being dead. With death prevent and divine guidance I can usually get us through an emergency situation without the risk.
Manacure, in my eyes, is a total waste of points. You can cast it on one player and it will only cure the type of spell that player is casting. That just isn’t consistent enough for me. So if you put it on a wizard who is only casting elemental that is all it will cure and usually not when you need it. Someone may have a lot of parse data to suggest it is worthwhile but speaking from just observational experience it is a waste.
Thanks for the explanation, yeah I never understood manacure, and most my templars scratch their head and shrug and say “well thats what everyone else does” so it must work. lol.
I had heard that the endline on the cleric tree in the former str line (steadfast? the immune to stun) didn’t work well, but I’m glad to see that you’ve had some success with it.
I actually took sacrifice on my inquis and it has saved my tanks butt in a pinch but you have to be careful, definitely, when using it and know when the next aoe is inc or you will be toast so I can see not specing to it.
The templar I am trying to help is really struggling, and I’m probably the worst healer in norrath (healers are DPS!
)so I’m not much help. Thanks for this post!
Glad I could help. Any questions you have just let me know.
For steadfast, it is pretty good but there is a bug with it right now that causes it to fail. It is a 2 second “pulse” buff that kicks off when you stand still and refreshes. It seems stifles can get in while it is refreshing. I’m hoping SOE squashes it pretty soon.
A suggestion to those that may want to use sacrifice… create a macro that once you cast sacrifice on your tank that you cast restoration on yourself. make sure its the step after casting sacrifice tho.. works well for me..and i swear by sacrifice Pre-SF
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I am currently a 55 Templar moving up through the ranks. Eventually I will do raids once I hit 90, but my question is could I use this spec as a group healer? I have str maxed already and working on int on the cleric tree. The end abilities seem to be very benificial to me as a group healer. Right now my heals seem to not heal very strong and I have to almost spam heals non stop when my tank takes 3 mobs. It may be because most of my spells are still adept, but Templar specs are hard to come by and this one seems pretty solid. I have played many mmo’s all of them as a healer. So I know the general rule of how to heal. Any comments or sugestions would be greatly appreciated.
I’m a level 51 templar and I’ve found that i can usually keep a group and tank healed up with reactives and the occasional single target unless they pull something truely retarded. I’ve done some of the mid level raids and while i’ve never played main raid healer i’m usually the secondary. I’ve honestly found that reactives are the most powerful tool available to a group healing templar. with the new UI its even easier all you have to do is watch the timer and hit them again when they go down.
I’m a level 63 Templar and I really Enjoy your spec … It helps me solo Heroic ^^^ at my level … Thank You