New Templar - Need advice on AA's

[VN-Cry]

<DIV>I have a new templar I'd like to level and I don't want to make too many mistakes along the way. I need to know what AA's to put into.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <UL> <LI>I'd like to use a 1-handed hammer and shield and have AA's that compliment that.</LI> <LI>This character will mainly be used for grouping and healing in random pickup teams of 2+, PVP, and raids</LI> <LI>I am not worried about DPS at all.</LI></UL> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any advice appreciated. Thanks!</DIV>

[Mabes]

<DIV>For a straight healing achievement build, I would go with:</DIV> <DIV>sta 4/4/5/8 and int 4/4/4/8/1 in the cleric line, going down sta first</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>and for the templar line would go down the blessings and reactive cure lines.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Basically, the best ones for healing are the increase to healing crit chance, increased casting speed, and then the cure reactives and improved buffs/debuffs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>There are other opinions on this board as far as achievement lines go, but I would recommend this if you want to focus on healing abilities.</DIV>

[Antryg Mistrose]

On a pvp server you may find cleric Agi usefull, but dropping Sta or Int for it is a tough call (the final ability of the int line is very nice for your group and the advantages of upping healing spell criticals are self evident)  While levelling I respecced a couple of times, as having 7 unused points while you save up for the final ability in a line is a waste.  Any excess points can temporarily find a home in increasing your Wisdom (power & resists)<div></div>The spell descriptions are pretty good and none of the abilities are broken as far as I know, so as there aren't a wole heap of pvp templars posting here (I'm not) you may want to play about with respeccing once you have a decent number of points.  Beware the escalating respec costs though - 10plat is the cap (ouch)