Spell versus Melee DPS ?

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<p>I had an interesting conversation in 70-79 chat the other day concerning the DPS of templars.  Interestingly it started with some inquisitor bragging how he was outparsing wizards and others in level chat agreeing with him.  I was hearing he would easily hit 3.5k or more on parses.</p><p>Well as a templar I asked in general why we didn't get anything like this, maybe not as DPS but maybe along the lines of utilities or higher healing.  Don't get me wrong I'm happy with my Templar, I can solo anything and am pretty much indestructable, but if I could parse like this inq claims then I could solo much faster.  Additionally in instance content I'm quite happy with my healing capabilities and find myself with extra time during fights after putting up all my reactives and all my debuffs to both melee and also throw down damage spells.  I'm maxxed out in spell crit, have all my spells maxxed in the templar line for damage, and have 100% melee crit but I've never parsed close to what the inq says he parses.</p><p>So anyhow I brought this up in level chat and there were many who said that Templars could parse very high as well.  I took this with a grain of salt, but figured I would ask.  They mentioned the flurry ability and also the yaulp TSO improvement as primary DPS increasers.   Which brings me to my original question, is a straight melee spec really that powerful for a Templar?</p><p>I've never used Yaulp that much as I felt I lost too much spell DPS from it, but maybe I've been barking up the wrong tree?  Is melee DPS that much stronger than spell DPS overall?</p><p>Just looking for some interesting conversation on this.</p>

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<p>I am currently building my templar for spell DPS. I am fully spec'd in that direction and have equip geared towards that. I am not yet 80 but i have an Inquisitor of similar level Melee speced and i get the impression the the Templar can pull similar DPS so far. I'll check back in when i am done leveling up but I believe it comes down to focus. if either class focuses in that direction they can achieve good DPS numbers, alot of it will have to do with your group. I suspect the Inquisitor was well buffed to achieve the numbers you were talking about and very likely the maged he was outparsing were not buffed as well.</p><p>Last weekend I took my Mystic out in shard of hate and was out parsing some wizards. This doesnt mean i outparse them all the time but the fighs were well suited to my burst dps and a wizard needs a few seconds to ramp up the DPS to not pull aggro.</p><p>I'll follow up on my templar experiment soonish. Which btw is fully spell DPS. not using yaulp.</p>