Returning Templar - Need help!

[Misery]

<p>Hey there!</p><p>I came back to the game as a level 50 templar.  I have not played seriously since the Desert of Flames expansion &i would really love for someone to answer these questions!  for myself and for other returning players!</p><p>What are some good AA builds for raiding, grouping, and soloing?  Are there any websites or tools people use to share builds?  Does anyone have any advice?</p><p>Gear, what stats should I be looking for while leveling to 90, but also for entering the raiding world at 90?  Are templars still desired in raids? </p><p>How do we templars compare to fury/warden or mystic/defiler?</p><p>How do you get gear and spells?  Will it come as you quest/group through or are there other ways to gear up?  whats the standard as of today when leveling up and also when trying to get into raids at 90?</p><p>- ive always played the traditional cleric class in every game.. i love it!  i would be really happy to see some feedback on this post!  thanks guys <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  any info about templars is awesome.. ive looked at the forums and there isnt much info except outdated stuff lol</p>

[Mel1206]

<p><cite>Misery wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What are some good AA builds for raiding, grouping, and soloing?  Are there any websites or tools people use to share builds?  Does anyone have any advice?</p><p>Gear, what stats should I be looking for while leveling to 90, but also for entering the raiding world at 90?  Are templars still desired in raids? </p><p>How do we templars compare to fury/warden or mystic/defiler?</p><p>How do you get gear and spells?  Will it come as you quest/group through or are there other ways to gear up?  whats the standard as of today when leveling up and also when trying to get into raids at 90?</p></blockquote><p>1.  Depends on who you group with.  There is a tree suggestion in this thread:  <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=470675">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=470675</a>  with a whole lot of debate afterwards.  EQ2Flames.com is another good resource.</p><p>2. WIS!!!  This contributes to your heals, resistability of your hostile spells and DPS. (this is new with the latest expansion)  STA is also good - as it contrivutes to your health, and finally INT will contribute to your Crit Mit</p><p>3.  Again a lot of debate on this. Clerics can be frustrating b/c they are slow casters, but then so are the shammies.  In a MT group, Clerics (esp. Templars b/c of thier stoneskin) and Shammies are preferred.  Druids are preferred for caster groups (and I think Inquisitors - but I am not positive about that)  If you are a good healer, it really doesn't matter what kind of healer you are. (at least for regular grouping)</p><p>4.  Temps are highly desired in raids (see above) and I could go on and on about gear.  Run the group zones, start there and with Mark gear - then upgrade as you can  (look at shard gear for the T8 stuff as you level - though you may not be there for long&nbsp<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>5.  Spells - when you hit the 80s - just shoot for your experts - if you can't mine, then I hope you have some moolah - as you need Ulteran Diamonds to make your experts.  Once to have the expert, your can get a research assistant to create your master spell, or you can get them as a drop in group or raid zones.  As for gear - the best gear is gotten through grouping.  Starting with tier 8 stuff, you can get shards to create special armor (some people can make), and for Tier 9 you will need marks.  You can complete solo quests to get shards or marks - but that would be a very long and arduous task to get all of your gear, better to get these through groups. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Good luck!  & Have fun!! </p>

[TheOnlyOneLeft]

<p>Just going to point out some misinformation here, so you don't get confused:</p><p><cite>Mel1206 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite> </cite></p><p>2. WIS!!!  This contributes to your heals, resistability of your hostile spells and DPS. (this is new with the latest expansion)  STA is also good - as it contrivutes to your health, and finally INT will contribute to your Crit Mit</p></blockquote><p>2) Wisdom does <em>not </em>affect your heals until you get your mythical, which (as a templar) has a buff that adds extra healing to your Reactives; wisdom also does not affect the resistability of <em>your</em> spells, but rather helps you resist incoming enemy spells.</p><p>Wisdom will increase your total power, magic resistance, and your damage spells, auto attack dmg, and combat arts</p><p><cite>Misery wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>3) How do we templars compare to fury/warden or mystic/defiler?</p><p>4) How do you get gear and spells?  Will it come as you quest/group through or are there other ways to gear up?  whats the standard as of today when leveling up and also when trying to get into raids at 90?</p></blockquote><p>3) Templars are debatably the best overall healing class; they add tons of survivability and have good defensive capabilities; they buff less offensively than mystics and inquisitors, but heal a lot better</p><p>4) You generally get gear from quest rewards and doing zones.  Spells are learned automatically, but you learn very low quality spells (Apprentice quality).  To upgrade the quality, you need to get other players, who are sages (they make priest and mage spells), to make higher quality spells (Expert quality); while you usually get even higher quality spells (Master quality) from killing Raid mobs or doing heroic zones</p>

[EQPrime]

<p>Don't forget to use a research assistant to upgrade your spells from expert to master.  You can start working on Reverence, Sanctuary, and Divine Arbitration early on, as those 3 spells never get upgraded.</p><p>Make sure to do your epic weapon quest at level 80.  You don't have to worry about getting the mythical portion of that one done, just do the epic repercussions line at 85 and you'll be in good shape.</p><p>For entry into raiding your best bet is to get some gear from heroic instances and carry some brellium resist jewelry sets.  That should be enough to keep you alive in the easier raid zones and you can probably find room in a pickup.</p><p>Aim for 200+ AAs by level 90 too if you can.</p>

[Jevangal]

<p>I used to raid frequently but what I'm about to say is based on the way it was before SF.  If this has now changed, I'd be grateful if somebody could point out the changes so I can improve my own healing.  Anyway, here is how it used to be:</p><p>Furies are good in caster groups because of +int buffs, fast HoTs (wardens are also fast casters so can sometimes be used as squishie group healer) and other abilities; in most raids I've been in, the inq gets put in the melee dps group.</p><p>Templar is almost always in main tank group with a shaman (usually a defiler in my experience).  If a coercer is in the MT group, coercive healing is a good bet (but there is some debate over whether the shaman or templar should benefit from this).</p><p>If you find yourself in the MT group, it would be a good idea to get shield ally from the Agi AA line on the cleric tree (there is plenty of info on shield ally both here and on eq2flames).  In short, shield ally gives the MT a second avoidance check after their own has been rolled.  So anything getting through the MT's mit might get prevented by shield ally.  To get the most of shield ally, you will need a shield with high protection with an adornment that increases the +block%.  Also, get a +parry% item onto each wrist slot; it needs to be +parry%, not +parry.  The latter has no effect on shield ally. </p><p>However, I'm still learning about the new adornments and shield ally might have been tampered with so take the above with a pinch of salt!  I'm sure someone will correct me if my info is out of date!</p>

[EQPrime]

<p><cite>Jevangal@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I used to raid frequently but what I'm about to say is based on the way it was before SF.  If this has now changed, I'd be grateful if somebody could point out the changes so I can improve my own healing.  Anyway, here is how it used to be:</p><p>Furies are good in caster groups because of +int buffs, fast HoTs (wardens are also fast casters so can sometimes be used as squishie group healer) and other abilities; in most raids I've been in, the inq gets put in the melee dps group.</p><p>Templar is almost always in main tank group with a shaman (usually a defiler in my experience).  If a coercer is in the MT group, coercive healing is a good bet (but there is some debate over whether the shaman or templar should benefit from this).</p><p>If you find yourself in the MT group, it would be a good idea to get shield ally from the Agi AA line on the cleric tree (there is plenty of info on shield ally both here and on eq2flames).  In short, shield ally gives the MT a second avoidance check after their own has been rolled.  So anything getting through the MT's mit might get prevented by shield ally.  To get the most of shield ally, you will need a shield with high protection with an adornment that increases the +block%.  Also, get a +parry% item onto each wrist slot; it needs to be +parry%, not +parry.  The latter has no effect on shield ally. </p><p>However, I'm still learning about the new adornments and shield ally might have been tampered with so take the above with a pinch of salt!  I'm sure someone will correct me if my info is out of date!</p></blockquote><p>Shield ally is still good but the bracelet adorns don't exist anymore.  You can get a necklace adorn with riposte % on it and use parry % or dodge % food to boost shield ally though.</p><p>Also, coercive healing should pretty much always go to the shammy.</p>

[Jevangal]

<p><cite>Uguv@Mistmoore wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Shield ally is still good but the bracelet adorns don't exist anymore.  You can get a necklace adorn with riposte % on it and use parry % or dodge % food to boost shield ally though.</p></blockquote><p>Thanks for the info.</p><p>The food and drink are useful and I use them each time; I'll look out for those adorns and get them sorted asap.  Going off memory, I'm pretty sure my existing wrist items still have the +parry% (but I could be wrong): have they just removed the ability to create new adorns?</p>

[Jevangal]

<p>Actually, scratch that previous comment.  My existing wrist adorns have been changed to +block%</p>