Have you Chosen the Path of Templar?

[Zandorgard]

I have chosen to follow the noble path of the Templar. o/
And I chose the Templar because of some factors, i will give you ten:

1. I usually play as tank in MMOs. Its my style and imo i have the cold blood needed to NEVER run away when your Hp is almost gone.
2. You are also the first one to enter an area, and sometimes the last to leave. You usually lead the party and need to choose the right path, what enemies can you hold off and never forget that most of the time your party survival depends on your habilities to hold the line.
3. On RPGs i love to RolePlay Paladins and Knights, so as an RPlayer, i really like the Templar.
4. I dont mind being useless in 1x1 PvP. If i have good skills to be a good asset on group PvP, wich the Templar seems to have.
5. Come on! Epic names FTW! I totally agree with you Theron! xD
6. Sword and Shield looks very very nice!
7. Those kickass heavy armors! *-*~
8. If im not mistaken, in the videos the templar have the skill to attract monsters atention. Thats VERY usefull in PvE, almost a must have for any party. If they get the skill to absorb the damage taken by party members... Man, templars will be AWESOME and a MUST in any battle.
9. Being able to stand your ground on the front line... Tanking face to face that huge badass raid boss that would kill almost any other person, man... there is no price to that feeling.
10. To be able to die for your party, hero style, priceless... This one always sells me out to the tanking classes.

So, imo, the coolest class to play evah! ^___^~

AND... as i finished posting, i saw Otium's post. I must quote him because he said it very well! o>

Originally Posted by Otium

Tankers always have an unbelievable advantage in PvP: No one cares about them. Since they have so much HP and a huge quantity of P.def, no one actually bothers to first target them since it's quite pointless as long as he's being healed.

Hence, even if Templars deal low damage - which was confirmed already by beta players - no one will try to avoid you since they keep in mind that you are not going to be of any harm. However, you'll be able to freely root and stun people. Stunning a healer for example, is pretty much game over for him.

Also, keep in mind that even if you deal low damage, you'll survive for so long that you might just be able to wipe your opponent.

All this is applied to partyVSparty PvP. 1vs1 should be a different story but... who cares about it when we'll be rolling masses and sieges at the abyss?

[Ryoku]

im new here kinda...
never posted, but "been watching from the sidelines" :>
im gonna go templar cause of the simple fact that in L2, i played a DarkAvenger/HellKnight (a tank) as my main class.
im pretty much used to playing as a tank, and good in pvp with them, wether it be 1v1 or 1v2.
its the ability to survive and last the longest that catches me. and in L2, a DA does pretty good damage. now, i dunno if templars in Aion are gonna have such offensive capabilities like a DA from L2, but i hope so, and ill be willing to play one.
either way, wether a templar can or cannot serve as a somewat offensive class at least up to a certain limit, so that it can deal enough damage that its fairly noticable, Templar will be my first choice in Aion. if it doesnt turn out as i wanted, my next choice would be a gladiator.

i believe that with exceptional gear, a tank can be somewat OP in pvp, at least 1v1

[Duncan Gallagher]

Dont forget... you can always boost a Templar with some Stigmatas of Assasin/Gladiators or other Classes

[Ryoku]

Translated version of http://www.thisisgame.com/aion/skilldb.php?postback=1&job=2

skill list up to lvl 40

compare taht with the warrior skill list. the templar is more defensive orientated, BUT, it has nice offensive skills as well, mostly reflecting i think tbh.
but, like i said, if you compare that with the warrior's skill list, last skills of a warrior deal out about 500 dmg, while the last skills of a templar deal about 300. not bad imo, but still good ENOUGH...

[Otium]

Originally Posted by Ryoku

but, like i said, if you compare that with the warrior's skill list, last skills of a warrior deal out about 500 dmg, while the last skills of a templar deal about 300. not bad imo, but still good ENOUGH...

But that small difference happens in the "lower" levels. As soon as you approach end game, the damage gap will be way bigger, otherwise there was no point in playing Gladiator. Just get used to the idea of your tanking purposes as a tanker. You can't expect to deal a lot of damage in battle and neither are you asked to.

[Theron]

I am personally not expecting a Templar to be a dps machine. The reason they seperated the Knight Class into a dps Gladiator and defense oriented Templar is reason enough for that. I mostly want the Templar to be good in PvE as well as PvP. Dps classes get this easy since all they really need is one stat and that is DPS.

Tanks have it tought being in the center of fighting and still trying to be useful. Being good in PvP doesn't mean dpsing your opponent down either. Helping your team survive is a very good way to help in PvP, a Templar's duty is to protect its group which I hope they allow in this game.

Games such as WoW make tanks nothing more than big bodies of hit points that can't do anything, not even do their job which is to protect their team. That is the biggest weakness in WoW for the prot warrior. There have been many ideas too to help the tank become better such as the idea of allowing the Tank to absorb damage their party takes or allowing taunt to cause their target to hit for less damage against anyone but the one who taunted them.

Templars are big walking hp and defense platforms from what I see. I just hope they allow us to use that to help our team and dont ecpect us to run around trying to stunlock people with shield bashes and other stuns which doesn't help a ton in PvP when you think large scale.

[Diablo]

With out us Templars the rest of these scrubs would be dead in minutes.

Tanks are fun, going toe to toe with the biggest baddest mofos the game can throw at you and ask for more.

[Pancak3s]

Asmodian Templar.

Female character OFC.

[Xiy]

I'm thinking about templar, cleric or spiritmaster at this point, and maybe sorcerer. I have a while to decide

[unForsaken]

Tanks are fun indeed. I simply like to be the meat shield and know that I kind of keep the team alive.

I already have some stigma involving ideas up my sleeve to make my Templar playable in 1vs1 PVP but 1vs1 certainly won't be the primary use for my char.

[Duncan Gallagher]

Originally Posted by unForsaken

Tanks are fun indeed. I simply like to be the meat shield and know that I kind of keep the team alive.

I already have some stigma involving ideas up my sleeve to make my Templar playable in 1vs1 PVP but 1vs1 certainly won't be the primary use for my char.

Jeah we will prove that Templars can fight if they want. ^^

Got some nice ideas too. ^^

[VendorTrash]

Ill prolly box a Templar/Cleric combo.

[Aragros]

No cash for box

Looking in vids I’m just wonder about templar skills. As u can see o those screens animations is around char and in other when mob hits a templar skill probably absorb damage.
I wonder if this going to be smth like ultimate defense in l2 or just random chance to absorb.

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[Azorothai]

Templar
n : a knight of a religious military order established in 1118
to protect pilgrims and the Holy Sepulcher [syn: Knight
Templar, Templar]

Yes I am a fan of the medieval era Knights walking about in resplendent armour for the glory of whatever it is their doing just makes me all happy! ^^ Also, the armour in Aion looks a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Also the weapons. I'm not really chuffed if Templars do well in PvP or not. I just want tanks to have a role in a PvP situation. Using taunts, and throwing shields about to protect their members, so the enemy actually have to try and kill the templar because he is the defender of the group ( and hes being a pain in the @$$ hehe), and getting rid of him opens the path to the squishies. I haven't seen this performed in an MMO before (WAR is planning something like this) so I'm quite eager to see any news about this

[Lucio]

Originally Posted by Duncan Gallagher

Dont forget... you can always boost a Templar with some Stigmatas of Assasin/Gladiators or other Classes

Haha yeah im hoping that stigmas will go this way also. All i want is the heaviest main hand i can get. Best melee and magic defense while buffing my main in w/e way i can. Then ill just work my sword into whoever is being the biggest pest on the battlefield and ofcourse ill have my crew rolling with me. (not dumb enough to fight alone as a templar hehe)