ReverendBizzarre: ele cleave templar [6k life, 45k+ dps]

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TheDrake wrote:

Hi Victor!

First of all I'd like to thank you for this great guide - I've leveled a templar to 50 in default and it's really fun to play!

Now I'm thinking about starting a Ranger (as it seems even more fun) in hardcore and have a few questions:

1) How would you recommend to progress: take Iron Reflexes first (with surrounding nodes)? But then what? Should I go for the duelist part of tree or move towards the centre and take all these life nodes? When to go for templar nodes? Are things like Twin Terrors, Blade Barrier and Deep thought considered as final touches of should I take them early?

2) How do deal with intelligence requirements (for wrath and anger) early in the game? Should I try to wear extra int gear?

Thanks in advance for your help :)

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Frustrasian wrote:

Hey vic, i've noticed there is a massive life node branch right above the ele wep damage branch near iron reflexes, was wondering if it was smarter to take this than invest in the points into iron reflexes? as we could just get pure AR based gear instead of eva and will give us a nice boost in life as well.

seems like its worth getting into as its really close, gives us 66% increase in life and +20 to str as well, maybe its worth while not getting some nodes like atm i have no problems with mana at all but im only running two auras however and i think the steel skin armour circle can be ignored since we're running so many endurance charges and granites as well. i'm already at 20k armour with 92% reduction. Personally i find life to be a lot more important especially in hardcore. This could save us alot of passive points and just grab all the life nodes up top instead of the steel skin

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Frustrasian wrote:

I'm not even running determination, i only run purity and wrath

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elitedesolator wrote:

Hi Vic,

Great build, just started leveling a Templar yesterday and got to level 23 in about 2.5 hours. Real fun compared to most ranged classes which I played almost exclusively.

I took a closer look at the passive tree though and I have two questions:

1. What are your thoughts on getting Inner Force since the build uses quite a lot of Auras?

2. I was wondering why you would opt to take so many 8% life nodes in the center and duelist areas instead of getting the Marauder's starting life nodes and the 15% resist all node?

3. What "alternative" support skills have you found useful? From the build I saw that you use Rejuvenation Totem (does it lose effectiveness as you reach high health?), Enduring Cry etc. What are your thoughts on things like Bear Trap or Spell Totem (which Spell Totem did you find most useful) or Molten Shell etc.? Sorry if that's a bit messy as I'm currently attempting to think of a few possibilities.

I'm quite sure these questions have been asked before, but I would highly appreciate it if you could elaborate on your thinking once more.

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magicrectangle wrote:

I like skelly totem, really takes the pressure off on bosses and such.

I also love inner force, but of course I'm eldritch battery so I'm stacked with all manner of auras/buffs.

Thanks to EB, I have a ton of mana regen that doesn't really have anywhere to go, so as I keep getting more mana/regen I keep leveling arctic armor. Arctic armor is now level 14, and I just run it 100% of the time because I can (except mana maps).

It started out as just something to do with my mana, and it is always nice against voidbearers. But now at level 14, with inner force it is 139 fire/physical damage reduction. As it turns out, with 83% fire resist, that is enough to be completely immune to titty monsters. Being immune to voidbearers was interesting, but they weren't all that much of a threat anyway. Being immune to titty monsters though, is freaking awesome.

I'm also functionally immune to undying incinerators, and take very little damage from axiom firemages. The physical damage reduction isn't all that great, since physical tends to come in pretty big chunks, but it does work pretty well against archers, unless they have that orange "significant extra physical" aura.

If I can get up to ~250 mana regen (which isn't unreasonable) I'll take arctic armor all the way to 20. Obviously I'm not going to sacrifice life or armor to get there, as the main things that can actually kill are the big physical hitting bosses / chargers, but without really looking specifically for it, my mana just keeps rising (190 regen at the moment), so I'll get there eventually I think.