This is a video showcasing a Stamina Templar rotation. This is good to go for Elsweyr, and is optimised for PVE 12-man Trials.

If you’ve seen the Stamina Templar DW rotation I posted during PTS 5.0.0, then it’s going to be familiar. I didn’t really change anything, I’m just redoing this so that I have an updated offering for each class in Elsweyr. This class has a lot of potential, but right now it’s fair to say it lags behind the other Stamina classes.

This is a rotation performed on the new Raid Dummy. This means there are a selection of buffs and debuffs present, which allows easy comparison between different classes, and for other players to compare against each other, if they wish, as a ‘solo’ player, without the need of help from another player; a really valuable addition to the game.

I am using the Max Stam/Stam Regen food for all Stamina setups in these comparison tests. The key is to simulate raid sustain. Gear-wise, I am using Velidreth and Perfected Relequen / Lokkestiiz, which looks to be the best bet for many situations.

Combat Metrics Parse from Video (90.2k) — https://i.imgur.com/EjLF3Ws.png
Build as seen in Video — https://i.imgur.com/u8MTaZx.png

Before I discuss the Stamplar-specific details, let me highlight the important changes which lead me to suggest this rotation.
– Puncturing Strikes: Reduced the channel time for this ability and its morphs from to 1 seconds from 1.1 seconds. Praise the sun for whole numbers!
– Radial Sweep: Increased the radius of this ability and its morphs to 8 meters from 6 meters.
– Empowering Sweep (morph): Redesigned this morph to offer damage, rather than survivability. The damage pulse after the initial hit now lasts 6 seconds at base, but is increased by 2 seconds for each enemy hit, up to a maximum of 6 enemies. It also now grants Empower for the duration, rather than Major Protection.
– Power of the Light: Adjusted the ability rank up for this morph so it no longer gains damage on the initial hit, but instead increases the duration of Minor Fracture and Breach applied, since that is the focus of the morph. This will result in approximately a 3% damage loss on the initial hit, but the duration of the Minor Fracture and Breach will last 9 seconds, up from 6 seconds at their final rank.

The Jabs change doesn’t really impact the rotation that much – it’s been strong for a while. The Empowering Sweep change is pretty nice. At base, it does roughly the same damage as Ballista, accounting for the Empower bonus. When there are more enemies around, the ultimate will probably become really strong. Imagine using this ultimate on the vHOF triplets, or even in trash fights. The most important is the Power of the Light (POTL) change. Up until now, the explosion damage of POTL is bugged and often does 0 damage in trial content. This is a DPS loss of around 3-4k in pure Single Target fights. A fair assumption I have made is that Templar Healers will still exist in groups, and with the Minor Fracture/Breach debuff now lasting 9 seconds, it is easy to keep up. For this reason, I have completely omitted POTL from my Stamplar setup.

— Rotation

Refresh Rending Slashes and Rearming Trap as soon as possible after they have run out. Use Empowering Sweep relatively early on in the backbar rotation, to try and get the best chance from the Burning Light procs. You won’t be getting them otherwise when not jabbing. Otherwise, fill the time by using Jabs. Simple as that.

I basically fill up ‘unneeded’ bar slots with Fighters Guild abilities. I have 6 Fighters Guild abilities slotted. The only necessary ones are Trap and Dawnbreaker on the front bar. If extra sustain and/or survivability is needed, then Restoring Focus can be slotted on the backbar. Shards are a handy option to also have on the backbar for that extra bit of utility and sustain.

At this point, there are probably a few questions – Why no Whirling Blades? Why no Shards in rotation? Why no POTL in rotation?
Whirling blades isn’t good for a few reasons. It is expensive. The ability in itself does pretty good damage in execute when I use it, however then I also lose my source of Burning Light procs, which means I need to also slot Shards and use those to get the Burning Light procs instead. I also probably need to slot Restoring Focus for the extra sustain. Not worth it. Using Shards in rotation is an outright DPS loss – clearer to see with the Raid Dummy. POTL actually does good DPS, but as mentioned earlier, it’s busted and healers have a much easier time to keep it up now with the change so it is unnecessary.

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