Looking for a dedicated tank or meat-shield in the middle of a fight? You don’t need to look further, especially if you have a Templar in your party. Templars are excellent defensive warriors, capable of withstanding enormous amount of punishment while maintaining a balanced offensive capability. They have the ability to heal themselves, use buffs to enhance protection and resistance and even protect a team mate and take all the damage unto themselves. Templars can also effectively cast chants of protection and heal even while under direct assault, making them invaluable allies in the frontlines. They can use swords and maces as their primary weapons (they have the option to wield a two-handed sword as well) and their ever trusty shields on the other hand. Templars and gladiators carry the same gears. The only main difference that since templars are more defense oriented, their weapon choices are limited compared to gladiators.
The Templars’ combat skill tree has a natural mixture of buffs, sword and shield skills. Some of the most notable defensive skills unique to templars include Deity Armor, (recover 25% of max HP, increase max HP by 50%, HP regeneration by 50 for 3min) Double Armor (removes all debuffs, absorbs 50% damage for 30 seconds) and Iron Wall to name a few. Some of the templars most effective combos are counterattacks while their shields are raised and after deflecting an attack. A good example is the Shield Block – Shield Counterattack – Shield Charge combo that not only cancels the aggressor’s attack, but deals damage, stuns and knocks down in return. This will leave the stunned attacker open for your own or your party’s chain attacks. Templars are also good in building threat and aggro, making them very effective in controlling enemy mobs and taking their attention away from the templars’ team mates. While in flight, templars can use a unique passive skill that can increase their stamina and agility by 10 as well their flying speed by a certain percentage. On land, templars are not very mobile characters one of the obvious Templar strategies in this case would be flying, a decision that must be made whenever the situation calls for it.
Being an Aion templar may require above average dedication since players need to know what skill to use and when to use it in order to fight effectively. Being the real tank and all, things can get hairy in a short notice, especially when fighting a huge number of enemies. Templars can very much handle themselves alone but their real strength is displayed in protecting others and fighting in a party.
