Templar

Overview

The Templar is a playable Class in Aion 2.

The Templar is a classic tank wielding a shield and one-handed sword.

With exceptional defense and a variety of skills to protect allies from enemy attacks, they are indispensable as frontline tanks in party play.

The Templar is the main tank class in Aion and as a result, most Templar skills are focused on increasing defense, controlling enemy focus, and reducing damage. The Templar is lacking in high damage skills. Templars are very limited in the weapons they can wield and usually wield a sword or mace and shield combination with a greatsword as backup.

Based on Feedback from Focus Group Testing, the class is expected to be improved considerably for Aion 2, with greater mobility and smooth attack chains.

Playstyle

Smooth attack chains, flashy and effective pulls, and strong survivability and utility with shield/defense. While slow moving, the Templar has more than one skill that can close gaps with enemies, be it by pulling mobs or ramming through them with a shielded skill. The Templar also excels at absorbing party damage and taunting mobs, keeping the enemy’s attention on them at all times. Templar’s passive abilities are heavily leaned toward defense, damage tolerance, and auxiliary shields that trigger once a condition is met.

The Templar is ill-fitted for distance fighting, and the few skills that can deal significant damage at a distance suffer from both a short distance of effect and long cooldowns, so you are better off continuously pushing for melee presence and damage.

Active Skills

The active skills below require an input from the player and make up the bulk of Templar combat in AION 2.

• Ferocious Strike
• Pummel
• Poach
• Shield Smite
• Judgment
• Flash Rampage
• Debilitating Smash
• Warding Strike
• Shield Rush
• Annihilate
• Punishment
• Defiance

Focus Group Feedback

Feedback indicated that this class is a Tank with high mobility, which felt much faster than in the original Aion. Testers felt that this class was one of the most improved classes when compared with the original game.