Templar Tactical

Woops got on this too slowly, in short no not really. I could probably only justify maybe 2 Sets at most and even then that's pretty excessive. With one being your main DPS set and the other being some sort of defensive set (HP, block or something). In terms of which ones to get though I'd argue that both sets out of IS would be the ones you want in terms of a whole set of mythical gear. 

PvP Isn’t my forte per say, so I figured I’d route them onto two people who are a lot more comfortable with PvP than I am, and the specifics behind your question are also covered. 

Now for a broadened answer I asked two people, just in case one answer wasn’t quite what you were looking for. 

"The short answer to increasing stumble rate on UD is that there is no way to increase it. UD is what it is. Weaving (more chances at the stumble rng % rate) is the only way to increase it. As for rotations, that’s a little hard to answer. Link them my twitch (twitch.tv/aerosgw) and tell them to just pay attention, that’s the best I can do.”Aeros - Siel (NA)

"From my understanding there is no physical movement, outside of weaving to add the chance of, that increases KD rate.Sword Storm, in my experience, has generally been a 30% KD rate vs UD on Temp or Glads. It’s just enough to warrant using it when the option is available and a Glad isn’t full bursting in your face. However, Shield Counter is effective through UD for the sun. This may also proc a chance at face smash as well as a chance at a KD via Swinging Shield Counter. This increases your chances overall, but more importantly adds a sustained and effective method of stunning the Glad (be careful with templars as this may trigger their remove shock Heal. Be prepared to pull immediately to cancel) and disrupting him allowing you either room to move away or to prepare your own burst rotation with Courageous Shield.As far as rotations go, I’m not that great at fighting glads. Apply dazing as often as possible, pull, burst, pull, burst, cry of ridicule for the stun and get away in shield stance until your next burst is up.That’s what I do. probably much better ways to do it.To touch on Sword Storm again, it’s very good to practice slide shotting. Closing the gap while using this skill can make a large difference.”

First question I've had in ages haha, and it's a fairly easy question with a fairly easy answer to it (Luckily for you).

Typically you want Crit and attack or some sort of mixture of the two in your weapons and armor, unless you want to do a bit more defensive slotting for certain instances, but if your looking towards what you can run immediately (Like Tia Stronghold, Rentus, Forest - Manor) Those instances can and should all be done on a PvE dps stigma tree with crit-attack slotted armor.

Mekmek's first impressions:

Vision Stigmas Require 6 stigma combination to open each. Cool concept, by the sounds of it anyway, not sure what exactly this means but if it means I need 6 stigma's to get 1 of these skills would force us into a particular skill would mean more specialized stigma builds, fewer "all round" type of stigma builds, but knowing us we'll end up with a full DPS stigma tree for everything anyway.

 Blood Punishment:

Deal 1257 Physical Damage on a target and drains 50% of the damage as HP. 30sec CD. Sounded so good up until it said 30 seconds CD, would be very effective however, essentially trading HP and getting the better trade off.

 Shield of Vengeance:

For 10sec. creates a shield that reflects 1 skill back at the target. 3min CD. "Reflects" now does this mean like +168 reflect damage or literally sends back a proportion of taken damage back at them, furthermore do we take damage and if so how much is reduced on the reflect? More questions than answers.

 Standing Shield:

For 10sec. Creates a shield that blocks 80& of all damage up to 50,000. Speed is drastically reduced. 3min CD Sounds very cool, it's what Emp Prov wanted to do but couldn't quite manage to do imo, 50,000 damage sounds pretty ridiculous which probably means they're throwing us a hard ball in PvE at 5.0. Can't really see too much practical use of this in PvP primarily because of the "drastically reduced movement speed".

Stigmas 6 Slots (3 normal, 2 greater, 1 gold)

Normal Stigmas:

Punishment, Aether Armor, Inquisitor's Blow, Holy Shield, Incite Rage, Siege Breaker, Punishing Thrust, Barricade of Steel, Divine Fury.

Greater Stigmas:

Magic Smash, Prayer of Victory, Punishing Wave, Divine Justice, Shield of Faith, Prayer of Resilience

Superb Stigmas:

Empyrean Providence, Shield Burst.

Normal stigmas can be equipped in any slot (max 6), greater stigmas can be equipped in greater/superb slot (max 3), superb stigmas can be equipped in superb slot (max 1) Stimga to Skillbook

lvl. 10lvl. 16lvl. 25lvl. 34lvl. 37lvl. 37 lvl. 50lvl. 60

Very cool list to see here, both pulls being made to skills rather than stigma's is a very cool thing to have happen to us, allows us a HUGE amount of play ability with our stigma's, can't see a downside to any of the stigma's here, almost all of them are used frequently, only disappointing to not see AA being there, but apart from that VERY happy to see this change. Deleted Skills

Shield Defense, Weakening Severe Blow, Divine Chastisement(Elyos get Asmo version), Enemy Placement, Provoking Shield Counter, Provoking Severe Blow, Shining Slash, Steel Wall Defense, Blunting Severe Blow, Cry of Ridicule, Shield Retribution(Elyos get Slash Artery), Power of Restoration, Terrible Howl, Righteous Punishment(Asmos get Holy Punishment), Threatening Taunt, Restoration Sacrifice, Morale Wave.

(This is in order) Saw it coming, nobody really used it so not really surprised, Elyos get asmo version? What?, can't remember this skill, I hope we get a replacement on Shining Slash, Pretty underused utility skill sad to see it go, nobody really used this one either, CoR is a very surprising skill to see go looks like NCsoft is making a huge push for Greatsword templar play, Once again reducing number of shield skills (for elyos anyway) interesting move by removing this not sure how to make of this, nobody really used this, nobody really used this either, so...the asmos get the elyos skill and we get the asmo skill? lost in translation I think, not surprised, can't remember this skill, that didn't last very long...

Skill Changes

Dazing Severe Blow: Learned at lvl. 10. Adds PDef decrease. hue

Divine Grasp: CD reduced to 10min. very cool change, zerg fights will never be the same again

Courageous Shield: Learned at lvl. 15 strange move considering it looked like a moment ago they were emphasizing on greatsword templar, don't understand what's up with the change, perhaps just to gameplay rather than balance

Battle Call/Blind Anger: CD reduced to 1min. Heavily implies big PvE content

Illusion Chains: CD reduced to 1min30sec. Any reduction in CD is a good reduction in CD, this is no exception. 

Pitiless Blow: CD reduced to 40sec. Once again, pretty cool reduction in CD.

Prayer of Resilience: Can be used on allies. hue

Prayer of Victory: Duration increased to 3min. hue

Stubborn Spirit: Learned at lvl. 10. Increases your Block by 500, Physical Def by 10%, Stun, Knock Back, Stumble, Spin, and Aerial Thrust Resistance Values by 1000, Immobilization Resist by 1000, Reduce Speed Resist by 1000, Magic Suppression by 700,Magic Resist by 600, and Fear Resist by 300. MR and Fear Resist is coolest idea i've seen yet, huge buff to this skill in general this patch, note MS is still there at +700 

New Skills

Body Smash: Learned at lvl. 10. Chains into Blood Pact I. Potential replacement to shining slash? maybe, not enough details on CD etc.

Other Changes

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I forgot to mention in the question that my temp is going to be strictly (or for the most part) for PvP. That might narrow it down a little for what I want hopefully. But from what I’ve heard from is that the best thing to do is get a good PvE gs.

That's the general idea yeah, ideally if your looking for "the best" PvP greatsword it just so happens to also be "the best" PvE greatsword simply with the best PvP combine underneath that which often means abyss 65a2 4 star weapon, but in my honest opinion if you don't intend to maintain 4 star on your templar, seeing as your strictly using it for PvP purposes the 1 or 2 star greatsword (can't remember which one it was) has borderline the exact same stats as the 4 star variation albeit silence and para resistance penetration. 

To be honest there isn’t really you can get wrong, with an AC top BM bottom you set yourself up for a really nice greatsword which you can use before obtaining a Mythic. If you do not intend to run an instance which drops a mythic (Sauro, IO, etc) then it’s the best you can do. The additional PvP stats on it is small enough however to not really be taken into consideration. 

However, should you wish to run instances which gave a mythic then to be honest I’d wait it out and use a BM gs top for as long as you can stand it, unless you have a lot of spare AC to burn, it’s probably worth the wait. 

Briefly read your question over in my head, and can I just say before we even get to my whole answer I’m particularly biased against Punishing Wave - Shield Burst already before I delve into anything else I’m going to say haha.

Typically what I try to do with my stigma tree used for PvP is some sort of good mix of suitability and burst damage potential, which means I try to sub in either Punishing Thrust or Punishment (either/or but not both at once) to make room for enough survivability stigmas. I try to have either AA or UD in, I’m personally a big MR hero so I more often than not have AA in and kind of trade off UD for a burst skill. Most people would gasp around about here saying that UD is an essential stigma, can’t live without it, etc etc but I find it’s a trade-off-able skill IF your doing group PvP, solo PvP then i’d try to have both AA and UD, especially if this is Arena combat or open world where you just don’t know what you’re going to get. 

IC (Illusion Chains) is a really nice stigma to have and works extremely well in conjunction with the regular doom lure, but as of late I think a lot of people (mostly hipsters) are trying to lean away from it, citing they’d rather have a larger burst potential with PT and Punishment; but I’m old school and I still think there’s a lot of value and use for IC as a stigma for all forms of PvP but especially 1v1 situations. 

Now as to why i don’t think Punishing Wave and Shieldburst are particularly viable is that a) PW has too much of a long cool down for something that is a magical skill (Ie. potential for resists is high) b) What do you achieve by rooting an enemy in a 1v1, both pulls break the cc, it can be used to waste a pot but you don’t neccesarily rely on debuffs stacking as a templar c) The skill’s base MA isn’t very high, which also goes back to my first point but also doesn’t do all too much damage either.

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I’ve already answered parts of your question (namely in relation to the MR set or slotting of MR stones into PvP armor) on this post on my page, reffer to it and I think it’s somewhat relevant to your question.

In relation to Block sets this link contains relevant information on your question, containing detailed information as to how much block you need and why. This link contains a post in relation to Crit/Accuracy and it’s applications along with pro’s and cons. 

Two part question; A) Yes it still is the spec that I use personally for most if not all situations where I need to be in full DPS spec. B) Dekoze answered this question on forums with a fairly simple and straight forward answer; the big hitting skills go first, they generate generally the most enmity of all other actual hitting skills; everything else falls into place and begins to differ from person to person. 

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First part of the question, and second that there isn’t any specific instances which require you to be in either one; Albeit EB Defense group which should most of the time be completed in full PvE tree unless your group says so. 

Holding Enmity in DPS Spec is easy…if you know how to DPS properly; which is often times the hard part as most people without practice struggle; it’s probably as steep of a learning curb as the ability to PvP with the class. The primary idea as mentioned earlier how you hold enmity is by simply doing DPS, is simple as that sounds it’s not exactly simple and generally takes time, and quite a lot of it to master it; There are a few guides out there; here’s one that’s quite popular (based on pure hit post hit #’s) 

http://forums.na.aiononline.com/na/showthread.php?t=127624

I haven’t read through it thoroughly, nor have I given the thread much in the means of my attention but from what I’ve gathered and the fact that it hasn’t received much criticism from peers suggest to me that it’s probably a sound piece of work. The author is also fairly genuine and seems to post constructive things most of the time, albeit the phase he went through believing that MB Templars are viable for PvE.