The Elder Scrolls Online: Templar Skills – Aedric Spear

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Templar Abilities
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Aedric Spear is one of three class skill lines available to Templar characters. Skills in this line focus on melee weapon attacks. Aedric Spear has an associated skill line that is revealed through leveling up your character, whilst using that class. Known abilities are listed below.

Ultimate Abilities
These abilities must be activated manually, for a cost of Ultimate.

Skill	Skill Type	Unlock	Cost	Cast Time (Duration)	Range/Radius (Target)
	Ultimate	Aedric Spear Rank 12	75 Ultimate	Instant	6m radius (Area)
Radial Sweep Swing your Aedric Spear around with Holy Vengeance, dealing 1943 Magic Damage to all nearby enemies and an additional 944 Magic Damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds.
		(Radial Sweep Rank IV)	75 Ultimate	Instant	6m radius
Empowering Sweep (Morph) Swing your Aedric Spear around with Holy Vengeance, dealing 2003 Magic Damage to all nearby enemies and an additional 944 Magic Damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. Also reduces damage dealt to you by 15% for 10 seconds, plus an additional 4% for each enemy hit. Take reduced damage for each enemy hit.
		(Radial Sweep Rank IV)	75 Ultimate	Instant	6m radius
Crescent Sweep (Morph) Swing your Aedric Spear around with Holy Vengeance, dealing 2003 Physical Damage to all nearby enemies and an additional 944 Physical Damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. Enemies in front of you take 66% more initial damage. Deals Physical Damage and also deals additional damage to enemies in front of you.

Active Abilities
These abilities must be activated manually, for a cost.

Skill	Skill Type	Unlock	Cost	Cast Time (Duration)	Range/Radius (Target)
	Active	Aedric Spear Rank 1	2952 Magicka	1.1s Channel	8m range (Area)
Puncturing Strikes Launch a Relentless Assault, striking enemies in front of you four times with your Aedric Spear and dealing 274 Magic Damage with each strike. The closest enemy takes 140% additional damage each strike, and their Movement Speed is reduced by 70% for 2 seconds on the final hit.
		(Puncturing Strikes Rank IV)	2509 Stamina	1.1s Channel	8m range (Area)
Biting Jabs (Morph) Launch a Relentless Assault, striking enemies in front of you four times with your Aedric Spear and dealing 285 Physical Damage with each strike. The nearest enemy takes 140% additional damage each strike, and their Movement Speed is reduced by 70% for 2 seconds on the final hit. Also grants you Major Savagery, increasing your Weapon Critical rating by 2191 for 8 seconds. Converts to a Stamina ability, and increases your Weapon Critical Strike rating when used.
		(Puncturing Strikes Rank IV)	2952 Magicka	1.1s Channel	8m range (Area)
Puncturing Sweep (Morph) Launch a Relentless Assault, striking enemies in front of you four times with your Aedric Spear and dealing 285 Magic Damage with each strike. The nearest enemy takes 140% additional damage each strike, and their Movement Speed is reduced by 70% for 2 seconds on the final hit. Also heals you for 35% of the damage done. Also heals you for a percentage of the damage done.
	Active	Aedric Spear Rank 4	4050 Magicka	Instant	28m range (Enemy)
Piercing Javelin Hurl your spear at an enemy with godlike strength, dealing 1264 Magic Damage, Stunning them for 1.8 seconds, and knocking them back 5 meters.
		(Piercing Javelin Rank IV)	4050 Magicka	Instant	28m range (Enemy)
Aurora Javelin (Morph) Hurl your spear at an enemy with godlike strength, dealing 1304 Magic Damage, Stunning them for 1.8 seconds, and knocking them back 5 meters. Deals up to 40% additional damage based on the distance the spear travels. Deals additional damage based on the distance the spear travels.
		(Piercing Javelin Rank IV)	3442 Stamina	Instant	28m range (Enemy)
Binding Javelin (Morph) Hurl your spear at an enemy with godlike strength, dealing 1303 Physical Damage, stunning them for 3.5 seconds, and knocking them back 5 meters. Converts into a Stamina ability, and stuns the enemy for a longer duration.
	Active	Aedric Spear Rank 20	3510 Magicka	Instant	3.5-22m range (Enemy)
Focused Charge Charge with your Divine Lance to Impale an enemy, dealing 1555 Magic Damage. If the enemy hit is casting, they are Interrupted and Stunned for 3 seconds.
		(Focused Charge Rank IV)	3510 Magicka	Instant	3.5-22m range 5m radius (Enemy)
Explosive Charge (Morph) Charge with your Divine Lance to Impale all enemies in the area, dealing 1603 Magic Damage. Any enemy hit that is casting is Interrupted and Stunned for 3 seconds. Deals damage and interrupts all enemies near the point of impact.
		(Focused Charge Rank IV)	3510 Magicka	Instant	3.5-22m range (Enemy)
Toppling Charge (Morph) Charge with your Divine Lance to Impale an enemy, dealing 1555 Magic Damage and Stunning them for 2.4 seconds. If the enemy hit is casting, they are Interrupted and set Off Balance for 5 seconds. Always stuns the enemy, regardless if they are casting. Also sets them Off Balance if they are casting.
	Active	Aedric Spear Rank 30	3240 Magicka	Instant (6s)	25m range 8m radius (Ground)
Spear Shards Send your spear into the heavens to bring down a Shower of Divine Wrath, dealing 1070 Magic Damage to enemies in the area and an additional 188 Magic Damage every 1 second for 8 seconds. While active, an ally can activate the Blessed Shards Synergy, restoring 3960 Magicka or Stamina, whichever maximum is higher.
		(Spear Shards Rank IV)	3240 Magicka	Instant (6s)	25m range 8m radius (Ground)
Luminous Shards (Morph) Send your spear into the heavens to bring down a Shower of Divine Wrath, dealing 1101 Magic Damage to enemies in the area and an additional 188 Magic Damage every 1 second for 8 seconds. While active, an ally can activate the Holy Shards Synergy, restoring 3960 Magicka or Stamina, whichever maximum is higher. They also restore an additional 1980 Magicka or Stamina, whichever maximum is lower. The synergy grants additional resources.
		(Spear Shards Rank IV)	3240 Magicka	Instant (6s)	25m range 8m radius (Ground)
Blazing Spear (Morph) Send your spear into the heavens to bring down a Shower of Divine Wrath, dealing 1104 Magic Damage to enemies in the area and an additional 282 Magic Damage every 1 second for 8 seconds. While active, an ally can activate the Blessed Shards Synergy, restoring 3960 Magicka or Stamina, whichever maximum is higher. Increases the damage over time.
	Active	Aedric Spear Rank 42	4320 Magicka	Instant (6s)	5m radius (Area)
Sun Shield Surround yourself with Solar Rays, granting a Damage Shield equal to 30% of your Maximum Health for 6 seconds. Nearby enemies take 584 Magic Damage when the Shield is activated, and each enemy hit increases the Shield’s strength by 4%.
		(Sun Shield Rank IV)	3980 Magicka	Instant (6s)	5m radius (Area)
Radiant Ward (Morph) Surround yourself with Solar Rays, granting a Damage Shield equal to 30% of your Maximum Health for 6 seconds. Nearby enemies take 605 Magic Damage when the Shield is activated, and each enemy hit increases the Shield’s strength by 6%. Has reduced cost, and the shield is strengthened further for each enemy hit.
		(Sun Shield Rank IV)	4320 Magicka	Instant (6s)	5m radius (Area)
Blazing Shield (Morph) Surround yourself with Solar Rays, granting a Damage Shield equal to 30% of your Maximum Health for 6 seconds. Each nearby enemy increases the Shield’s strength by 4% when the Shield is activated. When the Shield expires it Explodes outward, dealing 42% of the damage absorbed to nearby enemies. No longer deals damage to enemies on activation, instead deals damage when shield expires based on the amount it absorbed.

Passive Abilities
Passive abilities are active all the time.

Name	Line Rank	Skill Rank	Description
Piercing Spear	8	I	Increases your Critical Damage done and your damage against Blocking targets by 5% while you have an Aedric Spear ability slotted.
	18	II	Increases your Critical Damage done and your damage against Blocking targets by 10% while you have an Aedric Spear ability slotted.
Spear Wall	14	I	Increases the amount of damage you can Block from melee attacks by 7% while you have an Aedric Spear ability slotted.
	27	II	Increases the amount of damage you can Block from melee attacks by 15% while you have an Aedric Spear ability slotted.
Burning Light	22	I	When you deal damage with an Aedric Spear ability, you have a 25% chance to deal an additional 518 Physical Damage or 518 Magic Damage, whichever is higher. This effect can occur once every 0.5 seconds.
	36	II	When you deal damage with an Aedric Spear ability, you have a 25% chance to deal an additional 1037 Physical Damage or 1037 Magic Damage, whichever is higher. This effect can occur once every 0.5 seconds.
Balanced Warrior	39	I	Increases your Weapon Damage by 3% and Spell Resistance by 1320.
	50	II	Increases your Weapon Damage by 6% and Spell Resistance by 2640.

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