Stamina Templar 12 Man PvE Build Guide

(Perfected) Slivers of Nul Arca

From the Trial Lucent Citadel, (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca serves as our trial set and therefore our source of Minor Slayer. Its proc condition is extremely simple: whenever we deal Critical Damage three times, the set procs. The proc operates on a very short cooldown, so it's activating often, worth about 10k DPS over the course of an entire fight on our CMX.

Aetheric Lancer

Our second set Aetheric Lancer is a class set from the infinite archive, and both provides strong proc damage and significant buffs to our own damage. Every time Burning Light does 2 ticks of damage, you place a 5 meter AOE in front of you. Dealing Damage with an Aedric Spear ability while standing in the AOE causes a spear to launch at your target, dealing a ton of damage, applying the Sundered status effect, which remember deals damage and increases your Weapon and Spell damage by 100, AND increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 300 for 10 seconds. This set does a TON of damage, a max tick of 85K, worth 14K DPS over the course of an entire fight, MORE DAMAGE than (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca AND it does even more DPS with Sundered AND it gives us a ton of weapon and spell damage. It’s a no brainer.

The huntsman warmask

Huntsman's Warmask is our strongest Mythic for a single-target parse. A Bash or fully charged Heavy Attack marks the dummy for 60 seconds, giving us 15% more damage against it as well as Minor Berserk while active. This does come at a cost though. We deal 50% less damage to every other target without the mark. This makes the mythic optimal for Single Target encounters, and truthfully, most fights in the game these days are best played with single target setups anyway, so we will rarely use any other mythic even in content.

(Perfected) Merciless charge

(Perfected) Merciless Charge is the strongest arena weapon for boss damage in the game. It boosts our direct damage by 12%, and Direct Damage is the most common damage type in this build.

Slimecraw

When running a mythic and an arena weapon, we have room for a one piece monster bonus. Critical Chance is the strongest one piece stat we can get from gear, so we want a monster set whose one piece bonus gives Critical Chance. My preference is Slimecraw because its shoulder is so common thanks to the set’s historical relevance.

How to Choose an Alternate Set

All of the alternate set options that we’ve given here are very strong, but it can be difficult to know exactly which sets to pair together, and more specifically, which set should go on the body and which set should go on your weapons and jewelry when replacing one of our main options. There are a few rules that we need to follow.

Minor Slayer

The first and most important rule is to make sure that we always have a Trial set equipped. The third stat line on every DPS oriented Trial set in the game gives Minor Slayer, a buff that increases our damage done to all PvE enemies by 5%. This is the strongest third piece stat line in the game. If we analyze only the value of a set’s five piece bonus, compare something like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca to Aegis Caller. The damage from the actual five piece procs aren't too far off from one another, but the key factor that makes (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca so much stronger on a one to one basis is that Minor Slayer bonus on the third line.

Medium Armor

Our next consideration is that, regardless of which sets we pair together, we need to run a Medium Armor set on the body. We could take a set like (Perfected) Whorl of the Depths, for example, which is very strong, but if we run it on the body, it’s going to be a significant DPS loss compared to even most dungeon sets, regardless of that third piece stat line. The primary reason for this is that, in the Update 51 meta, we run Medium Armor primarily for Critical Damage and Light Armor primarily for Penetration. There are tons of sources of Penetration in the game, and it’s a lot easier to reach the pen cap than it is to reach the Critical Damage cap. So most of the time, we’ll need to run Medium Armor on the body to make sure that we’re at the Critical Damage cap in 12 man encounters.

Sets that give Stats

Once we have a Trial set equipped and a Medium Armor set on the body, we have to be aware of any sets that gives us a stat bonuses. For example, (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment gives us a 7% damage increase, and if we run this set on our Front Bar Weapons, we would only have this damage bonus active while on the Front Bar. For the Plar, we retain Aetheric Lancer on the body so its five piece bonus stays active through bar swaps. If you're pairing 2 sets that are best run on the body, run the set that is worth the largest DPS gain on the body as a priority.

Proc Sets

Finally, if you are choosing between two proc sets, consider how each one triggers. (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca fires a crystal at three stacks, then has a four second cooldown before it can build stacks again. Its short cooldown makes it easy to keep active on the body if you are replacing Aetheric Lancer. When paired with Aetheric Lancer, though, we'd run Slivers of the Null Arca on weapons and jewelry so Aetheric Lancer continues to proc regardless of the bar we're on, otherwise, we'd nuke the sets DPS.

Alternate Set Info

(Perfected) Arms of Relequen

(Perfected) Arms of Relequen comes from the trial Cloudrest. Every time you Light Attack, you apply a stack of Harmful Winds to the target. This stacks up to 10 times and deals a ton of damage. Historically, Relequen was meta for single target for a very long time, but it received a nerf a few patches ago that gave (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca a slight edge. A lot of people have forgotten about this set since then, but it’s still extremely strong and is only worth a little bit less DPS than what’s considered the strongest single target set in the game.

Run (Perfected) Arms of Relequen on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run (Perfected) Arms of Relequen on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mora Scribe's Thesis

(Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis⁠ is a Light Armor set from the Trial Lucent Citadel. This set increases your Critical Chance for every Major buff active on you and your Critical Damage for every Minor buff active on you. In a 12-man raid scenario, (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis is very competitive with (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca, although it’s slightly worse for the Templar. This set is particularly strong on classes that get random extra sources of Major and Minor buffs that we don’t specifically try to prioritize in a raid comp. The Sorc is a good example because Hurricane gives it Major Resolve and Minor Expedition. Major Resolve contributes to Mora's Critical Chance bonus, while Minor Expedition contributes to its Critical Damage bonus. Mora Scribe’s Thesis is also pretty strong in unoptimized groups, especially groups that might be lacking Critical Damage. So in newer groups or pug scenarios, you might even want to prioritize it over(Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca. Because this is a Light Armor set, we should run (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis on weapons and jewelry and keep the paired medium set on the body.

Aegis Caller

Aegis Caller is a Medium Armor set from the dungeon Unhallowed Grave. It’s one of the strongest proc sets in the game. It deals its damage in a large AoE radius, making it extremely valuable for AoE encounters as well as single target ones. Its raw damage is a little bit lower than a set like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca, but still comparable. This set procs whenever we deal critical damage with a martial melee attack, which means it will proc from our front bar Light Attacks. The proc lasts for 11 seconds with a 12 second cooldown, so we can effectively get near 100% uptime. Because we can proc the set by simply Light Attacking, it’s extremely easy to run on the front bar.

Run Aegis Caller on weapons and jewelry regardless of the set you're replacing, since it's cooldown is very long and easy to proc.

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths is a Light Armor set from the trial Dreadsail Reef. Whenever you deal damage with a Light Attack, you apply a DoT to the target that deals Frost Damage over eight seconds. When that effect ends, a five meter whirlpool is created around the target for six seconds, dealing a ton of AoE damage. Because of that AoE damage, Whorl is a great option for both single target and AoE encounters. The entire effect can occur once every 18 seconds, leaving a pretty short window of downtime between procs. As a Light Armor Trial set, Whorl should only replace Slivers of Null Arca and should stay on weapons and jewelry.

Advancing Yokeda

Berserking Warrior is a Heavy Armor set from the trial Hel Ra Citadel, and it gives us a ton of one of the most important stats in the game: Critical Chance. With five pieces active, AY gives us 986 Critical Chance at base. Whenever you deal Martial melee damage, your Critical Chance increases by another 298 for five seconds, stacking up to five times. To keep those stacks from dropping, make sure that you Light Attack on your front bar at least once every five seconds. Because it’s a Heavy Armor set, run it exclusively on weapons and jewelry, replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment is a Medium Armor set from the trial Sanity’s Edge. At base, it increases your damage done to monsters by 7%. Whenever you interrupt a target while in combat, that bonus increases to 21% for 30 seconds. Because that proc condition is rarely something we can activate in an organized raid, for all intents and purposes we consider (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment primarily for its reliable 7% damage done increase.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set from the trial Cloudrest, and this is another classic. With five pieces active, (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria gives us 200 Weapon and Spell Damage passively. Whenever you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack, you create a ring of fire beneath you for eight seconds. Standing in that ring increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 44 for five seconds, stacking up to ten times. That gives us 440 Weapon and Spell Damage at max stacks, or 640 total when we include the passive portion of the five piece bonus. This set can be a little tricky to maintain though. You need to recreate the ring as often as possible and make sure that you stand inside it at least once every five seconds to refresh your stacks. We can get away with running a set that gives a stat increase on the front bar because that buff comes from a proc. It lasts regardless of which bar we’re on as long as we maintain our stacks. Because (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set, we only want to run it on weapons and jewelry.

Tide Born Windstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is a craftable set found at the Tide Born Foundry in Solstice. It increases your direct damage done to monsters by 15%, which is a huge buff and makes it one of the strongest craftable sets in the game. If you don’t have any of the previous options, Tide Born can perform very close to our meta sets.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

Kvatch Gladiator

An oddly specific Templar exclusive, Kvatch Gladiator gives us a bunch of Crit Chance for its second and third piece, but more importantly, gives nearly 1500 Weapon and Spell Damage against targets below 25% health. Since such a large portion of the Plar's DPS centers around Radiant Oppression, Kvatch becomes a uniquely strong craftable set for the Templar, and one to even consider slotting for certain raid scenarios. For example, when Sanity's Edge first came out, many teams intentionally included Templars with Kvatch Gladiator because the First and Third boss execute phases were incredibly difficult, and began at around 25%. Taking a damage loss in the fist 75% to NUKE the most difficult and most dangerous portion of the fight can be a very worthwhile tradeoff. Because we use this set primarily as a DPS increase for Radiant Oppression, it's one that we should almost always run on the front bar Weapons and Jewelry.

Highland Sentinel

Highland Sentinel is the second strongest craftable set, and its crafting station can be found in West Weald. This set gives us a ton of Critical Chance, which is one of the most valuable stats in the game, but its proc condition is very odd. With five pieces active, the set gives us 986 Critical Chance passively. Then, every second that you stand still in combat gives you a stack of Sentinel’s Eye, adding another 443 Critical Chance per stack, up to three stacks. Every second that you move removes one stack. This condition can be very tricky to maintain, especially for newer players, so I don’t necessarily recommend Highland Sentinel as a go to replacement. But if you’re okay trying to min max with the tools that you have, you can pair Tide-Born Wildstalker with Highland Sentinel and have very good success. Generally, I would use Tide-Born Wildstalker first. Highland Sentinel can only be run on the body.

Order's Wrath

A slightly weaker but much easier option to maintain is Order's Wrath. This set gives us a little bit less Critical Chance than Highland Sentinel, but it also gives us Critical Damage, making it strong and versatile for newer players, unoptimized groups, or even solo and four man groups. You can craft it at Steadfast Hammer and Saw in High Isle and Amenos.

Run Order's Wrath on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run Order's Wrath on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

Mythics and Arena Weapons

(Perfected) Caustic Arrow

(Perfected) Caustic Arrow is a strong playstyle alternative if you want a bow for single target boss fights. Casting Poison Injection gives us 330 Weapon and Spell Damage against enemies affected by it. It isn’t nearly as strong as the Maelstrom Greatsword for this build, so treat it as a playstyle choice rather than a meta substitution.

(Perfected) Spectral Cloak

(Perfected) Spectral Cloak reduces our damage taken and increases our damage done by 6% while Blade Cloak is active. It isn’t stronger than our main setup and is rarely used in a meta Plar build, but it’s a solid alternative if you don’t have the Maelstrom Greatsword or Master's Bow.

The Velothi Ur Mage's Amulet

Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest mythic for AoE damage. Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps us reach the pen cap when AoE targets do not all have debuffs like Crusher for example. Most importantly, it increases our damage done to monsters by 15%, but this comes at the cost of reducing our Light and Heavy Attack damage by 99%.

That penalty matters in single target fights, where Light Attacks make up a meaningful share of our DPS. In AoE situations though, those attacks still hit only one target while our AoE abilities scale with the number of enemies. If Blazing Spear ticks for 10K on one target, that is 10K damage per second. Against two targets, it is 20K, and against three, its 30K, and so on. Since light attacks can only target one enemy at a time, giving them up costs relatively little in an AoE scenario. That makes Velothi’s 15% damage bonus the strongest mythic option for this setup.

Important: Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet does not mean we stop light attack weaving. Light attacks still proc enchants, status effects, and help maintain Ultimate generation. Keep weaving even though the attacks themselves barely deal damage.

(Perfected) Slivers of Nul Arca

From the Trial Lucent Citadel, (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca serves as our trial set and therefore our source of Minor Slayer. Its proc condition is extremely simple: whenever we deal Critical Damage three times, the set procs. The proc operates on a very short cooldown, so it's activating often, worth about 10k DPS over the course of an entire fight on our CMX.

Aetheric Lancer

Our second set Aetheric Lancer is a class set from the infinite archive, and both provides strong proc damage and significant buffs to our own damage. Every time Burning Light does 2 ticks of damage, you place a 5 meter AOE in front of you. Dealing Damage with an Aedric Spear ability while standing in the AOE causes a spear to launch at your target, dealing a ton of damage, applying the Sundered status effect, which remember deals damage and increases your Weapon and Spell damage by 100, AND increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 300 for 10 seconds. This set does a TON of damage, a max tick of 85K, worth 14K DPS over the course of an entire fight, MORE DAMAGE than (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca AND it does even more DPS with Sundered AND it gives us a ton of weapon and spell damage. It’s a no brainer.

The huntsman warmask

Huntsman's Warmask is our strongest Mythic for a single-target parse. A Bash or fully charged Heavy Attack marks the dummy for 60 seconds, giving us 15% more damage against it as well as Minor Berserk while active. This does come at a cost though. We deal 50% less damage to every other target without the mark. This makes the mythic optimal for Single Target encounters, and truthfully, most fights in the game these days are best played with single target setups anyway, so we will rarely use any other mythic even in content.

(Perfected) Merciless charge

(Perfected) Merciless Charge is the strongest arena weapon for boss damage in the game. It boosts our direct damage by 12%, and Direct Damage is the most common damage type in this build.

Slimecraw

When running a mythic and an arena weapon, we have room for a one piece monster bonus. Critical Chance is the strongest one piece stat we can get from gear, so we want a monster set whose one piece bonus gives Critical Chance. My preference is Slimecraw because its shoulder is so common thanks to the set’s historical relevance.

How to Choose an Alternate Set

All of the alternate set options that we’ve given here are very strong, but it can be difficult to know exactly which sets to pair together, and more specifically, which set should go on the body and which set should go on your weapons and jewelry when replacing one of our main options. There are a few rules that we need to follow.

Minor Slayer

The first and most important rule is to make sure that we always have a Trial set equipped. The third stat line on every DPS oriented Trial set in the game gives Minor Slayer, a buff that increases our damage done to all PvE enemies by 5%. This is the strongest third piece stat line in the game. If we analyze only the value of a set’s five piece bonus, compare something like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca to Aegis Caller. The damage from the actual five piece procs aren't too far off from one another, but the key factor that makes (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca so much stronger on a one to one basis is that Minor Slayer bonus on the third line.

Medium Armor

Our next consideration is that, regardless of which sets we pair together, we need to run a Medium Armor set on the body. We could take a set like (Perfected) Whorl of the Depths, for example, which is very strong, but if we run it on the body, it’s going to be a significant DPS loss compared to even most dungeon sets, regardless of that third piece stat line. The primary reason for this is that, in the Update 51 meta, we run Medium Armor primarily for Critical Damage and Light Armor primarily for Penetration. There are tons of sources of Penetration in the game, and it’s a lot easier to reach the pen cap than it is to reach the Critical Damage cap. So most of the time, we’ll need to run Medium Armor on the body to make sure that we’re at the Critical Damage cap in 12 man encounters.

Sets that give Stats

Once we have a Trial set equipped and a Medium Armor set on the body, we have to be aware of any sets that gives us a stat bonuses. For example, (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment gives us a 7% damage increase, and if we run this set on our Front Bar Weapons, we would only have this damage bonus active while on the Front Bar. For the Plar, we retain Aetheric Lancer on the body so its five piece bonus stays active through bar swaps. If you're pairing 2 sets that are best run on the body, run the set that is worth the largest DPS gain on the body as a priority.

Proc Sets

Finally, if you are choosing between two proc sets, consider how each one triggers. (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca fires a crystal at three stacks, then has a four second cooldown before it can build stacks again. Its short cooldown makes it easy to keep active on the body if you are replacing Aetheric Lancer. When paired with Aetheric Lancer, though, we'd run Slivers of the Null Arca on weapons and jewelry so Aetheric Lancer continues to proc regardless of the bar we're on, otherwise, we'd nuke the sets DPS.

Alternate Set Info

(Perfected) Arms of Relequen

(Perfected) Arms of Relequen comes from the trial Cloudrest. Every time you Light Attack, you apply a stack of Harmful Winds to the target. This stacks up to 10 times and deals a ton of damage. Historically, Relequen was meta for single target for a very long time, but it received a nerf a few patches ago that gave (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca a slight edge. A lot of people have forgotten about this set since then, but it’s still extremely strong and is only worth a little bit less DPS than what’s considered the strongest single target set in the game.

Run (Perfected) Arms of Relequen on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run (Perfected) Arms of Relequen on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mora Scribe's Thesis

(Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis⁠ is a Light Armor set from the Trial Lucent Citadel. This set increases your Critical Chance for every Major buff active on you and your Critical Damage for every Minor buff active on you. In a 12 man raid scenario, (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis is very competitive with (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca, although it’s slightly worse for the Templar. This set is particularly strong on classes that get random extra sources of Major and Minor buffs that we don’t specifically try to prioritize in a raid comp. The Sorc is a good example because Hurricane gives it Major Resolve and Minor Expedition. Major Resolve contributes to Mora's Critical Chance bonus, while Minor Expedition contributes to its Critical Damage bonus. Mora Scribe’s Thesis is also pretty strong in unoptimized groups, especially groups that might be lacking Critical Damage. So in newer groups or pug scenarios, you might even want to prioritize it over(Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca. Because this is a Light Armor set, we should run (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis on weapons and jewelry and keep the paired medium set on the body.

Aegis Caller

Aegis Caller is a Medium Armor set from the dungeon Unhallowed Grave. It’s one of the strongest proc sets in the game. It deals its damage in a large AoE radius, making it extremely valuable for AoE encounters as well as single target ones. Its raw damage is a little bit lower than a set like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca, but still comparable. This set procs whenever we deal critical damage with a martial melee attack, which means it will proc from our front bar Light Attacks. The proc lasts for 11 seconds with a 12 second cooldown, so we can effectively get near 100% uptime. Because we can proc the set by simply Light Attacking, it’s extremely easy to run on the front bar.

Run Aegis Caller on weapons and jewelry regardless of the set you're replacing, since it's cooldown is very long and easy to proc.

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths is a Light Armor set from the trial Dreadsail Reef. Whenever you deal damage with a Light Attack, you apply a DoT to the target that deals Frost Damage over eight seconds. When that effect ends, a five meter whirlpool is created around the target for six seconds, dealing a ton of AoE damage. Because of that AoE damage, Whorl is a great option for both single target and AoE encounters. The entire effect can occur once every 18 seconds, leaving a pretty short window of downtime between procs. As a Light Armor Trial set, Whorl should only replace Slivers of Null Arca and should stay on weapons and jewelry.

Advancing Yokeda

Berserking Warrior is a Heavy Armor set from the trial Hel Ra Citadel, and it gives us a ton of one of the most important stats in the game: Critical Chance. With five pieces active, AY gives us 986 Critical Chance at base. Whenever you deal Martial melee damage, your Critical Chance increases by another 298 for five seconds, stacking up to five times. To keep those stacks from dropping, make sure that you Light Attack on your front bar at least once every five seconds. Because it’s a Heavy Armor set, run it exclusively on weapons and jewelry, replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment is a Medium Armor set from the trial Sanity’s Edge. At base, it increases your damage done to monsters by 7%. Whenever you interrupt a target while in combat, that bonus increases to 21% for 30 seconds. Because that proc condition is rarely something we can activate in an organized raid, for all intents and purposes we consider (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment primarily for its reliable 7% damage done increase.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set from the trial Cloudrest, and this is another classic. With five pieces active, (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria gives us 200 Weapon and Spell Damage passively. Whenever you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack, you create a ring of fire beneath you for eight seconds. Standing in that ring increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 44 for five seconds, stacking up to ten times. That gives us 440 Weapon and Spell Damage at max stacks, or 640 total when we include the passive portion of the five piece bonus. This set can be a little tricky to maintain though. You need to recreate the ring as often as possible and make sure that you stand inside it at least once every five seconds to refresh your stacks. We can get away with running a set that gives a stat increase on the front bar because that buff comes from a proc. It lasts regardless of which bar we’re on as long as we maintain our stacks. Because (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set, we only want to run it on weapons and jewelry.

Tide Born Windstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is a craftable set found at the Tide Born Foundry in Solstice. It increases your direct damage done to monsters by 15%, which is a huge buff and makes it one of the strongest craftable sets in the game. If you don’t have any of the previous options, Tide Born can perform very close to our meta sets.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

Kvatch Gladiator

An oddly specific Templar exclusive, Kvatch Gladiator gives us a bunch of Crit Chance for its second and third piece, but more importantly, gives nearly 1500 Weapon and Spell Damage against targets below 25% health. Since such a large portion of the Plar's DPS centers around Radiant Oppression, Kvatch becomes a uniquely strong craftable set for the Templar, and one to even consider slotting for certain raid scenarios. For example, when Sanity's Edge first came out, many teams intentionally included Templars with Kvatch Gladiator because the First and Third boss execute phases were incredibly difficult, and began at around 25%. Taking a damage loss in the fist 75% to NUKE the most difficult and most dangerous portion of the fight can be a very worthwhile tradeoff. Because we use this set primarily as a DPS increase for Radiant Oppression, it's one that we should almost always run on the front bar Weapons and Jewelry.

Highland Sentinel

Highland Sentinel is the second strongest craftable set, and its crafting station can be found in West Weald. This set gives us a ton of Critical Chance, which is one of the most valuable stats in the game, but its proc condition is very odd. With five pieces active, the set gives us 986 Critical Chance passively. Then, every second that you stand still in combat gives you a stack of Sentinel’s Eye, adding another 443 Critical Chance per stack, up to three stacks. Every second that you move removes one stack. This condition can be very tricky to maintain, especially for newer players, so I don’t necessarily recommend Highland Sentinel as a go to replacement. But if you’re okay trying to min max with the tools that you have, you can pair Tide-Born Wildstalker with Highland Sentinel and have very good success. Generally, I would use Tide-Born Wildstalker first. Highland Sentinel can only be run on the body.

Order's Wrath

A slightly weaker but much easier option to maintain is Order's Wrath. This set gives us a little bit less Critical Chance than Highland Sentinel, but it also gives us Critical Damage, making it strong and versatile for newer players, unoptimized groups, or even solo and four man groups. You can craft it at Steadfast Hammer and Saw in High Isle and Amenos.

Run Order's Wrath on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run Order's Wrath on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

Mythics and Arena Weapons

(Perfected) Caustic Arrow

(Perfected) Caustic Arrow is a strong playstyle alternative if you want a bow for single target boss fights. Casting Poison Injection gives us 330 Weapon and Spell Damage against enemies affected by it. It isn’t nearly as strong as the Maelstrom Greatsword for this build, so treat it as a playstyle choice rather than a meta substitution.

(Perfected) Spectral Cloak

(Perfected) Spectral Cloak reduces our damage taken and increases our damage done by 6% while Blade Cloak is active. It isn’t stronger than our main setup and is rarely used in a meta Plar build, but it’s a solid alternative if you don’t have the Maelstrom Greatsword or Master's Bow.

The Velothi Ur Mage's Amulet

Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest mythic for AoE damage. Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps us reach the pen cap when AoE targets do not all have debuffs like Crusher for example. Most importantly, it increases our damage done to monsters by 15%, but this comes at the cost of reducing our Light and Heavy Attack damage by 99%.

That penalty matters in single target fights, where Light Attacks make up a meaningful share of our DPS. In AoE situations though, those attacks still hit only one target while our AoE abilities scale with the number of enemies. If Blazing Spear ticks for 10K on one target, that is 10K damage per second. Against two targets, it is 20K, and against three, its 30K, and so on. Since light attacks can only target one enemy at a time, giving them up costs relatively little in an AoE scenario. That makes Velothi’s 15% damage bonus the strongest mythic option for this setup.

Important: Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet does not mean we stop light attack weaving. Light attacks still proc enchants, status effects, and help maintain Ultimate generation. Keep weaving even though the attacks themselves barely deal damage.

Radiant Glory

In content, Radiant Glory is the morph that I would suggest. This morph doesn't start its damage scaling until 33%, as opposed to Radiant Oppression's 40%. This means that we start casting it a bit later, roughly between 20-25%, which makes it a bit weaker. However, it also makes sustain a bit easier on the Stam Spec of the Templar, and far more importantly, we trade this damage for a MASSIVE amount of healing. Radiant Glory heals you for 15% of the damage inflicted which basically makes you unkillable below 20%.

(Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet

(Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet is a medium armor set from the trial Ossein Cage, and is *arguably the strongest AOE proc set in the game. On dealing direct AOE damage, which we will be dong very often between Biting Jabs and Blazing Spear, you place a sword above an enemy, spawning once per second, and one per enemy. After 6 seconds, the sword falls, dealing a decent tick of damage. Most importantly, applying a sword increases your damage done by 2% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. In most AOE situations this patch, increasing our damage done is almost always more preferable than proc sets: buffing strong abilities like Biting Jabs, Blazing Spear, Ritual of Retribution, and more tends to be the better play. When you can maintain at least 3 swords on average, the proc + damage done increase makes Kazpian the best option for longer AOE encounters.

Aetheric Lancer

Our second set Aetheric Lancer is a class set from the infinite archive, and both provides strong proc damage and significant buffs to our own damage. Every time Burning Light does 2 ticks of damage, you place a 5 meter AOE in front of you. Dealing Damage with an Aedric Spear ability while standing in the AOE causes a spear to launch at your target, dealing a ton of damage, applying the sundered status effect, which remember deals damage and increases your Weapon and Spell damage by 100, AND increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 300 for 10 seconds. This set does a TON of damage, a max tick of 85K, worth 14K DPS over the course of an entire fight, MORE DAMAGE than Null Arca AND it does even more DPS with sundered AND it gives us a ton of weapon and spell damage. It’s a no brainer.

The Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet

Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest mythic for AoE damage. Shattered Paths Signet is still strong, but status effects are most effective against a single target. Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps us reach the pen cap when AoE targets do not all have debuffs like Crusher for example. Most importantly, it increases our damage done to monsters by 15%, but this comes at the cost of reducing our Light and Heavy Attack damage by 99%.

That penalty matters in single target fights, where Light Attacks make up a meaningful share of our DPS. In AoE situations though, those attacks still hit only one target while our AoE abilities scale with the number of enemies. If Blazing Spear ticks for 10K on one target, that is 10K damage per second. Against two targets, it is 20K, and against three, its 30K, and so on. Since light attacks can only target one enemy at a time, giving them up costs relatively little in an AoE scenario. That makes Velothi’s 15% damage bonus the strongest mythic option for this setup.

Important: Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet does not mean we stop light attack weaving. Light attacks still proc enchants, status effects, and help maintain Ultimate generation. Keep weaving even though the attacks themselves barely deal damage.

(Perfected) Merciless Charge

(Perfected) Merciless Charge is still the strongest arena weapon even for AoE boss damage on the Plar. Most of our toolkit deals Direct Damage, so improving that damage across the full fight is worth a little more than the damage from (Perfected) Crushing Wall or (Perfected) Thunderous Volley in most situations. Those weapons can make more sense in short, bursty trash pulls, where one cast hits a larger pack. AoE boss fights usually have fewer targets and a longer damage window, which makes (Perfected) Merciless Charge a tad more valuable for a class as direct damage heavy as the Plar is.

Slimecraw

When running a mythic and an arena weapon, we have room for a one piece monster bonus. Critical Chance is the strongest one piece stat we can get from gear, so we want a monster set whose one piece bonus gives Critical Chance. My preference is Slimecraw because its shoulder is so common thanks to the set’s historical relevance.

How to Choose an Alternate Set

All of the alternate set options that we’ve given here are very strong, but it can be difficult to know exactly which sets to pair together, and more specifically, which set should go on the body and which set should go on your weapons and jewelry when replacing one of our main options. There are a few rules that we need to follow.

Minor Slayer

The first and most important rule is to make sure that we always have a Trial set equipped. The third stat line on every DPS oriented Trial set in the game gives Minor Slayer, a buff that increases our damage done to all PvE enemies by 5%. This is the strongest third piece stat line in the game. If we analyze only the value of a set’s five piece bonus, compare something like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca to Aegis Caller. The damage from the actual five piece procs aren't too far off from one another, but the key factor that makes (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca so much stronger on a one to one basis is that Minor Slayer bonus on the third line.

Medium Armor

Our next consideration is that, regardless of which sets we pair together, we need to run a Medium Armor set on the body. We could take a set like (Perfected) Whorl of the Depths, for example, which is very strong, but if we run it on the body, it’s going to be a significant DPS loss compared to even most dungeon sets, regardless of that third piece stat line. The primary reason for this is that, in the Update 51 meta, we run Medium Armor primarily for Critical Damage and Light Armor primarily for Penetration. There are tons of sources of Penetration in the game, and it’s a lot easier to reach the pen cap than it is to reach the Critical Damage cap. So most of the time, we’ll need to run Medium Armor on the body to make sure that we’re at the Critical Damage cap in 12 man encounters.

Sets that give Stats

Once we have a Trial set equipped and a Medium Armor set on the body, we have to be aware of any sets that gives us a stat bonuses. For example, (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment gives us a 7% damage increase, and if we run this set on our Front Bar Weapons, we would only have this damage bonus active while on the Front Bar. For the Plar, we retain Aetheric Lancer on the body so its five piece bonus stays active through bar swaps. If you're pairing 2 sets that are best run on the body, run the set that is worth the largest DPS gain on the body as a priority.

Proc Sets

Finally, if you are choosing between two proc sets, consider how each one triggers. (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca fires a crystal at three stacks, then has a four second cooldown before it can build stacks again. Its short cooldown makes it easy to keep active on the body if you are replacing Aetheric Lancer. When paired with Aetheric Lancer, though, we'd run Slivers of the Null Arca on weapons and jewelry so Aetheric Lancer continues to proc, otherwise, we'd nuke the sets DPS.

Alternate Set Info

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths is a Light Armor set from the trial Dreadsail Reef. Whenever you deal damage with a Light Attack, you apply a DoT to the target that deals Frost Damage over eight seconds. When that effect ends, a five meter whirlpool is created around the target for six seconds, dealing a ton of AoE damage. Because of that AoE damage, Whorl is a great option for both single target and AoE encounters. The entire effect can occur once every 18 seconds, leaving a pretty short window of downtime between procs.

When replacing (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet, Depths is the next strongest source for the Templar, mainly because all of our other Trial set alternatives buff our damage done in some way. We have to keep Aetheric Lancer on the body, so we get more damage by front baring a generically weaker proc set than from a set that buffs our damage done but only on our front bar: granted, our front bar is where the majority of our DPS comes from on this class, so that optimization is very minor.

If you have to replace Aetheric Lancer, Depths becomes a much less preferable alternative, since that means we would be running 2 sets with Minor Slayer. In this case, strong alternatives that don't double up on this buff will be more preferable. In any case, if you do have to run (Perfected) Whorl of the Depths in place of Aetheric Lancer, run it on the Weapons and Jewelry and move (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet to the Body.

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment is a Medium Armor set from the trial Sanity’s Edge. At base, it increases your damage done to monsters by 7%. Whenever you interrupt a target while in combat, that bonus increases to 21% for 30 seconds. Because that proc condition is rarely something we can activate in an organized raid, for all intents and purposes we consider (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment primarily for its reliable 7% damage done increase. The Templar has incredibly AOE oriented toolkit, so running sets that buff the damage of that toolkit is the simplest way to increase our AOE damage.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on weapons and jewelry when replacing (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mora Scribe's Thesis

(Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis⁠ is a Light Armor set from the Trial Lucent Citadel. This set increases your Critical Chance for every Major buff active on you and your Critical Damage for every Minor buff active on you. In a 12 man raid scenario, (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis is very competitive with (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment, although it’s slightly worse for the Templar. This set is particularly strong on classes that get random extra sources of Major and Minor buffs that we don’t specifically try to prioritize in a raid comp. The Sorc is a good example because Hurricane gives it Major Resolve and Minor Expedition. Major Resolve contributes to Mora's Critical Chance bonus, while Minor Expedition contributes to its Critical Damage bonus. Mora Scribe’s Thesis is also pretty strong in unoptimized groups, especially groups that might be lacking Critical Damage. Because this is a Light Armor set, we should run (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis on weapons and jewelry and keep the paired medium set on the body.

Aegis Caller

Aegis Caller is a Medium Armor set from the dungeon Unhallowed Grave. It’s one of the strongest proc sets in the game. It deals its damage in a large AoE radius, making it extremely valuable for AoE encounters as well as single target ones. Its raw damage is a little bit lower than a set like (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet, but still comparable. This set procs whenever we deal critical damage with a martial melee attack, which means it will proc from our front bar Light Attacks. The proc lasts for 11 seconds with a 12 second cooldown, so we can effectively get near 100% uptime. Because we can proc the set by simply Light Attacking, it’s extremely easy to run on the front bar. Run Aegis Caller on weapons and jewelry regardless of if you're replacing (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet or Aetheric Lancer, since you want Lancer active on the body in general, and Aegis Caller's proc condition is easier to maintain than Kazpian.

Advancing Yokeda

Berserking Warrior is a Heavy Armor set from the trial Hel Ra Citadel, and it gives us a ton of one of the most important stats in the game: Critical Chance. With five pieces active, AY gives us 986 Critical Chance at base. Whenever you deal Martial melee damage, your Critical Chance increases by another 298 for five seconds, stacking up to five times. To keep those stacks from dropping, make sure that you Light Attack on your front bar at least once every five seconds. Much like Ansuul, because the Plar has such a naturally strong AOE Damage Profile, the generic increase in crit damage makes AY an incredibly strong set for AOE. Because it’s a Heavy Armor set, run it exclusively on weapons and jewelry, regardless of whether we replace (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet or Aetheric Lancer.

Tide Born Windstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is a craftable set found at the Tide Born Foundry in Solstice. It increases your direct damage done to monsters by 15%, which is a huge buff and makes it one of the strongest craftable sets in the game. If you don’t have any of the previous options, Tide Born can perform very close to our meta sets.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on weapons and jewelry when replacing (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set from the trial Cloudrest, and this is another classic. With five pieces active, (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria gives us 200 Weapon and Spell Damage passively. Whenever you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack, you create a ring of fire beneath you for eight seconds. Standing in that ring increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 44 for five seconds, stacking up to ten times. That gives us 440 Weapon and Spell Damage at max stacks, or 640 total when we include the passive portion of the five piece bonus. Much like Ansuul, because the Plar has such a naturally strong AOE Damage Profile, the generic increase in weapon and spell damage makes (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria an incredibly strong set for AOE. This set can be a little tricky to maintain though. You need to recreate the ring as often as possible and make sure that you stand inside it at least once every five seconds to refresh your stacks. We can get away with running a set that gives a stat increase on the front bar because that buff comes from a proc. It lasts regardless of which bar we’re on as long as we maintain our stacks. Because (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set, we only want to run it on weapons and jewelry, regardless of whether we are replacing (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet or Aetheric Lancer.

Order's Wrath

As a last resort, if you can't get any of the previously mentioned options, you can at least craft Tide-Born Wildstalker with Order's Wrath. This set gives us a decent amount of Crit Chance, and also gives us 8% Critical Damage, making it strong and versatile for newer players, unoptimized groups, or even solo and four man groups. You can craft it at Steadfast Hammer and Saw in High Isle and Amenos.

Run Order's Wrath on weapons and jewelry when replacing (Perfected) Kazpian's Cruel Signet .

Run Order's Wrath on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

Mythics and Arena Weapons

(Perfected) Crushing Wall is one of the strongest AoE arena weapons in the game. It dramatically increases the damage of the already powerful Wall of Elements giving that one ability more damage than a full proc set like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca. On the Stam Plar, Wall can be tricky to sustain because it is so expensive. If damage to a second boss or the smaller adds in a boss might matter more, this is our strongest alternative arena weapon for AoE boss fights when we can sustain it.

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley is also one of our strongest AoE arena weapon options. It increases the damage of Endless Hail to a level comparable to a full proc set like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca, though it is slightly weaker. We mainly use this weapon in trash with Arrow Barrage , a shorter 10 second DoT that we can cast before the pull and that lines up better with burst damage. For AoE boss fights, run Endless Hail when adds or another boss need more damage and Wall of Elements is too expensive to sustain.

Radiant Glory

In content, Radiant Glory is the morph that I would suggest. This morph doesn't start its damage scaling until 33%, as opposed to Radiant Oppression's 40%. This means that we start casting it a bit later, roughly between 20-25%, which makes it a bit weaker. However, it also makes sustain a bit easier on the Stam Spec of the Templar, and far more importantly, we trade this damage for a MASSIVE amount of healing. Radiant Glory heals you for 15% of the damage inflicted which basically makes you unkillable below 20%.

Camouflaged Hunter

Camouflaged Hunter is a buff skill. It provides Major Savagery, our Major Critical Chance buff, and Minor Berserk after dealing critical damage from an enemy’s flank. Spear Wall and our healer’s Combat Prayer already provide Minor Berserk in this setup, so that part is less relevant.

Most importantly, Camouflaged Hunter gives us 3% extra Weapon and Spell Damage through Slayer. With our class passives pushing our base Weapon and Spell Damage so high, percentage increases become massive on the Plar.

Anti-Cavalry Caltrops

Anti-Cavalry Caltrops is the one of the strongest AOE abilities that we have access to on the Templar, especially when keeping the Maelstrom Greatsword on the backbar. In AOE situations, Carve is not really maintainable on multiple priority targets, especially if the fight involves lower health adds, so adding a generically strong AOE becomes an optimal choice.

Shooting star

When running a Greatsword, Shooting Star is the strongest AOE ultiamte the Templar has access to. When cast, a Meteor slams into your target dealing a massive burst of damage on impact. The initial tick restores 10 ultimate per target hit, then leaves behind a very strong, but pretty small AOE for 10 seconds. Simply put, when running a bow, Shooting Star is our strongest ultimate option on the Stamplar.

Tide born Windstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is a craftable set found at the Tide Born Foundry in Solstice. It increases your direct damage done to monsters by 15%, which is a huge buff and makes Tide Born one of the strongest craftable sets in the entire game. If you don’t have any of the previously mentioned options, you can run Tide-Born Wildstalker with very similar success to our meta options.

Aetheric Lancer

Our second set Aetheric Lancer is a class set from the infinite archive, and both provides strong proc damage and significant buffs to our own damage. Every time Burning Light does 2 ticks of damage, you place a 5 meter AOE in front of you. Dealing Damage with an Aedric Spear ability while standing in the AOE causes a spear to launch at your target, dealing a ton of damage, applying the sundered status effect, which remember deals damage and increases your Weapon and Spell damage by 100, AND increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 300 for 10 seconds. This set does a TON of damage, a max tick of 85K, worth 14K DPS over the course of an entire fight, MORE DAMAGE than Null Arca AND it does even more DPS with sundered AND it gives us a ton of weapon and spell damage. It’s a no brainer.

The huntsman warmask

Huntsman's Warmask is our strongest Mythic for a single-target parse. A Bash or fully charged Heavy Attack marks the dummy for 60 seconds, giving us 15% more damage against it as well as Minor Berserk while active. This does come at a cost though. We deal 50% less damage to every other target without the mark. This makes the mythic optimal for Single Target encounters, and truthfully, most fights in the game these days are best played with single target setups anyway, so we will rarely use any other mythic even in content.

(Perfected) Merciless charge

(Perfected) Merciless Charge is the strongest arena weapon for boss damage in the game. It boosts our direct damage by 12%, and Direct Damage is the most common damage type in this build.

Slimecraw

When running a mythic and an arena weapon, we have room for a one piece monster bonus. Critical Chance is the strongest one piece stat we can get from gear, so we want a monster set whose one piece bonus gives Critical Chance. My preference is Slimecraw because its shoulder is so common thanks to the set’s historical relevance.

Tide born Windstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is a craftable set found at the Tide Born Foundry in Solstice. It increases your direct damage done to monsters by 15%, which is a huge buff and makes Tide-Born Wildstalker one of the strongest craftable sets in the entire game. If you don’t have any of the previously mentioned options, you can run Tide-Born Wildstalker with very similar success to our meta options.

Order's Wrath

Technically, Highland Sentinel is the next best craftable. Howver, a slightly weaker but much easier option to maintain that I'm going to recommend is Order's Wrath. This set gives us a bit less Critical Chance than Highland Sentinel, but it also gives us Critical Damage, making the set very strong and versatile for newer players, unoptimized groups, or even solo and four man situations. This set can be crafted at Steadfast Hammer and Saw in the High Isle and Amenos region. Keep Order's Wrath on the body so its stats remain active on both bars.

The huntsman warmask

Huntsman's Warmask is our strongest Mythic for a single-target parse. A Bash or fully charged Heavy Attack marks the dummy for 60 seconds, giving us 15% more damage against it as well as Minor Berserk while active. This does come at a cost though. We deal 50% less damage to every other target without the mark. This makes the mythic optimal for Single Target encounters, and truthfully, most fights in the game these days are best played with single target setups anyway, so we will rarely use any other mythic even in content.

(Perfected) Merciless charge

(Perfected) Merciless Charge is the strongest arena weapon for boss damage in the game. It boosts our direct damage by 12%, and Direct Damage is the most common damage type in this build.

Slimecraw

When running a mythic and an arena weapon, we have room for a one piece monster bonus. Critical Chance is the strongest one piece stat we can get from gear, so we want a monster set whose one piece bonus gives Critical Chance. My preference is Slimecraw because its shoulder is so common thanks to the set’s historical relevance.

(Perfected) Slivers of Nul Arca

From the Trial Lucent Citadel, (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca serves as our trial set and therefore our source of Minor Slayer. Its proc condition is extremely simple: whenever we deal Critical Damage three times, the set procs. The proc operates on a very short cooldown, so it's activating often, worth about 10k DPS over the course of an entire fight on our CMX.

Aetheric Lancer

Our second set Aetheric Lancer is a class set from the infinite archive, and both provides strong proc damage and significant buffs to our own damage. Every time Burning Light does 2 ticks of damage, you place a 5 meter AOE in front of you. Dealing Damage with an Aedric Spear ability while standing in the AOE causes a spear to launch at your target, dealing a ton of damage, applying the Sundered status effect, which remember deals damage and increases your Weapon and Spell damage by 100, AND increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 300 for 10 seconds. This set does a TON of damage, a max tick of 85K, worth 14K DPS over the course of an entire fight, MORE DAMAGE than (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca AND it does even more DPS with Sundered AND it gives us a ton of weapon and spell damage. It’s a no brainer.

The huntsman warmask

Huntsman's Warmask is our strongest Mythic for a single-target parse. A Bash or fully charged Heavy Attack marks the dummy for 60 seconds, giving us 15% more damage against it as well as Minor Berserk while active. This does come at a cost though. We deal 50% less damage to every other target without the mark. This makes the mythic optimal for Single Target encounters, and truthfully, most fights in the game these days are best played with single target setups anyway, so we will rarely use any other mythic even in content.

(Perfected) Merciless charge

(Perfected) Merciless Charge is the strongest arena weapon for boss damage in the game. It boosts our direct damage by 12%, and Direct Damage is the most common damage type in this build.

Slimecraw

When running a mythic and an arena weapon, we have room for a one piece monster bonus. Critical Chance is the strongest one piece stat we can get from gear, so we want a monster set whose one piece bonus gives Critical Chance. My preference is Slimecraw because its shoulder is so common thanks to the set’s historical relevance.

How to Choose an Alternate Set

All of the alternate set options that we’ve given here are very strong, but it can be difficult to know exactly which sets to pair together, and more specifically, which set should go on the body and which set should go on your weapons and jewelry when replacing one of our main options. There are a few rules that we need to follow.

Minor Slayer

The first and most important rule is to make sure that we always have a Trial set equipped. The third stat line on every DPS oriented Trial set in the game gives Minor Slayer, a buff that increases our damage done to all PvE enemies by 5%. This is the strongest third piece stat line in the game. If we analyze only the value of a set’s five piece bonus, compare something like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca to Aegis Caller. The damage from the actual five piece procs aren't too far off from one another, but the key factor that makes (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca so much stronger on a one to one basis is that Minor Slayer bonus on the third line.

Medium Armor

Our next consideration is that, regardless of which sets we pair together, we need to run a Medium Armor set on the body. We could take a set like (Perfected) Whorl of the Depths, for example, which is very strong, but if we run it on the body, it’s going to be a significant DPS loss compared to even most dungeon sets, regardless of that third piece stat line. The primary reason for this is that, in the Update 51 meta, we run Medium Armor primarily for Critical Damage and Light Armor primarily for Penetration. There are tons of sources of Penetration in the game, and it’s a lot easier to reach the pen cap than it is to reach the Critical Damage cap. So most of the time, we’ll need to run Medium Armor on the body to make sure that we’re at the Critical Damage cap in 12 man encounters.

Sets that give Stats

Once we have a Trial set equipped and a Medium Armor set on the body, we have to be aware of any sets that gives us a stat bonuses. For example, (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment gives us a 7% damage increase, and if we run this set on our Front Bar Weapons, we would only have this damage bonus active while on the Front Bar. For the Plar, we retain Aetheric Lancer on the body so its five piece bonus stays active through bar swaps. If you're pairing 2 sets that are best run on the body, run the set that is worth the largest DPS gain on the body as a priority.

Proc Sets

Finally, if you are choosing between two proc sets, consider how each one triggers. (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca fires a crystal at three stacks, then has a four second cooldown before it can build stacks again. Its short cooldown makes it easy to keep active on the body if you are replacing Aetheric Lancer. When paired with Aetheric Lancer, though, we'd run Slivers of the Null Arca on weapons and jewelry so Aetheric Lancer continues to proc regardless of the bar we're on, otherwise, we'd nuke the sets DPS.

Alternate Set Info

(Perfected) Arms of Relequen

(Perfected) Arms of Relequen comes from the trial Cloudrest. Every time you Light Attack, you apply a stack of Harmful Winds to the target. This stacks up to 10 times and deals a ton of damage. Historically, Relequen was meta for single target for a very long time, but it received a nerf a few patches ago that gave (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca a slight edge. A lot of people have forgotten about this set since then, but it’s still extremely strong and is only worth a little bit less DPS than what’s considered the strongest single target set in the game.

Run (Perfected) Arms of Relequen on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run (Perfected) Arms of Relequen on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mora Scribe's Thesis

(Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis⁠ is a Light Armor set from the Trial Lucent Citadel. This set increases your Critical Chance for every Major buff active on you and your Critical Damage for every Minor buff active on you. In a 12 man raid scenario, (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis is very competitive with (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca, although it’s slightly worse for the Templar. This set is particularly strong on classes that get random extra sources of Major and Minor buffs that we don’t specifically try to prioritize in a raid comp. The Sorc is a good example because Hurricane gives it Major Resolve and Minor Expedition. Major Resolve contributes to Mora's Critical Chance bonus, while Minor Expedition contributes to its Critical Damage bonus. Mora Scribe’s Thesis is also pretty strong in unoptimized groups, especially groups that might be lacking Critical Damage. So in newer groups or pug scenarios, you might even want to prioritize it over(Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca. Because this is a Light Armor set, we should run (Perfected) Mora Scribe’s Thesis on weapons and jewelry and keep the paired medium set on the body.

Aegis Caller

Aegis Caller is a Medium Armor set from the dungeon Unhallowed Grave. It’s one of the strongest proc sets in the game. It deals its damage in a large AoE radius, making it extremely valuable for AoE encounters as well as single target ones. Its raw damage is a little bit lower than a set like (Perfected) Slivers of Null Arca, but still comparable. This set procs whenever we deal critical damage with a martial melee attack, which means it will proc from our front bar Light Attacks. The proc lasts for 11 seconds with a 12 second cooldown, so we can effectively get near 100% uptime. Because we can proc the set by simply Light Attacking, it’s extremely easy to run on the front bar.

Run Aegis Caller on weapons and jewelry regardless of the set you're replacing, since it's cooldown is very long and easy to proc.

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths

(Perfected) Whorl of the Depths is a Light Armor set from the trial Dreadsail Reef. Whenever you deal damage with a Light Attack, you apply a DoT to the target that deals Frost Damage over eight seconds. When that effect ends, a five meter whirlpool is created around the target for six seconds, dealing a ton of AoE damage. Because of that AoE damage, Whorl is a great option for both single target and AoE encounters. The entire effect can occur once every 18 seconds, leaving a pretty short window of downtime between procs. As a Light Armor Trial set, Whorl should only replace Slivers of Null Arca and should stay on weapons and jewelry.

Advancing Yokeda

Berserking Warrior is a Heavy Armor set from the trial Hel Ra Citadel, and it gives us a ton of one of the most important stats in the game: Critical Chance. With five pieces active, AY gives us 986 Critical Chance at base. Whenever you deal Martial melee damage, your Critical Chance increases by another 298 for five seconds, stacking up to five times. To keep those stacks from dropping, make sure that you Light Attack on your front bar at least once every five seconds. Because it’s a Heavy Armor set, run it exclusively on weapons and jewelry, replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment is a Medium Armor set from the trial Sanity’s Edge. At base, it increases your damage done to monsters by 7%. Whenever you interrupt a target while in combat, that bonus increases to 21% for 30 seconds. Because that proc condition is rarely something we can activate in an organized raid, for all intents and purposes we consider (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment primarily for its reliable 7% damage done increase.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria

(Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set from the trial Cloudrest, and this is another classic. With five pieces active, (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria gives us 200 Weapon and Spell Damage passively. Whenever you deal damage with a Light or Heavy Attack, you create a ring of fire beneath you for eight seconds. Standing in that ring increases your Weapon and Spell Damage by another 44 for five seconds, stacking up to ten times. That gives us 440 Weapon and Spell Damage at max stacks, or 640 total when we include the passive portion of the five piece bonus. This set can be a little tricky to maintain though. You need to recreate the ring as often as possible and make sure that you stand inside it at least once every five seconds to refresh your stacks. We can get away with running a set that gives a stat increase on the front bar because that buff comes from a proc. It lasts regardless of which bar we’re on as long as we maintain our stacks. Because (Perfected) Mantle of Siroria is a Light Armor set, we only want to run it on weapons and jewelry.

Tide Born Windstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is a craftable set found at the Tide Born Foundry in Solstice. It increases your direct damage done to monsters by 15%, which is a huge buff and makes it one of the strongest craftable sets in the game. If you don’t have any of the previous options, Tide Born can perform very close to our meta sets.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run Tide-Born Wildstalker on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

Kvatch Gladiator

An oddly specific Templar exclusive, Kvatch Gladiator gives us a bunch of Crit Chance for its second and third piece, but more importantly, gives nearly 1500 Weapon and Spell Damage against targets below 25% health. Since such a large portion of the Plar's DPS centers around Radiant Oppression, Kvatch becomes a uniquely strong craftable set for the Templar, and one to even consider slotting for certain raid scenarios. For example, when Sanity's Edge first came out, many teams intentionally included Templars with Kvatch Gladiator because the First and Third boss execute phases were incredibly difficult, and began at around 25%. Taking a damage loss in the fist 75% to NUKE the most difficult and most dangerous portion of the fight can be a very worthwhile tradeoff. Because we use this set primarily as a DPS increase for Radiant Oppression, it's one that we should almost always run on the front bar Weapons and Jewelry.

Highland Sentinel

Highland Sentinel is the second strongest craftable set, and its crafting station can be found in West Weald. This set gives us a ton of Critical Chance, which is one of the most valuable stats in the game, but its proc condition is very odd. With five pieces active, the set gives us 986 Critical Chance passively. Then, every second that you stand still in combat gives you a stack of Sentinel’s Eye, adding another 443 Critical Chance per stack, up to three stacks. Every second that you move removes one stack. This condition can be very tricky to maintain, especially for newer players, so I don’t necessarily recommend Highland Sentinel as a go to replacement. But if you’re okay trying to min max with the tools that you have, you can pair Tide-Born Wildstalker with Highland Sentinel and have very good success. Generally, I would use Tide-Born Wildstalker first. Highland Sentinel can only be run on the body.

Order's Wrath

A slightly weaker but much easier option to maintain is Order's Wrath. This set gives us a little bit less Critical Chance than Highland Sentinel, but it also gives us Critical Damage, making it strong and versatile for newer players, unoptimized groups, or even solo and four man groups. You can craft it at Steadfast Hammer and Saw in High Isle and Amenos.

Run Order's Wrath on weapons and jewelry when replacing Slivers of Null Arca.

Run Order's Wrath on the body when replacing Aetheric Lancer.

Mythics and Arena Weapons

(Perfected) Caustic Arrow

(Perfected) Caustic Arrow is a strong playstyle alternative if you want a bow for single target boss fights. Casting Poison Injection gives us 330 Weapon and Spell Damage against enemies affected by it. It isn’t nearly as strong as the Maelstrom Greatsword for this build, so treat it as a playstyle choice rather than a meta substitution.

(Perfected) Spectral Cloak

(Perfected) Spectral Cloak reduces our damage taken and increases our damage done by 6% while Blade Cloak is active. It isn’t stronger than our main setup and is rarely used in a meta Plar build, but it’s a solid alternative if you don’t have the Maelstrom Greatsword or Master's Bow.

The Velothi Ur Mage's Amulet

Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest mythic for AoE damage. Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps us reach the pen cap when AoE targets do not all have debuffs like Crusher for example. Most importantly, it increases our damage done to monsters by 15%, but this comes at the cost of reducing our Light and Heavy Attack damage by 99%.

That penalty matters in single target fights, where Light Attacks make up a meaningful share of our DPS. In AoE situations though, those attacks still hit only one target while our AoE abilities scale with the number of enemies. If Blazing Spear ticks for 10K on one target, that is 10K damage per second. Against two targets, it is 20K, and against three, its 30K, and so on. Since light attacks can only target one enemy at a time, giving them up costs relatively little in an AoE scenario. That makes Velothi’s 15% damage bonus the strongest mythic option for this setup.

Important: Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet does not mean we stop light attack weaving. Light attacks still proc enchants, status effects, and help maintain Ultimate generation. Keep weaving even though the attacks themselves barely deal damage.

Radiant Glory

In content, Radiant Glory is the morph that I would suggest. This morph doesn't start its damage scaling until 33%, as opposed to Radiant Oppression's 40%. This means that we start casting it a bit later, roughly between 20-25%, which makes it a bit weaker. However, it also makes sustain a bit easier on the Stam Spec of the Templar, and far more importantly, we trade this damage for a MASSIVE amount of healing. Radiant Glory heals you for 15% of the damage inflicted which basically makes you unkillable below 20%.

Endless Hail

When running a bow on the backbar, we can no longer use Stampede, so our best replacement is Endless Hail. We always want to run an AOE skill associated with our weapon for the sake of proccing our enchants: Elemental Blockade with a Destruction Staff, Quick Cloak with Dual Wield, Stampede with a greatsword, and in this case, Endless Hail with a bow. Outside of that necessity, Endless Hail is a very strong AOE on its own.

Poison Injection

Poison Injection is a relatively weak dot on its own. Its primary purpose is to proc the strongest single target arena bow that we have access to, (Perfected) Caustic Arrow. This weapon increases our Weapon and Spell damage by 330 to targets afflicted by Poison Injection, playing a similar role in increasing our damage output, just at a lower value than (Perfected) Merciless Charge's 12% Direct Damage bonus.

Shooting star

We lose access to Onslaught whenever we opt for a Bow/Bow setup. Our next strongest option is Shooting Star. When cast, a Meteor slams into your target dealing a massive burst of damage on impact. The initial tick restores 10 ultimate per target hit, then leaves behind a very strong, but pretty small AOE for 10 seconds. Simply put, when running a bow, Shooting Star is our strongest ultimate option on the Stamplar.

(Perfected) Sul Xan's Torment

(Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment is an absolute staple in trash builds. Whenever an enemy you've recently damaged dies, it will leave behind a vengeful soul, which, once collected gives 2160 Critical Chance and 12% Critical Damage for 30 seconds. This soul only lasts for 6 seconds, so you'll want to collect it quickly. Crit is king in trash pulls. Because an optimal trash rotation involves getting to and casting your spammable as quickly as possible, the amount of abilities you actually end up casting in a good pull are very few. For this reason, damage done is largely determined by how often you crit, so running a set that provides a buff that increases our Crit Chance is valuable on its own, but the Crit Damage (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment offers also helps bring us to the Crit Damage cap in trash where debuffs like Major Brittle might be less reliable. Finally, its 30 second duration means that it's very easy to maintain pull to pull AND we can even get some of the buff to bleed over into boss pulls if we play our cards right. It's an absolute must have!

Tide Born Wildstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is our strongest general trash pairing with (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment. This crafted set increases our direct damage done to monsters by 15%. Once the pull begins, all of our dots should be active or close to active, which means most of our casts should be direct damage spammables like Biting Jabs or Whirling Blades, so that bonus gets a ton of value.

The Velothi Ur Mage's Amulet

The Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest Mythic for this AOE setup. It gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps when single target debuffs like Crusher aren't covering everything we're hitting, and Minor Force, which adds value when we're not already receiving that buff from the group.

The biggest reason we run it is the 15% damage done bonus against monsters. We lose 99% of our Light and Heavy Attack damage, but this is an easy trade in AOE encounters. The raw damage done of an ability numerically doubles when you're attacking two targets, triples when you're attacking 3, and so on: if an AoE ability ticks for 20K against 1 target, 20K times 2 targets is now worth 40K total damage done. Light Attacks can only hit one target at a time, so the more targets there are, the less raw DPS value the Light Attack is worth.

As an IMPORTANT NOTE just because you have the Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet equipped DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN STOP LIGHT ATTACKING. Light Attack Weaving still procs enchants, which do decent damage on their own, help proc status effects which do very good damage, and help maintain ult gen. They're still incredibly important.

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley increases Arrow Barrage’s already strong damage. In trash, we can cast Arrow Barrage while approaching a pack, getting it started before combat, and its short 10 second duration means that we'll be able to get its full value even in a quick trash pull. On a cast to cast basis, that makes the ability stronger than a longer dot like Elemental Blockade if we aren't getting Elemental Blockade's full duration for example. That said, if your trash pulls last longer, in the 15 to 20 second range, Elemental Blockade + (Perfected) Crushing Wall will likely be a tad more optimal.

Slimecraw

When running a Mythic and Arena Weapon, we will have room for a 1 piece monster bonus. Crit Chance is the strongest one piece stat that we can obtain for gear, so we will want to run any monster set whose one piece is a line of Crit Chance. My preference is Slimecraw, just because it tends to be the most common shoulder people have due to its historical relevance.

(Perfected Ansuul's Torment)

(Perfected) Ansuul's Torment is a Medium Armor set from the trial Sanity’s Edge that adds a ton of Critical Chance through its two piece bonus and the additional Perfected five piece stat line, while also increasing our damage done to monsters by 7%. Whenever we interrupt an enemy while in combat, the set gives us an additional 14% damage done to monsters for 30 seconds.

With our (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment buff active, (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment is the next best trial set we can run in trash. It follows the same idea as Tide-Born Wildstalker: increasing our damage done beats the AoE proc alternatives available to a Plar. Swap (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment on for pulls where the (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment buff is already active, then swap back to (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment before the buff expires. It's a small optimization, but an optimization nonetheless.

Tide Born Wildstalker

Tide-Born Wildstalker is our strongest general trash pairing with (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment. This crafted set increases our direct damage done to monsters by 15%. Once the pull begins, all of our dots should be active or close to active, which means most of our casts should be direct damage spammables like Biting Jabs or Whirling Blades, so that bonus gets a ton of value.

The Velothi Ur Mage's Amulet

The Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest Mythic for this AOE setup. It gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps when single target debuffs like Crusher aren't covering everything we're hitting, and Minor Force, which adds value when we're not already receiving that buff from the group.

The biggest reason we run it is the 15% damage done bonus against monsters. We lose 99% of our Light and Heavy Attack damage, but this is an easy trade in AOE encounters. The raw damage done of an ability numerically doubles when you're attacking two targets, triples when you're attacking 3, and so on: if an AoE ability ticks for 20K against 1 target, 20K times 2 targets is now worth 40K total damage done. Light Attacks can only hit one target at a time, so the more targets there are, the less raw DPS value the Light Attack is worth.

As an IMPORTANT NOTE just because you have the Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet equipped DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN STOP LIGHT ATTACKING. Light Attack Weaving still procs enchants, which do decent damage on their own, help proc status effects which do very good damage, and help maintain ult gen. They're still incredibly important.

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley increases Arrow Barrage’s already strong damage. In trash, we can cast Arrow Barrage while approaching a pack, getting it started before combat, and its short 10 second duration means that we'll be able to get its full value even in a quick trash pull. On a cast to cast basis, that makes the ability stronger than a longer dot like Elemental Blockade if we aren't getting Elemental Blockade's full duration for example. That said, if your trash pulls last longer, in the 15 to 20 second range, Elemental Blockade + (Perfected) Crushing Wall will likely be a tad more optimal.

Slimecraw

When running a Mythic and Arena Weapon, we will have room for a 1 piece monster bonus. Crit Chance is the strongest one piece stat that we can obtain for gear, so we will want to run any monster set whose one piece is a line of Crit Chance. My preference is Slimecraw, just because it tends to be the most common shoulder people have due to its historical relevance.

(Perfected) Sul Xan's Torment

(Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment is an absolute staple in trash builds. Whenever an enemy you've recently damaged dies, it will leave behind a vengeful soul, which, once collected gives 2160 Critical Chance and 12% Critical Damage for 30 seconds. This soul only lasts for 6 seconds, so you'll want to collect it quickly. Crit is king in trash pulls. Because an optimal trash rotation involves getting to and casting your spammable as quickly as possible, the amount of abilities you actually end up casting in a good pull are very few. For this reason, damage done is largely determined by how often you crit, so running a set that provides a buff that increases our Crit Chance is valuable on its own, but the Crit Damage (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment offers also helps bring us to the Crit Damage cap in trash where debuffs like Major Brittle might be less reliable. Finally, its 30 second duration means that it's very easy to maintain pull to pull AND we can even get some of the buff to bleed over into boss pulls if we play our cards right. It's an absolute must have!

In trash, I generally recommend (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment with Mechanical Acuity over (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment with Mechanical Acuity. Most groups won't reach the Critical Damage cap without (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment. In an extremely optimized group with tight stacks and a comp that covers that gap, (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment can be a little stronger. If your (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment buff is about to expire before an Mechanical Acuity pull, keep (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment. If you already have your (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment buff before the pull, then swap to (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment and Mechanical Acuity.

MEchanical Acuity

In burst fights, Mechanical Acuity is the absolute strongest set that you can run. Whenever you deal non critical damage, you gain a stack of Mechanical Acuity for four seconds, granting 20% Critical Strike Chance per stack. You can gain one stack per second, up to five stacks, and each new stack refreshes the four second duration. Once you Reach five stacks, or if the effect expires before you do, Mechanical Acuity cannot activate again for 25 seconds.

Again, Crit is king in trash pulls, an optimal trash rotation involves getting to and casting your spammable as quickly as possible, so the amount of abilities you actually end up casting in a good pull are very few. Because of its long cooldown though, we will usually try to run acuity anytime we are planning on dropping our ultimate in trash, to further increase our burstiest damaging moments.

The Velothi Ur Mage's Amulet

The Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest Mythic for this AOE setup. It gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps when single target debuffs like Crusher aren't covering everything we're hitting, and Minor Force, which adds value when we're not already receiving that buff from the group.

The biggest reason we run it is the 15% damage done bonus against monsters. We lose 99% of our Light and Heavy Attack damage, but this is an easy trade in AOE encounters. The raw damage done of an ability numerically doubles when you're attacking two targets, triples when you're attacking 3, and so on: if an AoE ability ticks for 20K against 1 target, 20K times 2 targets is now worth 40K total damage done. Light Attacks can only hit one target at a time, so the more targets there are, the less raw DPS value the Light Attack is worth.

As an IMPORTANT NOTE just because you have the Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet equipped DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN STOP LIGHT ATTACKING. Light Attack Weaving still procs enchants, which do decent damage on their own, help proc status effects which do very good damage, and help maintain ult gen. They're still incredibly important.

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley increases Arrow Barrage’s already strong damage. In trash, we can cast Arrow Barrage while approaching a pack, getting it started before combat, and its short 10 second duration means that we'll be able to get its full value even in a quick trash pull. On a cast to cast basis, that makes the ability stronger than a longer dot like Elemental Blockade if we aren't getting Elemental Blockade's full duration for example. That said, if your trash pulls last longer, in the 15 to 20 second range, Elemental Blockade + (Perfected) Crushing Wall will likely be a tad more optimal.

Balorgh

When running a Mythic and Arena Weapon, we will have room for a 1 piece monster bonus. Since Acuity will bring us to 100% Crit Chance, we'll want to replace Slimecraw with a set that offers a line of the next best stat, Weapon and Spell Damage. My preference is Balorgh, just because it tends to be the most common monster people have due to its historical relevance.

Arkasis Genius

Arkasis's Genius is a very niche but very powerful set. From the Dungeon Stonegarden, this Heavy Armor set restores 44 ultimate to you and the closest 3 allies whenever you drink a potion. What groups can do, is plan "Arkasis Stacks" where the team splits into 3 groups of 4, and a callout is made for everybody to consume a potion, giving each stacked player 176 ultimate instantly.

This is most commonly performed both right after boss fights assuming players are dumping their front bar ults even to finish a boss fight as quickly as possible, and right BEFORE a boss fight as well so that players can freely drop ultimates in trash, and still be guaranteed to get one back before the boss.

(Perfected) Sul Xan's Torment

(Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment is an absolute staple in trash builds. Whenever an enemy you've recently damaged dies, it will leave behind a vengeful soul, which, once collected gives 2160 Critical Chance and 12% Critical Damage for 30 seconds. This soul only lasts for 6 seconds, so you'll want to collect it quickly. Crit is king in trash pulls. Because an optimal trash rotation involves getting to and casting your spammable as quickly as possible, the amount of abilities you actually end up casting in a good pull are very few. For this reason, damage done is largely determined by how often you crit, so running a set that provides a buff that increases our Crit Chance is valuable on its own, but the Crit Damage (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment offers also helps bring us to the Crit Damage cap in trash where debuffs like Major Brittle might be less reliable. Finally, its 30 second duration means that it's very easy to maintain pull to pull AND we can even get some of the buff to bleed over into boss pulls if we play our cards right. It's an absolute must have!

Since we most often use Arkasis's Genius right before or after a boss, we want the (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment buff to bleed into the boss fight or get its first activation immediately following a boss fight. If we use Arkasis's Genius in the middle of a series of trash pulls, run (Perfected) Ansuul's Torment when the (Perfected) Sul-Xan's Torment buff is already active.

The Velothi Ur Mage's Amulet

The Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet is our strongest Mythic for this AOE setup. It gives us Offensive Penetration, which helps when single target debuffs like Crusher aren't covering everything we're hitting, and Minor Force, which adds value when we're not already receiving that buff from the group.

The biggest reason we run it is the 15% damage done bonus against monsters. We lose 99% of our Light and Heavy Attack damage, but this is an easy trade in AOE encounters. The raw damage done of an ability numerically doubles when you're attacking two targets, triples when you're attacking 3, and so on: if an AoE ability ticks for 20K against 1 target, 20K times 2 targets is now worth 40K total damage done. Light Attacks can only hit one target at a time, so the more targets there are, the less raw DPS value the Light Attack is worth.

As an IMPORTANT NOTE just because you have the Velothi Ur-Mage's Amulet equipped DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN STOP LIGHT ATTACKING. Light Attack Weaving still procs enchants, which do decent damage on their own, help proc status effects which do very good damage, and help maintain ult gen. They're still incredibly important.

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley

(Perfected) Thunderous Volley increases Arrow Barrage’s already strong damage. In trash, we can cast Arrow Barrage while approaching a pack, getting it started before combat, and its short 10 second duration means that we'll be able to get its full value even in a quick trash pull. On a cast to cast basis, that makes the ability stronger than a longer dot like Elemental Blockade if we aren't getting Elemental Blockade's full duration for example. That said, if your trash pulls last longer, in the 15 to 20 second range, Elemental Blockade + (Perfected) Crushing Wall will likely be a tad more optimal.

Slimecraw

When running a Mythic and Arena Weapon, we will have room for a 1 piece monster bonus. Crit Chance is the strongest one piece stat that we can obtain for gear, so we will want to run any monster set whose one piece is a line of Crit Chance. My preference is Slimecraw, just because it tends to be the most common shoulder people have due to its historical relevance.