A Simple Fix to Restore Templar Identity: Holy tag and Holy Scaling

One of the most fun and most loved Diablo II builds I ever played was, "The Frost Zealot", and unfortunately there is nothing close to it in PoE. In fact, there is nothing "Templar" in PoE in which the Templar is actually best at or even particularly good at doing. The Templar has a serious identity problem. The good thing though is that a fix is fairly easy.

A simple non-evasive fix to restore Templar identity would be to, add a "Holy" tag to Templar based skill gems, and also add Holy power to the elemental nodes on the skill tree in the Templar area.

Skill gems such as: Purifying Flame, Wave of Conviction, Smite, Consecrated Path, Zealotry, Holy Flame Totem, Divine Ire, Herald of Purity, Glacial Hammer (or holy variant?), and maybe Lightning Strike.

No other class currently needs or uses a “Holy” identity. “Holy” would be a Templar-only thematic space, and it gives Inquisitor, Hierophant, and Guardian distinct roles. It also lines up with where I think PoE 2 is going. If you really want to be extra cool, you could add a "Holy Aura" to really knock our socks off.

A “Holy” tag and Holy-scaling nodes would finally make the Templar feel like the divine battle-mage/cleric/paladin archetype he is clearly intended to be.

1% of Conq Path users are Templars, 83% Juggernauts, that thematic opposite to Templar.


A second fix would be to split Ignite on hit from Elementalist in two halves. Spell hit should be Elementalist and Attack hit should be Inquisitor. 81% of all Eviscerate builds are Elementlist. If that is not absurd I don't know what is. Once again Casters doing melee better than melee by a huge margin.