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	Radial Sweep
Line		Aedric Spear
Line Rank		12	Cost	75 Ultimate
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	–
Target		Area
Area		8 meters
Morphs
		Empowering Sweep Deals Physical damage. Duration is extended for each enemy hit. Grants Empower for duration.
		Crescent Sweep Deals additional damage to enemies in front of you.
Notes Magicka/Stamina Cost is based on a character of Level 50 160. Damage values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 7958, Max Health 8744, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1037.

Radial Sweep: Swing your Aedric spear around with holy vengeance, dealing [2998 / 3031 / 3065 / 3097] Magic Damage to all nearby enemies and an additional [1500 / 1516 / 1532 / 1550] Magic Damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds.

Empowering Sweep: Swing your Aedric spear around with holy vengeance, dealing [3099 / 3135 / 3167 / 3203] Physical Damage to all nearby enemies and an additional 1551 Physical Damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. The duration is extended by 2 seconds for each enemy hit. Gain Empower for the duration, increasing the damage of your Light Attacks by 40%.

Crescent Sweep: Swing your Aedric spear around with holy vengeance, dealing [3099 / 3135 / 3167 / 3204] Magic Damage to all nearby enemies and an additional 1551 Magic Damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. Enemies in your path will be hit for 60% more damage.

Radial Sweep deals magic damage to all nearby enemies with an additional damage over time for 6 seconds. Empowering Sweep protects you by reducing damage taken by 15% plus 4% for each enemy hit. Crescent Sweep adds more damage to enemies in front of you instead, and deals Physical Damage.

Notes

• At a cost of 75 Ultimate, this is one of the cheapest Ultimate abilities available, exceeded only by the Nightblade's Death Stroke.
• Empowering Sweep is a recommended morph for the Templar Initiate, Gleaming Champion, and Bastion of Light builds, while Crescent Sweep is recommended for Luminous Warrior.

Patch Notes

 

1.2.3

• Empowering Sweep: This Ultimate ability now gives 15% damage reduction and +4% damage reduction for each target hit instead of increasing your armor.

 

1.6.5

• Radial Sweep and all morphs are now a player-based area of effect attack that will also deal damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds, to enemies within 5 meters.

 

2.3.5

• Increased the radius of this ability and its morphs to 6 meters from 5 meters.
• Crescent Sweep: Increased the bonus to the initial hit provided by this morph to 66% more damage dealt from 33%.
• Empowering Sweep: Increased the duration of the damage reduction provided by this morph to 10 seconds from 8 seconds.

 

2.7.5

• The damage from this ability and its morphs can no longer be dodged.
  • Developer Comments: Changed as part of our overall Area of Effect consistency pass as described earlier.

 

4.2.5

• Empowering Sweep: This morph now deals Physical Damage instead of Magic Damage, and also now grants Major Protection for 6 seconds, plus 1 second for each target hit.
• Crescent Sweep:
  • This morph now deals Magic Damage instead of Physical Damage.
  • This morph now applies the frontal cone damage bonus to the initial hit and all subsequent ticks (was previously the initial hit only), but the damage bonus has been reduced to a 60% bonus from 66%.
    • Developer Comment: As stamina builds already have a bursty option with Dawnbreaker, we wanted Magicka Templars to have access to a similar option with Crescent Sweep. The change to Magicka damage, along with the increased overall damage, will now provide that option. Keep in mind this still requires targets to be in front of you when it hits!

 

5.0.5

• Increased the radius of this ability and its morphs to 8 meters from 6 meters.
• Empowering Sweep (morph): Redesigned this morph to offer damage, rather than survivability. The damage pulse after the initial hit now lasts 6 seconds at base, but is increased by 2 seconds for each enemy hit, up to a maximum of 6 enemies. It also now grants Empower for the duration, rather than Major Protection.
  • Developer Comment: The Templar has many Ultimates that operate defensively already in their other skill lines (Major Maim from Nova, Major Protection from Remembrance), and we found their toolkit for offensive moments wasn't being given enough opportunity. Back in Update 20, we adjusted Crescent Sweep to deal Magic Damage and introduced a bonus mechanism where enemies hit in a cone in front of you took bonus damage. We wanted the Physical Damage morph to also enable damage, but through alternative means. Now, the entire ability's duration will scale based on enemies hit, and will also grant Empower for the duration.