hey cool to see a fellow DT. i was the third pvp 10 dt on eu servers and loved the concept that the more damage you do the better you survive.
There are multiple similarities between dt and guardians:
Worst mobility
Low healthpool (DT had lowest amongst soldiers)
Active skills for survivability instead of passive stats like helthpool and mitigation even though dt could mitigate well enough.
Rather bad cc.
Back after game release i actually tried to get a similar playstyle out of my guardian and its absolutely doable and also fun.
The back bone is omnomberry (life tap food) and sigil of blood. These stacks so with high crit chance you will get back approx 340 health every 2 seconds from crits. This is actually no bad at all.
Runes of vampyrism is rubbish tbh. The life leech from them are mediocre and i would invest in rune of speed or hoelbrok instead. Speed for vitality and mobility and hoelbrak for the reduced condi.
Weapons ofc, you only need one sword in true templar style and luckily the cooldowns are low and mobility ok so you dont need to swap to a second main hand. The sword you fit with sigil of blood and the shield and focus are fitted with sigil of leeching which leeches life when you swap. Mind you, you only need one sword and shield and focus and when you swap only the focus/shield are swapped if the second main hand slot is empty.
DTs weapons where shield and talisman and here you get shield and focus. One advise, check for a focus called “Adam”, its just pure dark Templar.
You can also use mace ofc as templars do but the playstyle with mace isnt templar at all and is also to slow to trigger food and sigils for leeching.
DTs are all about crit (Void of madness) and so are guardians as well. So trait wise you need to go for right hand strength to get very good crit chance which also increases your chance to leech. The stats in the build is without right hand strength and fury.
So your overall crit chance is about 65% and 20% extra from fury/meditations when bursting.
And for even more crit go meditations and 30 points in valor which also adds condi removal and some mobility and ability to escape with judges intervention.
5 points in honor for more survivability and 5 points in virtues because those are to good to miss out on.
Ofc you can use a scepter as ranged option and just fit a sigil of blood in the scepter as well.
Armor, well i would go full knights, those are the ones that can exploit the low healthpool and the leeching best and are also most true to the dt-koncept.
Triple meditations ofc and you can swap the healing skill for shelter but the new worthless meditation heal suits the dt concept. Works like pact of blood and we all know how situational that one is.
Renewed focus as elite ofc.
Here is my dark templar a la GW2. And you also find some pics below.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAs9enQElGabIyhwHiiIXg1DAeQ/hL46BEjYDB-jgCBofC0EGAUIhO3UIN7UasYqIasalYKXCyqYJ1grIa1CBUeBA-e
Dont be fooled by the low health pool, this cookie is tough. Avoid large scale battles though.
And best of all, the more damage you do the better you survive. Recognize the concept? :-)
