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11 Templar is the game's dedicated tank. It holds the front line with a sword and shield, generates threat, absorbs the mechanics the rest of the party cannot, and converts good defensive timing into offence rather than just surviving it.
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33 FieldDetailRoleTankWeaponSword and shieldSignature mechanicBlock, and a Perfect Block judgment windowParty fitThe main tank slot in five-player Expedition  and ten-player Sanctuary  content
44 How It Plays
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66 The Templar's core loop is defensive timing rather than a damage rotation. A Perfect Block, added to the live build in March 2026, is a judged window rather than a passive roll, and the class carries a shield-triggered follow-up that punishes a successful block. Its passive line feeds Frontal Damage Amplification, one of the directional stats added with the Chapter 1 update, so facing matters to a Templar in a way it does not to a ranged class.
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88 Named abilities from the Korean and Taiwanese live build include a heavy strike line built around Fierce Strike, Heartfelt Strike, Desperate Strike and Threatening Barrage, alongside Judgment and Punishment as the follow-up payoffs.
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1010 Party Synergy
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1212 Templar is one of the classes NCsoft deliberately pushed toward group value. The April 2026 balance passes stripped party-wide synergy effects from the four pure damage classes and strengthened team-wide synergy on the tank and support classes, Templar among them, so that filling the tank slot carries a reason beyond survivability.
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1414 The September 2, 2026 pass reworked the class's strike chain so that leading with Fierce Strike no longer lost efficiency, redistributing damage across the line to widen skill choice: several core strikes gained 30 percent PvE damage, Judgment gained 15 percent and Punishment 20 percent, while two other strikes were trimmed.
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1616 Shared Systems
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1818 Every class runs the same underlying loop: tab-targeting with active dodge and parry, skill chains that prompt a follow-up key, a Groggy stagger gauge on bosses, and Perfect Block or Perfect Dodge windows on a well-timed input. Loadouts hold twelve active skills, a set of Stigma slots and ten passives, allocated with Mastery Points and Stigma Shards.
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2020 Naming and Sourcing
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2222 Ability names on this page are translated from Korean patch notes for the Korean and Taiwanese live build. NCsoft has not published official English names for most individual skills, so treat any single ability name as provisional and any single number as a live-build snapshot.
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2424 Related Pages
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2626 Classes for the full roster and the balance history. Combat and Skill Chains for the shared input loop. Gear and Progression for equipment. Daeva System and Daevanion Board for talents. Stigma System for the enhanceable skill layer.