PoE Templar, Hardcore, League Starter, Lightning builds

PoB containing two alternate trees for an Absolution Guardian starter, for SSFHC. (Can be adopted to your league) (Two different trees) Burden of Truth can be switched until obtained. Might make a comphrensive minions ( Absolution and others) guide on here later.

Do note that all of the dps numbers shown in this default tree are without any DPS from items, the normal staff equipped is only done so to enable some values from the tree, and the rare armour was added to give a better idea of final health/armour/ES numbers with mediocre gear. I think hitting 1m DPS with this build with budget bin/SSF items should be fairly painless after the buffs. I know that 1m DPS is no world beater nowadays, but this build should scale pretty well with good gear, and being this tanky ought to count for something. --Items-- look for a Crus

Important notes Mana regen % anywhere you can get it from is really really good - start with clarity and replace it with herald of thunder once you get enough mana regen Gloves w/ spell damage leeched as ES are a huge survivability boost. Surgeons prefix on flasks is stupidly OP (we have 100% crit chance and fast cast speed so this is insanely good for us and gives the flasks massive uptime on bossfights)