yes but cs is physical and need a talent to make it not physical plus windfury so it can overtake templar strike. keep in mind if you take templar strike then you have a free talent point to put somewhere else for a solid gain since ts is radiant and thus ignores armor. while the stat “scaling” is a minimal annoyance at best
Not when you pick up blades of light. It then becomes holy strike and avoids armor reduction anyways.
The only way currently TS would over take CS/CSSA is if you skip the blades of light talent, which you could make a build for it, but it will be relatively still be the AoE build anyways.
ya basically, but since the topic is on SL arent we talking about aoe? its not that far behind in st as well. considering alot of people who dislike csaa misplay it to the point of a loss anyways
I think their rational behind CS overall is to give us an avenue to let it scale with Mastery.
BoJ already scales with mastery baseline.
I do think it’s odd that BoL changes 4 abilities to Holystrike while Burning Crusade changes effectively 2, maybe BoJ could be part of the BC one?
Idk.
I think that, in their mind, Blade of light serves as a way to make CS scale with mastery when you go Holystrike and that we’re meant to pick TS when we don’t take blade of light to go radiant.
TS also makes Searing Light better* in ST since it gives you a steady way to proc it.
Problem is, TS scales badly and its too many GCD to use.
I don’t dislike the combo nature of it but maybe it could work differently, like if the combo part was linked to another ability.
For example, TS is a 2 part combo BUT the second attack triggers automatically on using BoJ within 4 second of using TS.
This way they can remove the weird GCD/CD interaction on it and it makes it potentially compete with CSAA with some more tuning maybe?
ok, i do more pvp then anything else what i meant is it would make searing light more useful (in pvp) if the burning crusade talent turned crusaders strike into radiant damage since i dont think you would be picking up both burning crusade and blades of light.
also wouldnt holystrike damage still be effected by armor since its holy+physical where as radiant is holy+fire?
I do sometimes.
It takes the path of least resistance.
if it changed would you still take both? they could always make it that it made your auto attacks radiant this would make templars strike the more desirable choice if you went down the branch
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Depends but I don’t think that’s what matters.
When I take both, it is because I want both Divine Arbiter and Searing light or even just BC.
I take BoL because it is a big damage upgrade to have your CSAA scale with mastery.
I suspect that if BC gave the same effect but radiant, the point on BoL might go somewhere else if it was the only only one you wanted but if you want DA you’ll still take it.
Even if you don’t want SL, you might still want BC since it increases all radiant damage by 5%.
I don’t think they can put it on both and I think that’s part of why TS is radiant by itself.
At least I don’t think it would fit their design philosophy.
I can imagine players being genuinely confused about which type their CS does if they take both.
In the end though, I think their should be a competitive option for Radiant CS in some form, I just don’t think the answer is having 2 identical talents on opposite ends.
In fact, the opposite, I think that BoL doing this might be restrictive in itself.
I think that choice should probably be straight on the CS “upgrade” node.
Thematically I would reverse the damage type.
Plus something to change the combo mechanic to not involve having 2 GCD to use on TS.
(Burning Crusade talent - Crusading Strike)
(Templar Hero talent seems to fit Holystrike, so maybe Templar Strike should be HS to)
Posted this in the Bug Forums back in September. No response, no fix, no adjustment. 
Read up, 15sec internal CD, it cant streak.
But you seem aware of the CD.
Problem is that will only get a 3proc per minute in AoE, it won’t have that in ST ever which is kinda bad.