Two more things:
1.) You are survivable in PVP as a Dark Templar. At level 40 I can kill a level 45 assassin pretty easily. I've fought several assassins ranging from 37-45 and none got me below 1/2 life before they ran off close to dead or died (the exception being a level 45 one I tried to fight and hit frenzy stance instead of charge...which ended badly for those that know what frenzy stance is). Barbarians are pretty easy to kill too. The hardest fights I've had were against Bear Shamans, Tempests of Set, and HoX's. The Bear/Tempest are usually long fights that have gone either way. The Hox usually either does a ton of burst early and stays to try finishing me off (a long fight) or his burst is low and he dies/runs away. I've only fought one guardian, but he was a keyboard turner so does not count since I was hitting him in the back w/o being hit back for over 90% of the fight.
I have also fought alone against groups and not died. At 38 I was fighting a level 37 assassin, 37 barbarian, and 35 barbarian. I was able to kill the assassin several times and do enough damage to the 35 barbarian to make him run away. Once the 37 barbarian was alone he died (the 1st time) or ran away (every time after the 1st). i think the reason the assassin died was because in a 3 vs 1 people get lazy and he probably failed to watch his health.
The lack of CC hurts early on, but in groups you do not notice it as much. With Zorg or Motig to knockdown or stun/root, I could get behind someone, hotkey into frenzy stance, unload some combos, then hotkey back out of frenzy for a good burst.
Even in my low 20s when 3 Frenzy were trying to kill me (levels 25-30is), I was able to kite them halfway across the zone to the waiting arms of a 50+ Mysh.
I think the best way to go with the class is deep into both class-specific trees for all of the CCs available. On the way to those CCs I plan to pick up every proc feat possible for damage and also Soul Barrier with some mana regen feats. If I am using big combos I am normally in frenzy on a CC target anyway, so the combo feats wont help as much as procs that can go off while circle strafing. The only combo I use a lot in pvp is Life Leach, and other than that I save stam for when someone is CCd or trying to run away.
2.) I did not say much about PVE, but a Dark Templar is a pretty decent tank, and really shines in group pulls.
A guardian can probably single target tank a lot better than us, but the gap narrows greatly and might even swing to the Dark Templar's favor in larger group/add pulls.
With all of our AoE procs, Curse of Gwahlur, and Sadism we do a good deal of AoE damage while tanking, and the more things that are hitting us the better that damage gets with Curse of Gwahlur stacking on more and more mobs.
Motig, a Conquerer, and I did the Sanctum last night with three of us at level 38. the mobs there are 38/39 elites and we cleared the whole thing with me tanking, Motig healing, and the Conq DPSing.
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