Covenant Warrior

This is a non-specific template. It can work with a variety of weapons and secondary skills, and should be considered more of a shell designed around non-magic use.

This is a template designed to take advantage of the many systems in game that are an alternative to magic use:

Uses Arcane Lore for creature and life self buffs.
Uses Melee Defense, Missile Defense, and Magic Defense defense to wield Covenant Armor/Olthoi Armor in place of steel tinkered and baned armor.
Uses Alchemy to wield Alchemical Throwing Phials in place of offensive life magic (Imperil, Vulns, Fester)
Uses Assess Creature to wield Gearcrafted Lenses in place of life magic and in addition to Alchemical Throwing Phials for Imperil.

The end result is designed so that you can wield the top tier covenant armor, regardless of defense requirement, and you can wield the top tier, 400 base alchemy skill phials with only trained alchemy. Assess Creature is specialized to wield the Incomparable Lense.

Setup

Heritage

There are several possible heritage choices, depending on what innate skills you would like to start with:

Tumerok, or Aluvian with changed innate abilities - Choose these races if you wish to start off with specialized Assess Creature, for using Gearcrafted Lenses.
Undead, or Empyrean with changed innate abilities - Choose these races if you wish to start off with trained Alchemy, for using Alchemical Throwing Phials.
Empyrean, or Undead with changed innate abilities - Choose these races if you wish to start off with specialized Arcane Lore, for easier activation of magical items.
Sho, or Umbraen/Penumbraen Shadows with changed innate abilities - Choose these races if you wish to start off with trained Unarmed Combat.
Gear Knight, or Viamontian with changed innate abilities - Choose these races if you wish to start off with trained Mace.
Gharu'ndim, or Lugian with changed innate abilities - Choose these races if you wish to start off with trained Staff.
Lugian, or Gharu'ndim with changed innate abilities - Choose these races if you wish to start off with trained Thrown Weapons.

Be sure to review the innate augmentations as well, which are listed on Character Races.

Innate Attributes

Your innate attributes are not important to the completion of this template. Any of these will work:

High attack & melee defense

Strength	100
Endurance	10
Coordination	100
Quickness	100
Focus	10
Self	10

High attack & secondary skills

Strength	100
Endurance	10
Coordination	100
Quickness	10
Focus	100
Self	10

Attribute aug ready, completion focus

Strength	100
Endurance	10
Coordination	100
Quickness	15
Focus	95
Self	10

Attribute aug ready, completion quickness

Strength	100
Endurance	10
Coordination	100
Quickness	65
Focus	45
Self	10

Innate Skills

You should start with Melee Defense and your weapon skill of choice specialized, and healing trained. The rest of your skills depends on personal preference.

Completion

Skills

Specialized

Required: Assess Creature, Melee Defense, Missile Defense, and Magic Defense, Weapon skill of Choice.

Optional: Arcane Lore if you went with an inexpensive weapon like UA or Spear

Trained

Required: Alchemy, Healing, Arcane Lore if not specialized

Optional: Cooking, Lockpick, Item Enchantment if you cannot get by without recalls.

Attributes

Must use all 10 attribute augs to complete:

Strength	290	(100 innate)
Endurance	200	(10 innate)
Coordination	290	(100 innate)
Quickness	255	(65 innate)
Focus	285	(95 innate)
Self	200	(10 innate)

Character Templates
Stock Templates
Current	Bow Hunter, Life Caster, Soldier, Swashbuckler, War Mage, Wayfarer
Retired	Archer, Blademaster, Enchanter, Life Mage, Sorcerer, Vagabond, Warrior
Player Created Templates
Magic	Advanced War Mage, Battle Mage, CLaW Mage, Martyr Mage, Melee Mage, Melee Martyr Mage, Og Mage, Opal Mage, Opal Tank Mage
Melee	Covenant Warrior
Missile	Mage Slayer (PvP), PvM Archer, Pure mage/archer (no war/void)
Mule & Crafter	None listed
Hybrid	Combat Alchemist, Hybrid Mage/UA (PvP)
Miscellaneous	None listed