Choosing Your Race
Play as an Argonian. Argonians are a great choice for a Templar, if playing as your group's healer. They have a passive boost to experience for the Restoration staff which helps you gain access to those skills quicker, as well as boosts to their own healing, which can help keep them from becoming a target of the enemy team. Argonians are available to those in the Ebonheart Pact.
Play as an Altmer. Altmer have a natural bonus to their magicka pool and magicka regen, so they make great Templars. They also have bonuses to magicka damage and the Destruction staff, which should allow them to protect themselves from enemies. This makes them better as a damage-dealing Templar, with a more minor focus on healing. Altmer are available to those in the Altmeri Dominion.
Play as a Breton. Bretons make a decent choice for a Templar, as they have a race-based bonus to magicka. They also have a number of race-based bonuses which allow them to protect themselves, important for keeping them alive long enough to heal your team. Bretons are available to those in the Daggerfall Covenant.
Play as a Dunmer. Dunmer have a slightly larger magicka pool to draw from, which can help them make a good Templar. They also have a good mix of resistances and offensive bonuses, which keeps their role in battle more balanced. Their increased fire damage arguably makes them best for damage in this class. They work best as a combat-based Templar. Dunmer are available to those in the Ebonheart Pact.
Choosing Your Abilities
Try the Aedric's Spear tree. These skills are focused mainly on dealing damage. Most are AOE attacks, allowing for great crowd control.
Try the Dawn's Wrath tree. These skills are more defensive in nature, blocking or reflecting enemy abilities and attacks. These are useful regardless of play style for this class.
Try the Restoring Light tree. These skills are mainly centered on healing and restoring stats, either for yourself or your allies. Be careful though: some prevent you from moving while they are being cast.
Strategizing Your Gameplay
Be a fighting Templar. There are two styles of gameplay for Templars. The first is a more combat-based style, where you will be a damage dealer for your party, with a lesser focus on healing them. If you want to do this style of gameplay, you'll want to focus on the skills in the Aedric's Spear tree (and to a lesser extent, Dawn's Wrath). Good weapons for this style of gameplay include two-handed and sword and shield. Points should be distributed mainly into magicka and stamina, but it will be important to have some points distributed into health as well, since your character will see some action.
Be a healing Templar. The more common role and better use of the Templar is as the party healer (this being the second style of gameplay for this class). Templars have many abilities which allow them to play the very crucial role of keeping everyone alive through a battle. If you want to do this style of gameplay, you'll want to focus on the skills in the Restoring Light tree, though you can also pick up some of the others in order to defend yourself. A restoration staff will of course be a must have for this class, but you can also build your skills in another weapon as well, in order to maintain a basic ability to protect yourself. Almost all of your points should be going in to your magicka. Since there are a few spells which let you heal yourself as well, having a higher health will be much less of a concern and you should be doing very little attacking, making stamina a very minor concern.
Wear light armor. The light armor skills include bonuses to magicka absorption and your magicka pool, so it is best to put healing Templars in light armor. Heavy or light armor can be used for a combat-based Templar.
Support your allies. The best use of your time, as a Templar, will be to support your allies by keeping them alive. This will usually mean healing, but it can also mean playing defense as well. This role requires you to be unselfish, and focused only on group success, not personal glory.
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