Vigor Leech & Ether Leech – Adds a stamina / mana drain effect to your drain life buff. Vigor leech is almost a MUST HAVE for pvp, because running out of stamina is a big issue in pvp. Ether Leech is also great for mana recovery if you spam soul barrier or ritualistic bloodshed.

Spell: Covenant of Arms - It works, and it works well. Coupled with Blighted Touch and Corrupt Weapon, you have a nice series of stacking unholy damage procs. Both Blighted Touch and this go off rather frequently, in my experience. These are good feats for the level you acquire them.

Curse of Gwahlur - Grants you a chance to inflict the curse of gwahlur on a enemy who strikes you. It will feed you with life as it damages the enemy. Stacks up to 3 times. A nice feat. It procs quite frequently and it will provide you with some life per tick. But its not that much. And the damage is quite useless. But you can feat around covenant of arms with this feat.

Talisman Mastery – This will boost your active covenant if you have a talisman equipped. It doesn’t matter what kind of talisman you wear, you will get the boost. At lvl 80 it will increase your covenant of arms by 40%. And that’s quite a lot! Great feat if you like to go the dps way. Because magical damage is the best way to enhance the Dark Templar dps.

Improved Dread Fury- Effect: It improves the aura of dread fury with magical lifetap. A very useful feat! It converts 4% of your proc unholy damage into life for you. Very nice if used together with covenant of pestilence and cabalistic hunger, because the massive aoe damage. If you fight with such feats against many mobs you will actually gain health.

Corrupt Weapon - A very nice two point feat, and it works. This goes off about as often as Blighted Touch and Covenant of arms, and it is a bleed proc, affecting the enemy three times, for around 15-30 damage each, every activation (thus about 45-90 damage each proc).

Improved Soul Covenants - Raises frequency of Covenant effects (thus the frequency of Covenant of arms and other covenants)

Approach of Death - Another excellent, working feat. Anytime Covenant of Arms goes off when the enemy is at about 50% or lower, an additional damage effect procs. It hits for about 9-39 damage, and sometimes it goes off TWICE during the same Covenant of arms activation.

Improved Martyrdom – It adds a stamina and mana restoration effect to martyrdom. Not too shabby in group play..

Sacrificial Fury – When you use martyrdom. You will get a melee damage buff for a short time.

Soul Barrier – This spell has gone through a lot of changes during beta. But as it is now it’s a great survivability spell. It converts a part of mana damage into mana damage (but never more than 50% of the damage inflicted). It stays on you for 18 sec or you run out of mana.

Ritualistic Bloodshed - Effect: Gives the Dark Templar a ability to increase the sadism counter by one. It uses 15% of your mana pool and the cost is increased by 2% for every stack. If you spam RB you will be out of mana very fast! Use this to keep Sadism up at 10 during pauses.

Desecrated Blood – It lowers the damage which the covenant of war inflicts on you if it triggers. And the chance to proc is increased.

Improved Infusion - I haven’t tested this one, but it might be great in group pvp situations. Because aura of infusion (unfeated) is decent too..

Soul Infusion – If you get hit with a spell while you have soul barrier up, it will convert a part of the damage into mana for yourself..

Improved Blood Pact - Reduces the cooldown of the Blood Pact spell. At full spec it reduces Blood Pact cooldown from 30 minutes to 5.

Invulnerable Soul – This enhances the covenant of invulnerability to absorb triggered blows (whatever triggered blows are?!?).

Cabalistic Hunger - A small lifetap when one of your procs goes off. And it is small. Weaker than your standard, 1st tier melee lifetap. A Blighted Touch proc going off for 150 would heal me for 6 points or so. As other lifetaps, it is a percentage of your damage dealt. This is most useful with Covenant of Putrescence due to how often it procs, but still only feeds you 3-4 health most of the time (at level 60). A full life-tap build may find use for this.

Vile Pestilence - Boosts the damage of the covenant of pestilence. If you play a lot with covenant of pestilence up (soloing, or tanking) you might find this useful.

Body of Pestilence - Removes the 5% movement penalty when using Pestilential Body.

Pestilential Cloud - Increases Pestilential Body area of effect. I can't be sure on this, but it seems to work. When fighting 3 mobs, they would all get hit every time, at a reasonable range.

Spell: Covenant of Putrescence - This, my fellow testers, is your best friend as a Dark Templar. It is a variation of Pestilential Body. Instead of the proc activating when you get hit, it activates when you strike. It’s a mix of covenant of pestilence and covenant of arms. And it has the best out of both. The damage from covenant of arms and the aoe effect of CoP. At level 60, without Talisman Mastery, it does ~65-95 damage, and with it, the damage increases to ~80-180. That's per hit, in an AoE.

Vile Putrescence - Increases the area of effect of Covenant of Putrescence. Once again, this is tough to test. I will assume that it does work, because I can move around while fighting 3 mobs and they will all take the AoE damage.

Dooming Presence - Summons a terrifying cloud of fear in a area around the templar. A fery useful pvp move, cause you can combine it with the other stuns from the depravity tree. Godly in pvp!! The new animation is quite cool too! A warping pillar of doom comes down on the templar and explodes around him.

Warped Dread - The dark warrior's outworld is so strong they can summon its power to protect themselves, absorbing damage. The shield also warps reality so enemy hits are likely to miss. When activated the enemy gains a -50% miss chance debuff for 6 sec. The shield however doesn't function while i was testing it. Maybe a good combo in combination with covenant of invulnerability and soul barrier.

Soldier General Tree

This was posted by johnnie0jr. I rewr