Quote Originally Posted by Mhaeric View Post
I'm using this incarnation of the Templar as an inspiration for this theme.
Even that iteration of Templar is more focused on Knightswords than it is on Spears: only 4 of their learned abilities are from spears compared to 5 from knightswords, on top of which, all of their best weapons are knightswords by a significant amount. It's part of what makes it really really wonky to implement Templar.

Even so, Templar is still "holy warrior with a spear" compared to "holy warrior with a sword", even if there are some differences in the support spells they bring (Templar is more "anti-caster", as opposed to "light and dark", whereas Paladin is a more standard holy warrior). Try as you might to play upon the differences in their spell list, there is still the fundamental problem insofar as they're both still using the same fundamental theme of holy warrior.