The warp is 1 hour long CD, with 5 people at level 5 (for whoever, for whatever reason, gets it to level 5).
Personally I found the skill extremely useless. It’s so easy to travel around in this game, that it really does not make sense to use such a skill.
The Templar buff is a guild buff that lasts for an hour. At worst you’d have to hop around on to your templar every hour to give a buff that gives every 15 physical attack (no it does not scale).
Really, the only benefit of having templar, is to drop a guild tower in places atm.
As far as a rank 8 alt, it took me a weekish to get to 200 in the iCBT rates in the beginning. Assuming that it’s the same (or the scalings formula changes since they mentioned it was for iCBT), it’ll take me like 2-3 weeks to hit 280, and then 2-3 weeks to hit 280 on a non-Templar character.
I doubt there will be much of a loss if you plan on playing this game for quite awhile.

