...it's **way** off balance the way you have it implemented.

Far as I can tell, the only drawback to your Archmage Gauntlets compared to the Celestial is one single less base melee damage? Meanwhile, the Archmage give an innate +15 Aim, the ability to generate Focus on demand, and of course the +2 Max Focus. Since Focus raises the damage of Rend, that last one means melee Templars end up doing MORE damage with Rend, not less. On top of this, they also get a major damage boost to Arc Waves. Meanwhile, they're also getting all the absurd advantages that having 5 focus gives to everything else a Templar can do. (30 damage Ionic Storm anyone?)

Again, I love the idea of this, but if you're trying for any semblance of balance I'd suggest you drastically nerf the base damage on them. At least -3, as that would make them do 1 less than the vanilla Celestial once you factor in the extra focus effect on Rend. Realistically though, I'd consider dropping the damage on them by at least -5 ( down to 2-3 damage base) to make up for all the other benefits the extra Focus gives. Or maybe fully drop it to 1-1 damage, but shorten Meditations cooldown slightly? Really have them focus on being caster Templar instead of melee.

As currently implemented though, all these gauntlets do is make the Templar unquestionably better at everything...and Templars are already quite good as is. :)