Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric Build Guide - Early Game Cleric Builds (Including Multiclassing)

in the spalders gate 3 video I'm going to be showing you three early game cleric builds two of these are single class builds one is a multi-class build and I'll be going into why that is in this video I'm not going to go through and do a build for every subclass since there are seven domains of cleric but I do want to show you some early game ones that absolutely devastate so first up is six levels of Tempest cleric and what I really like about this build is it really allows you to focus on wisdom you're going to be casting spells most of the time to be able to crank wisdom you don't really have to focus too much about strength or dexterity you can use heavy armor if you want you can use any weapon you want early on in the game you might be using some weapon attacks until you get more spell slots once you gain call lightning this is really where things open up for this build that's at level five and because you can cast this every turn as long as you maintain concentration without using more spell slots you're gonna be able to use it as like your primary attack pretty much combat we've taken the war Caster feat at level four in order to give us advantage on concentration saving throws so that we can keep this up every possible turn and there are a few things I really love about this build because you can use heavy armor if you want and you know you have a shield because you have Shield proficiency as a cleric you're gonna be able to have fairly High Armor class even from the very early goings of the game which is going to allow you to avoid damage that's going to help keep your concentration up obviously because you're going to have less concentration saving throws to be made but it also makes enemies come up and attack you because you can position yourself like on the front lines if you want as a front line character enemies will come out to you they'll Miss quite often but when they do hit you you're gonna be able to retaliate with lightning or thunder damage as well every reaction once per round which is really really good in my opinion it's a decent amount of damage and you're going to get more out of that than you would a tax of opportunity because enemies don't normally run up to you to melee and then move out of the range and go attack something else does happen sometimes it's not very common but do enemies do come up and attack you and when they hit you you're going to be able to respond by feeling damage to them which is great and this build has a good amount of AOE damage between Thunder Wave between shatter between cold lightning there is a lot of AOE here allowing you to deal a lot of damage each turn and because of the channel Divinity ability of the Tempest cleric you can make sure that the does maximum damage twice every short rest because we're a level six tempest cleric you're going to gain that extra Channel Divinity charge at level six which is one of the reasons I really wanted to go up to level six and that's going to allow you to use that twice for short rest which means you can get maximum damage like in one fight twice that's huge with you know aoes that's going to allow you to just wipe out groups of enemies like regularly and then you can short rest between combats do it again on the next absolutely devastating and also a level 6 you gain Thunderbolt strike allowing you to push enemies backward when you hit them with thunder or lightning damage this isn't the most useful thing but sometimes enemies are positioned right near a cliff or something and you can knock them off by dealing damage to them which is great A lot of times you're just going to kill them outright but this is another reason to go to level six in my opinion moving forward with this build you could take five levels of Circle of land root in order to gain lightning bolt in order to give you another option for you know your spell casting that kind of does a very long straight line of lightning damage that would work well especially when you use the channel Divinity ability and that would still give you access to like a lot of spell slots that you could up past some of these Spells at so you'd still be very very strong in my opinion and you could take one level of something else like Fighter for instance in order to gain a fighting style like defense to give you an extra Armor class and second win or you could take monk in order to allow you to add your wisdom to your armor class when you're unarmored those are both really good options for this build as well and the next build I want to show you is six levels of light domain cleric I really like this build because like the Tempest cleric it's very offensive it allows you to focus more on fire whereas The Tempest cleric focused on like lightning and thunder light domain clerics have a huge focus on fire and you have a lot of Firebase spells and you're probably going to want to pick up Elemental Adept and take fire at some point of this build to help you come overcome fire resistance and immunities and also to make it so that you can't roll one on your damage rolls for your fire spells so your fire spells in general will deal more damage and because we go to a least level five here you're going to gain access to Fireball which is a fantastic AOE and at level six you gain an extra spell slot so you'll actually be able to throw three Fireballs before you have to Long rest giving you a lot of good AOE with this build and another thing I really love about this build is that level one you actually gain warning flare which allows you to impose disadvantage on an enemy that's going to hit you in combat once per turn and you can do this every turn so that means that you're going to be pretty tanky for spellcaster because it's pretty likely that is going to miss you if you put a disadvantage on them particularly during the early goings of the game and once you get to level six you can also use this on nearby allies should they be attacked and they're going to get hit so you're gonna be able to use this basically like every enemy turn prevent some damage to your party so it's really really good at mitigating damage your party's going to take so you have a lot of offensive Firepower with your fire spells but you also have this kind of defensive feature that you're going to trigger like every round once you get to level six and the channel Divinity of this domain allows you to do a radiant damage AOE that hits enemies that are in line of sight like if they're behind something it won't hit them but it does decent amount of damage although in my opinion falls off kind of later on in the game but it's still a decent one and it doesn't hit friendly Target so like if you're in the middle of a bunch of enemies and friendlies you don't have to worry about hitting your friend and I would take this build up to at least nine levels of light cleric in order to gain flame strike and Wall of fire and stuff like that that's going to give you even more fire spells at your disposal particularly a lot of damage if you have something like element we'll adapt as I mentioned before so you'd probably want to take it up there then you could multi-class with like three levels of something else in order to like pick up some Marshall things maybe like a monk or maybe like fighter or something like that and the last build I want to showcase is five levels of War domain cleric and one level of fighter and I would highly recommend that if you're gonna do this setup that you take fighter first and then five levels of War domain cleric that's going to give you proficiency with Constitution which is going to greatly benefit your concentration saving throws have a lot spells that use concentration so that would help you a lot to kind of reverse the order of classes and this is a really really devastating build that's like a proper hybrid in my opinion you can deal decent damage in melee or range and you can also cast devastating spells and because you have War domain your bonus action you can use to attack with a certain number of times it's three times at level one at level five it's gonna be four times so and a good reason to get to level five here so you can get that extra charge in between long rest you can attack as a bonus action if you attack your main action four times in combat but you also have heavy armor medium armor light armor proficiency Shield proficiency you have all weapon proficiency so you can use whatever you want highly recommend using a shield either like heavy armor medium armor with higher dexterity and a finesse weapon so that when you go into melee combat you are very very protected and you can use something like the spirit Guardian spell which is absolutely devastating that Cass and AOE around you that hits enemies when you move into enemies it damages them and then at the start of your turn it damages all enemies around you so you can tank you have very high armor class you can melee while enemies are sitting inside this and it's just gonna deal tons of damage to them like just stack your armor class sit there and deal damage to them every round into them attack them with your regular attacks and your bonus actions in between those hitting them it's very very strong in my opinion the only thing is that you have to maintain concentration on Spirit Guardians so taking fighter first helps with that give you a proficiency bonus to your concentration saving throws if you took something like War Caster that way that one more that allows you to really get in the middle of enemies and not have to worry as much about your concentration being broken because you are going to get hit and you're going to be attacked often if you're applying like a tanky character and that's okay as long as your concentration doesn't break but this also allows you to use a lot of other things like you can use Sanctuary to protect yourself if you need to you can use healing word to heal yourself as a bonus action if you want you can use guiding bolt to range down enemies or you can use inflict wounds if they get up close to you because you're gonna have high wisdom there's just a lot of things you can do you can use Second Wind to heal yourself even for a little bit which is nice you can keep less up very easily to keep bless on your group if you want to do that there is a lot of Versatility in this build and it's extremely deadly early on in the game moving forward to this build I would probably take like fighter up to level five in order to get you extra attack and then finish taking War domain up to like level seven to give you a few more spell slots that you can use some of these spells in and just deal even more damage so that wraps up our three early game builds for the cleric class we will have some proper builds coming we are going to be moving on to companion builds because I know a lot of people have been wondering about that we did one already but I want to get those done and we'll continue to mix them other guides and proper and bills as well as always if you have other tips for players that I forgot to mention please leave them in the comments and if you have questions leave them there as well and I will answer them as soon as I can [Music] [Music] thank you

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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 14 2023