Shadowheart missing a lot of melee and spells. How to respec her?

[Anthea Speedstar]

I'm currently at lvl4 in the game and I'm finding that Shadowheart just really isn't pulling her weight in the game. She seems to miss a lot of her shots regardless of whatever I choose, spells and melee. I know that you can respec a character and pretty much make them new again.

I've been curious about the light domain to make her more spell orientated but wonder if anyone has advice on stat distribution as well as what to specialise in at lvl4 I think? I was wondering if multiclassing would be useful for her or not. DnD is still very new to me. I'm trying not to make her a Tempest and using a lot of lightning just cause it's the really popular build right now. Want to try and keep her quite holy-like hence the Light domain. But please do let me know of your thoughts and suggestions. Thanks.

[Fast&Furious11:AllCarsGo2Heaven]

Some fights are just heavily against you. I can min max, equip my party well and heavy buff them with my Bard/Cleric and enemies still be getting crits and shots from disadvantage levels of the field. Doesn’t make sense.

I know it’s a numbers game but the rolls in fights seem to favor the enemies that already out number you vs your team just trying to connect with attacks.

I don’t use her anymore (for now) but cleric/bard works very well for utility, manipulation, and heals if you don’t have another support type.

This video sounded interesting regarding having her hit more often but it’s heavy into Ranger.

https://youtu.be/97qcZedemAM

As for respec. You’ll knock out a nearby underground dungeon, release an undead person and next time you long rest he should show up in camp and offer services for respec; costs 100gold each time.

[stereoma]

If you're having her use firebolt, she's likely using that INT for that spell and not her WIS. Her INT is only a 10.

[sevensided]

Tempest cleric. 16 wisdom (because I assume you're giving auntie ethel's hair to your main character), 16 con, 14 dex, whatever on everything else. Take warcaster at level 4. +2 wisdom every other ASI. Heavy armor, shield, eventually mel's first staff. Make her a mage tank. Obliterate everything with AOE thunder/lightning spells.