War Domain Cleric

[Bru]

Thoughts on the War Domain Cleric?
Can it do better or similar of what a Fighter and Paladin already does?

[Super_Kawaii]

I found it plays quite similar to Paladin but more of a team buffer/tank. You can only extra melee attack using the channel divinity points which are limited. so it's not all that great as pure melee compared to those other classes. but makes a nice healer/tank hybrid without multiclassing

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

It's more 'bursty' since you can dump all your channel divinity charges in a single turn, and combine that with either a Sword Bard's flourishes or a martial class"s extra attack or Paladin's smite, but is less sustainable over time.

[Mike Garrison]

I've tried it, but overall if you just want to min/max it is not the best cleric class. Light and Life are stronger. But it's fine for RP. If you want to be a front-line tank, it's a good choice, because it gives you heavy armor.

[McBlaster]

Why not both? Multiclass 5 Fighter / 7 War Cleric, now you have an extra attack and 4 war priest charges for the bonus action attack. No 5th level Cleric spells but I only really miss mass cure wounds.

[Brian_the_Brute]

I does fill some of the roles, but not as well. Adding 1 level in WC for the extra attack pool and hit/miss modification ability when multi-classing is where I see the best benefit.

[Kamuizin]

Originally posted by Hex: Trigen:

Thoughts on the War Domain Cleric?
Can it do better or similar of what a Fighter and Paladin already does?

You can go 6/6 bard valor + war cleric, for full caster progression + extra attack, but limited to lvl 3 spell circle. Sounds ok to me, since you can just run around with spirit guardian active upcasted and make a defense based build.

You can also go a 7/5 war cleric + paladin or ranger build. Will hit 4th circle spells knows, but caster progression will stop at 5th spell circle avaliable, but you can get some fighting styles this way.

Well, i never liked war cleric much anyway, so this is all non tested coniectures.

[Bru]

Lovely, thx for the feedback everyone

[DDkiki]

great 1 lvl dip for 11 lvl fighter

[Panda]

Pure fighter is better considering that if you prefer 2handed - you will never use cleric’s special attack since it’s a bonus action and your 2 handed master and 8+ attacks WILL crit or the target will die, so your great weapon master is just better.

Pure cleric is S tier, but not the war one, if it has 2nd attack for reaching level 5-6 you could argue about other martial/semi martial classes, no 2nd attack means rogue’s issue.

Comparing war cleric to the light one - light debuff build no diff war cleric.
Comparing war cleric with a thunder one - thunder win, no concept of diff in terms of both damage and debuff.

BTW war cleric is ok as a support since it’s still a cleric, if you prefer to heal/buff with Volo’s ring it doesn’t really matter if you are a life cleric or not.