Cleric MC

[Bill Brace]

I'm not very familiar with the kits. What non evil God/kit combo is best for a high damage dealing melee cleric. Thanks

[RealDealBreaker]

Thread has overlooked nature cleric as a viable weapon based cleric. Take shillelagh and hit people with your pimp stick and profit. Nature cleric gets divine strike (like tempest and war, just a different damage type) and heavy armor. With shillelagh you only need to invest in wisdom to make your melee attacks work. Sure it might not match the sword wielding image that some are looking for in their melee cleric, but it is certainly effective. Not as good in my opinion as tempest, but it is less MAD (multiple attribute dependant).

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

Thread has overlooked nature cleric as a viable weapon based cleric. Take shillelagh and hit people with your pimp stick and profit. Nature cleric gets divine strike (like tempest and war, just a different damage type) and heavy armor. With shillelagh you only need to invest in wisdom to make your melee attacks work. Sure it might not match the sword wielding image that some are looking for in their melee cleric, but it is certainly effective. Not as good in my opinion as tempest, but it is less MAD (multiple attribute dependant).

I've never met anyone that would create a 'nature cleric' over a druid.

[RealDealBreaker]

Originally posted by pandariuskairos:

Originally posted by RealDealBreaker:

Thread has overlooked nature cleric as a viable weapon based cleric. Take shillelagh and hit people with your pimp stick and profit. Nature cleric gets divine strike (like tempest and war, just a different damage type) and heavy armor. With shillelagh you only need to invest in wisdom to make your melee attacks work. Sure it might not match the sword wielding image that some are looking for in their melee cleric, but it is certainly effective. Not as good in my opinion as tempest, but it is less MAD (multiple attribute dependant).

I've never met anyone that would create a 'nature cleric' over a druid.

I've made one. Was for a character concept that had the character coming from a small woodland village that had regular incursions from undead. The counter undead role of clerics (through turn undead) fit that better than things like wildshaping. Certainly could have gone druid or grave cleric, but I wanted to try nature cleric and found it fun.

Now if I were purely building a min/maxed melee cleric without any regard to roleplaying then I would almost certainly go tempest.