war domain is broken (bad)

[PPeach]

the war domain cleric will auto use it's charges of bonus action attack before using fighter extra attack and before using the bonus action attack triggered from critical hits or kills using great weapon master. it's the most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing in this game and needs to be removed or reworked. the war priest charges should 1) refill all on long rest not 1 each long rest (as per the dnd 5e rules, it's just an unnecessary nerf to an already bad cleric domain). 2) should never look to use war priest charge bonus actions if there's literally any other option for attacking (since i can only use one charge per long rest and only ever accumulate wisdom mod + 1 charges) 3) have an option in the (L) tab for reactions and ♥♥♥♥. there is no setting to disable it and i'm not seeing clear prompts about when it's about to use my war priest charges.

[dolby]

no one plays clerics anyway so it doesn't matter/ no clue why...

everyone wants to be a paladin or a Sorcerer, probably cos they are that strong...

[Metallicus]

People play clerics? 🤔

[Quillithe]

Tempest clerics are pretty cool.

But yeah that doesn't sound like it's working right

[Jondar Korric]

it's called go to your reaction tab and tick mark the little Ask box.

[PPeach]

Originally posted by Jondar Korric:

it's called go to your reaction tab and tick mark the little Ask box.

it's called read the the fact that i said there isn't anything in reactions tab. my fighter cleric had opportunity attack and nothing else to check the box for permission. thanks for your very insightful help tho chump

[PPeach]

Originally posted by Quillithe:

Tempest clerics are pretty cool.

But yeah that doesn't sound like it's working right

Tempest cleric is something i haven't looked into much, i'll have to check it out :)

[PPeach]

Originally posted by Metallicus:

People play clerics? 🤔

yeah fun fact not everyone just googles "what's the best subclass for bg3"

[PPeach]

Originally posted by dolby:

no one plays clerics anyway so it doesn't matter/ no clue why...

everyone wants to be a paladin or a Sorcerer, probably cos they are that strong...

it should matter that the classes work as intended lol, even if they aren't what's meta in a singleplayer game lol

[Kreddi]

I'll bump this. My fighter with a dip in War Domain Cleric keeps wasting the 3 charges when I don't want him to.

[Non-binary Tiddies]

I noticed this last night on a multiclass build I was testing for Shadowheart. I bypassed it by using the bonus action for polearm master and then did my extra attack afterwards. You can see if it's the war cleric bonus action or the extra attack action by hovering over your melee/ranged attack button on the action ui.

[dolby]

Originally posted by PPeach:

Originally posted by dolby:

no one plays clerics anyway so it doesn't matter/ no clue why...

everyone wants to be a paladin or a Sorcerer, probably cos they are that strong...

it should matter that the classes work as intended lol, even if they aren't what's meta in a singleplayer game lol

yeah, it's wonky like lots of stuff in the game...

anyway just wanted to hint that there is room for some cleric love. Cos most don't play them.. so buffing some clerics could go along way having extra attack at level 6 (like
bard)would go along way or some other melee buff that would help them on frontline in heavy fighting where cleric belongs in my opinion at least..

but i would rebalance everything anyway for a video game from ground up, so...:)

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by PPeach:

Originally posted by Metallicus:

People play clerics? 🤔

yeah fun fact not everyone just googles "what's the best subclass for bg3"

Honestly they don't get played much just because clerics don't fit the usual main character fantasy as much. They're more like the sidekick or advisor in a lot of fantasy stories.

The only thing that's a little awkward is how they feel like they should be decent in melee but not getting a second attack leaves them a bit behind even warlocks and bards.

Except war cleric if it were working right.

As a note I haven't actually tried tempest cleric out either but I realized that at lvl 5 maximizing damage on thunder spells gives them a 40 damage enemy-only thunder aoe spell (save for half) which can just let you blast a lot of enemies at that level out of existence.

[Jaka]

For some time I used the mark target skill (if that's the name) that I got from some equipment in act 1. But after replacing it for something much better it got annoying pretty quick, so most of the time I simply wasted the charges. Only in more difficult fights where it really mattered I used jump to wast the bonus action to keep my charges. But that was really rare.

Pretty annoying, I agree.

There are a few things still very wrong like sanctuary for example. Don't know if it is intended but with my druid (11)/cleric (1) I cast Moonbeam at highes lvl avaliable and then sanctuary. Its like a cheat code because you don't lose sanctuary after moving your Moonbeam. I could literally solo every fight (tactician) without minmaxing or using best in solt equipment. Actually I could have run around naked and it would not have mattered. It's not insane dmg but your are pretty much invincible for 10 turns at a time. Mostly thats enough and even if not, you only need to hide for 1 turn before being able to cast sanctuary again.

[dolby]

Originally posted by Quillithe:

Originally posted by PPeach:

yeah fun fact not everyone just googles "what's the best subclass for bg3"

Honestly they don't get played much just because clerics don't fit the usual main character fantasy as much..

i would think the reason they don't get played much is cos paladins are more popular from all sorts of lore... and they both fit the divine knights idea... it kinda the same problem as sorcerer and wizard.

[Umbral Priestess]

Originally posted by dolby:

no one plays clerics anyway so it doesn't matter/ no clue why...

everyone wants to be a paladin or a Sorcerer, probably cos they are that strong...

It's also because no other companions fill those roles. and shadowheart is the first character you get when you get off the ship. so no one sees the point in having 2 clerics.

Paladin is the exception but you have to more or less give 2 other members to get her.