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excluding the bit when you try to "sing" the vid was fucking lit, one of my favorite so far (again, excluding the song, that was terrible as always, I want to cry blood)
Lvl 10 cleric: Yo, god. Can I have my grandma back? God: No. Lvl 20 cleric: Yo, god. Can Lvl 10 cleric have their grandma back? God: Sure, lvl 20 cleric! Whatever you want!
Bard Bias. Paladins should fuck more. Rogues keep stealing my strings. I need to help clerics fuck more. Why are people mad I fucked the dragon? It's not killing us anymore.
“Why are clerics so EVIL?!” Because evil gods have evil clerics too, and because older editions had rebuke undead for evil clerics instead of turning them.
@@SwordFighterDoggo It made them basically freeze in terror of you. And if your cleric level was at least twice their hit dice (which at best was very rare) instead you permanently gained control of them. There was a cap on how many could be controlled.
Zealot Barbarian: I'm gonna solo the dungeon. Cleric: You're gonna get yourself killed, idiot. Zealot Barbarian: So what? You can bring me back to life for free.
That also means he has improved a lot, since he immediately became an oathbreaker the moment he swore his "good content and quality videos" oath as a Paladin.
But you get the nature of said trap(s) as well? That's actually surprisingly useful for deducing where they are, I mean if they just all started to glow that'd be a LITTLE much for a 2nd level spell
"OOOOOOOOOOH GRANDMA'S BACK!!!" "Nyuck nyuck nyuck... After countless years, I am free from the shackles of death! Damnation and eternal torment bind me no longer... TIME TO CONQUER... EOARTHF!" "Riiiiiiight... Grandma was the campaign villain..."
I once had my party do a filler quest where they met the "spectre chasers," a group of clerics in brown leather armor who's names are embroidered on their chests and their channel divinity is flavored like a lazer, and helped them go around banishing various undead spirits and stuff Who you gonna call?
It amuses me whenever I join a campaign with a neutral or good aligned cleric, since I always pick Inflict Wounds and Animate Dead. The reaction to my excuse, "If my God didn't want me to use it, I wouldn't have access it.", is usually hilarious.
@@lorekeeper685 That's one such reaction. I have, at times, been downgraded from good to neutral or neutral to evil. Just by having those two spells prepped.
@@theblackcoatedman6794 saying inflict wounds is evil is like saying any damaging spells are evil. Also, the bit about animate dead isn't that good won't use it, but that evil will commonly use it.
@@TheCinderfang I don't consider it evil. Sometimes my character is just pragmatic. But some DMs will consider it Evil. I don't argue with them. It's their world. I shrug and move on.
@gaura cappelletti Yeah his stats were wonky and not that great since its charisma and intellect casting. But it was FUN to use warlock slots for arcane trickster spells. My Tiefling really just wanted to help people and heal. But being a cleric was too serious for him. So I thought Celestial Warlock was a nice compromise.
That's the secret behind most game design. If you don't give players some compelling incentive to play the designated healer you can't complain when 95% of the player base abandons the class 5 seconds after the first boss monster shouts "Focus fire the healer!" to all his minions. They're OP so that even novice players can survive a few big hits long enough to keep the party alive, and they have more options so that cleric players don't get the "Oh, are you just gonna keep casting that one spell over and over?" complaints that warlocks get.
its so true the only thing i didn't like about the cleric was they never had the option to like ya know at late game TURN INTO A DRAGON ....arcane domain fixed that shit right up XD
@@flarenite1004 Nowadays most of them sound like regular pop songs and the slow ones use things like pianos, violins and such. If you're interested i recomend "Em Teus Braços - Laura Souguellis" and "A Casa é Sua - Casa Worship"
Fun fact: the Tempest Cleric only has one lightning ability, and that's call lightning. Everything else is Thunder damage and i feel cheated! Edit: over time i've come to terms with the spell list. Call Lighting is a cool ass spell, and you have some lighting damage via your domain abilities (even if it's not a lot.) I still feel like an errata should change Ice Storm to Storm Sphere, beucase Storme Sphere cam out later, and i feel like it fits the subclass WAY better! Lighting Bolt still be cool though.
@@darienb1127 the best way in my opinion is to kinda do a power build and after 2 lvls of cleric multiclass into storm sorcerer. kinda feels like cheating but is the only way you will feel like a real lightning slinging cleric
When you play a forge cleric, constantly miss on attack roll spells and you're about to bin the whole thing. Then, you crit on a 3rd level inflict wounds and roll roughly 40 some odd damage. Now, I always imagine my inflict wounds as red electricity sparking around my cleric's hand. So what happened next was the moment I dealt almost a hundred damage and FRIED this warlord we were fighting. Barbarian had been in a slugfest with the guy for several rounds and I just taze the guy to death. Favorite moment for my holy boi. owo
In my first campaign, my forge cleric dodges a giant frost worm that tried to surprise swallow me(i have Alert), we roll initiative, worm goes first and proceeds to eat me whole, after some of my party goes , i ask my DM how long is the worm, he says around 100 ft, my cleric goes "Fuck this shit" and i cast wall of fire inside of it, right on top of me. It wreaths around in pain and spits me out, i rolled near max for the damage and with all of the damage my party was doing we killed it in two rounds.
Every Sunday at 7am. On the Church in Sector 5. There may or may not be a flower girl there tending to said flowers. Also, look us up by the sound of OMINOUS LATIN CHANTING. #theonewingedangel #sephiroth #thepromisedland
I'm currently playing as a Mountain Dwarf Cleric with Life Domain. Because of his race, he's proficient in Heavy Armor and with Warhammers. So because of a fluke that gave him a ton of gold after an earlier quest, he's got plate armor, a Warhammer in his right hand, and a shield in his left hand with his holy symbol emblazoned upon it, making it his Holy Focus. His Strength and Constitution are 20, and his Wisdom is 18 (I got insanely lucky on my rolls, but my Dex and Int is lower). His total AC is now 20 at level 3. In the last encounter I had, he was surrounded in a circle by 8 cultists, and he killed every single one of them, somehow only taking 1 point of damage (out of his maximum 33 HP) ULFGAR FROSTBEARD IS THE HEALING TANK OF THE PARTY.
I mean, the nice thing is that devine intervention states that the DM always decides the nature of the intervention, meaning he can bind it (within reason) to not be to overpowered. Also the fact that you can use it a maximum of every 7 days, means you still have to think about when to use it. So although it is very powerful, it might not be as overpowered as you think it to be (all depends on how game breaking the DM wants it to be)
@@PlantOutofPot I think the fact it's once a week upon success is a reasonable drawback to the nature of something so powerful, without the DM trying to twist or limit it like a casting of _Wish_ .
I rewatch this video time to time literally just to listen to the song in the beginning. I love the addition of music into these videos. Others can say what they want they make me smile and laugh every time :D
I just imagine the random passerbys or drivers in the distance, just seeing this guy in a red and white robe dancing with a book, presumably a bible. *wtf*
“The cool ones are the ones that are less normal” See, I’m sitting here with the complete opposite perspective - all of my players only ever want to use the wackiest most non-standard stuff. Am I the only one who appreciates the classics? Don’t get me wrong, breaking from tropes is good to do sometimes, but when being special or different defines your entire goal in character design you miss out on what makes those fantasies so engaging and enduringly popular in the first place. So just like human fighters can be way cooler than players think, so can a classic lawful-good life cleric. Just make sure to give them a proper character on top of it.
Sure, the different characters can be fun. You know what I like? Imitating my favorite scenes from movies. You know what one of those scenes is? Aragorn vs pretty much the entire Orc nation in Fellowship. Viggo had this Zen look on his face as he faced down about fifty Orcs. Yeah...sometimes the cool Anime scene or the great movie FX are cool but sometimes you just want to hit things with other things.
bruh warcaster is great. Even compensates a bit for not having Con saving throws prof. Fun fact if one knows the campaign is never gonna get to level 20 one can start as Fighter 1 and eventually have both Con saving prof. and Warcaster.
Me suggesting a Tempest Cleric take Magic Initiate for Booming Blade, Lightning Lure and Find Familiar: Wait, so you're not supposed to be dealing 99d8 Thunder damage with your weapon every turn?
I started playing DnD at the start of this year and got shown your videos. First class I played was Cleric and since then I've been waiting for this video.
Beginner Players: Ew a healer that's boring The Cult of Cleric players: HAHAHAHAHAHA FOOLS PREPARE FOR THE WRATH OF GOD BABY HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Edit: Oh I didn't realize how many likes this comment got uuuuhhhh thank you my fellow Strangers and remember to pray to god so you can summon our best friend Giant Meteor.
Now where does this amazing journey through the classes go now since we have done all the base classes in the PH. Can’t wait to see what comes next. Keep up the awesome work.
How to play cleric: Keep a mental note of how many spells you can prepare per day. Whenever you need to cast a spell, just petend that you totally prepared the spell beforehand. As long as the number of different spells you cast in a single day doesn't exceed the numer of spells you can prepare, the DM will be none the wiser.
I played a cleric as my first character and oh boy what a fun introduction to the game, being told I done heal enough. To which I replied "bitch I worship Thor not ObamaCare"
How to play cleric: Step 1: play forge domain Step 2: PLAY FORGE DOMAIN Stpe 3: *PLAY FORGE DOMAIN* Ok let's break it down. This is ONLY lvl 6 bonuses: +2 AC, auto hit 2d8 damage spell (with a duration), +1d6-3d6 damage (depending on spell slots), make literally anything in a hour (aslong as the material costs are less than 100gold), and resistance to fire damage. Combine that with a warforged you can have between 22-26 AC (depending on equipment) and if you take the sheild spell you can reach 30 AC with some enchanted gear. With a great axe you can do 5d6 damage with a lvl 3 spell slot (combine with elemental adept feat and 18/20 str for best results) AND YOU CAN HEAL. YOU WILL NEVER DIE I PROMISE. Get that fucking barbarian and fighter shit out of here
Cleric spells work like this: -You know all the cleric spells -Whenever you take a long rest you can pick a number of spells equal to your wisdom modifier plus your level -The spells you picked are the only spells you can cast till you take another long rest So, why is that really hard to understand you just have to pick a set number of spells every time you take a long rest, and only cast those spells till you take another long rest?
For example your an 8th level cleric you have a 20 in wisdom, so your wisdom modifier is 5. The number of spells you can cast per day then is 5+8=13 with the 5 being your wisdom modifier and the 8 being your characters level; so, choose 13 spells you want to use, and only use those spells. That isn't very hard if you ask me in fact its super easy since unlike the wizard you know all of your spells right off the bat so you just need to look and see I can use spells up to X level so I can choose any spells of X level from the whole cleric spell list so just have a list of every single cleric spell and boom
Zeter Zero Wizards have a more complicated and “newb unfriendly” design than Clerics when it comes to spells. Wizards have to pick their spells as they level to add to their spell book, then prepare their spells from their book whenever they long rest. A Cleric who makes a “bad choice” of a spell should be able to realize it fairly quickly and change it when next they long rest. If a new Wizard picks a “bad spell” then hey, guess who’ll always have Ray of Sickness in their spell book. Causing them to potentially lose out on more universal picks such as Mage Armor or Shield(or sacrifice higher level spell acquisitions to add those). In general, Clerics(and other strict “preparers”) are probably the most newb friendly because of that very feature. Every class with spell casting has to pick spells at some point. Clerics are the most forgiving about it and have some of the least spells to choose from(at least compared to other full casters).
@@sanddry738 true strike only has 1 use. A high level spell that uses a spell attack. That is the only instance it's worth being used. Not even then though is it worth being known.
@@sanddry738 there are some VERY niche scenarios where truestrike could be useful and some DMs could use encounters/rules that make advantage much harder to get. Find traps has no use that I've ever seen.
What a coincidence, I woke up to a notif for this the very day I’m making my first character, a cleric. This must be a gift from the gods themselves! Also, love your dance moves. Truly the best I’ve seen. Addition: You know what? Does my school dnd group *really* need this cleric?? Guess I’m gonna perish.
It has slow correct? Or is it haste? I like it a lot, but it's really Lawful Neutral. Just like oath of Conquest is Lawful evil. But a great domain nevertheless!
@@christofferhougaard that's probably by design. Order domain was intended to represent the Azorius Senate Guild which in that setting is hands down the most LAWFUL neutral "check out how far I managed to wedge this stick up my own ass," organization in the world.
Something I recently realized: every single Cleric spell has a verbal component. A single casting of Silence on them or gagging them suddenly renders their spells useless. I almost wonder if they did it for flavor of needing to speak holy hymns kinda like how Miracles work in Dark Souls. Regardless, just thought I'd share weird discoveries I found
Furiosa No, that’s the Monk. But if you multiclassed into both, you truly would have the power of God and anime on your side (oh yeah a Barbarian would probably work too)
I'd actually recommend a cleric for new players wanting to try a caster, for the following reasons: Medium armor and shields Simple weapons Decent HP Doesn't get stuck with bad spell choices Doesn't need to futz around with a spellbook Druids have to manage Wild Shape, which can be a nightmare for inexperienced players/DMs. Wizards have the largest spell list, and players might find needing to choose spells for their spellbook _and_ choose spells to prepare to be a bit too much. Sorcerers can get stuck with bad spells, although a lenient DM might let you pick an entirely new set if you're not happy with what you have. Ditto for bards. Basically it comes down to a lot of the other full caster classes being a lot more squishy and having other features that make them get a lot more complicated. Warlock is an interesting one, and I don't think it really qualifies as a caster in the same way as other caster classes. Honestly, the warlock feels like someone built a caster class using the martial class guidelines. Might have something to do with being a short rest class, as most martials are.
There was an errata. If you look at the newest printing (the special edition cover printing has this errata for reference) they did add spear as it was supposed to be there the entire time!
@@jemm113 OH THANK THE GODS YOU SAID THAT! I didn't have the alternative cover phb with me to Amsterdam! Do when my spesr wielding cleric/warlock idea flung itself into my head yesterday, I thought it was gonna be a tought one to create but nevermind that!
@@christofferhougaard Your standard knowledge cleric Kalashtar with the Courtier background. Origially a sorcerer, but my gm let be switch. Basically, it's thematically meant to be not religious. My character is a "channeller" an idea i had. Channellers: gain magic by connecting directly to a strand of the weave through inner meditation and soul searching. Basically, anyone can connect to the weave, but you must understand that thread inside and out, as well as how it connects to you. Since it's rare people can actually make this connection, some make it half way, giving them the class features but no magic. They gain magic through using the body parts of magic creatures as material components. It just lets me use a bunch of cool materials for my spells. (yes, I based this off dark magic from the dragon prince)
@@solahaze8948 I have no idea what dragon prince is but that sounds fucking dope! Would you sue me if I borrowed some of that? Cause it's fucking awesome! Thanks for the info. ^^
My first ever D&D character was a Light Cleric, and I started at level 3 😂 it was one of the most daunting tasks. 2 years later and I still take forever to decide my spells after every long rest haha
Hey Jacob, I recently realized how your rating of difficulty for each class aligns with the fact of how much of the player's handbook you need to know or at least look into for that class. While every character needs to look up their race, class and background and how combat works, spellcasters need the entire chapter of magic in addition to that. And while classes that only get non-preparation spellcasting don't need detailed knowledge of all spells of their class, druids, wizards and clerics, technically need to know all their spells. However, clerics and druids, in contrast to wizards, _also_ require appendix B for the gods / D for all the beasts they might turn into. Among the non-spellcasters, on the other hand, who already need way less of the book the one class that requires the least amount of chapters is in fact the monk who, unlike any other class, doesn't even need to comprehend the armor/weapons section. I found this very interesting. I don't want to start a discussion or anything, though, it's just supposed to be a neat little sidenote that happened to align with what you said. A truly epic ending to a series of videos that I have watched way too often by now because I *really* enjoy your kind of humour.
Almost always DM but when I get a chance to play a character, it's cleric. Love getting the 'ha ha healer' jibes at level 1 then blowing my fellow players minds with the shitton of stuff clerics can pull off.
My first character ever was a tempest cleric and he’s still the most fun Subclass I’ve played. I’m really glad my intro to dnd was with a cleric - they’re super versatile and can be easily played as a spellcaster, fighter, or support character depending on what you want to do. If you wanna play support? Clerics can do that. Hate swinging a sword? Be a caster, then. They’re so versatile that first time players can play the class however they want and the mechanics will support them.
Did Jacob forget Resurrection can't bring back people who died of old age? Idk maybe his grandma was an old lady warlord who got swallowed by a tarrasque while single handedly fighting off a purple worm and an army of undead. She sounds pretty cool actually.
