Is This Baldur's Gate 3's Unstoppable Party? 

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The fact you made Gale a Cleric of anything other then Mystra is hilarious to me, considering how down bad he is for her.

To say it in the words of Jocat "With how versitile and independently strong a cleric can be you could make up an entire party made of purely priests call it the A-men and bust down Tiamats door demanding her lunch money"

My guess is that Cleric is least played because you have Shadowheart and she is the one character that fits well with both good and bad playthrough. Hence she is the only character that was used in all my playthroughs.

When the church youth group decides they had enough.

The only reason Cleric isnt chosen in character creation as much is because people love having shadowheart in the party which fills the cleric roll for you.

Act 2 is harder in general yeah but since youll be fighting undead like 90% of the time having all the radiant damage from your clerics is probably gonna make it even easier XD

Ah yes, The A-Men have assembled, ready to bust down Tiamat's door and demand her lunch money.

going into act 2 with shadowheart as a light cleric with the blood of lathander made it so easy

I too wasn't hot on clerics, but I'm midway through act 3 and I can honestly say Shadowheart was the MVP of so many of those major fights lol. Cazador, Sarevok, Raphael...she straight up bodied so many of the supporting mobs and kept everyone buffed and alive.

I played a game of DND last year where one of my friends was a storm domain cleric, and by the time we hit level 7 or so, he was by far the most powerful, versatile member of our party. So i wasn't surprised by this at all!

I’m currently playing as a tempest cleric in a group play through with my friends (they’re a bard, a rogue, and a monk) and being able to heal them with a mass healing spell is very important. I wish people would try to be a team player more.

"So i gave back the boots to the duergar" Me who used those in my entire first run: *PAIN*

I was SO shocked to see not many playing clerics! They're probably my favorite class. I'm doing my first play as a light domain cleric woth Shadowheart (life domain), Gale, and Astarion (arcane trickster). Its been so fun having a team full of casters!

I was honestly surprised to see this was such a small channel, this is a super entertaining concept and very well made! Keep up the good work!!

Tip: clerics can start the command spell. You can use command: drop on the general on the helm to just pick up the sword and dip. It also had a pretty decent DC depending on your wisdom.

Really very good content for your first serious video. I had a similar experience to everyone else with how powerful Shadowheart was, respeced into Light domain with Blood of Lathander and Radiating Orbs, it was sick. My second run 3 out of the four characters were respeced to at least multiclass some amount of cleric. And as mentioned Tempest cleric/ Storm Sorcerer is also ridiculous. With everyone seemed to share a reaction, I am surprised there was not more all cleric chatter, way to be first!

Great video! I love seeing good Cleric gameplay. My only “gripe”, you seem to have made Gale a follower of Oghma instead of Mystra? Odd choice, that.

In D&D 3.5, Clerics and Druids were generally considered the most powerful classes overall due to their tremendous versatility, very big spell lists, and general high stats. They weren't the best at everything, but domains and domain spells helped make up for that. I'm not surprised Clerics are still potent in 5e, even though they aren't as powerful in BG3 comparatively as in 3.5. Thankee!

do you know that when using a revive scroll, you click twice : first to select the body to revive, second to select where you want it to be revived. so you could have revived gale. even in combat at the cost of an action and a scroll.

Looking forward to the entire playthrough. Thanks for your hard work thus far

Cleric is least played as main char, coz almost everybody have Shadowheart as cleric in party. Just switching her into life / light domain... thats better :) Also i like cleric a lot ... utility, heals, summons, dmg ...

I'm seriously surprised your such a small channel, this video was some great stuff 👍

My first ever DND class and my favorite character I ever played was a Life Domain Cleric. And yes; Clerics are monsters if they’re played correctly. Light Cleric, Tempest Cleric, War Cleric, Nature Cleric, and Life Cleric all come to mind in this game as being extremely op and Light/War/Tempest are probably the strongest. I haven’t played a Nature or knowledge cleric but my friend I game with went Nature Cleric and I can see the awesome abilities already. I have tried the other spellcasting classes, and Cleric is my second favorite (next to warlock) and I feel like is the strongest Caster. If they were better at talking to people they’d straight up be the best class in the game imo. So I love what you did in this video! Also really well done video, and I’m certain this channel will blow up with more vids like this!

Holy shit, it finally happened. One of your vids was recommended on my home page. Good stuff man, proud of how far you have come!

These videos are incredibly well made, clean editing

Getting Hellrider’s pride gauntlets from Zevlor has been the best magic item. I put that on a life cleric and I still use it all the way through act 3

your visible amazement of karlach jumping through a window just through camera movement made me bust out laughing. also, ive done act 1 probably five times and i never thought of using an ice arrow for myrinas cage. good stuff!

I’m currently doing my very first playthrough as a war cleric and I’m loving it! It’s sad, that it is the least played class. You have so much potential and every domain plays honestly really different from the last.

I had a playthrough with my TAV as a war priest to Tyr along side Lae'zel, Shadowheart, and Astarion. We blew through a LOT of enemies. I had a lot of fun.

Be pretty neat to see a build video on how you set up each cleric! This was great though, actually makes me want to make a team of clerics myself 😂

This is such a fun video! Well done!

Can't wait to see the next part!

This is a very interesting build for all companions, I want to try this thx for the video :3

Liked and Subbed!, This was my plan after completing my Multiplayer run through on stream. Looking forward to the next stream.

Good video. It kept me interested and I enjoyed it.

Looks like a fun run! Clerics rock. Lol all those spirit weapons and everyone in lawn mower (spirit guardians) mode! Nothing beats armored spell casters! Looking forward to your Act II adventures!

You need lava from the forge to have it work twice and check out the alchemist’s basement in the blighted village Tactician is also super easy don’t stress it’s not an overly punishing game

For an overpowered party, just do 4 party members with any decent class combo, and make room for 2 level of divination wizard for each of them. That Simple. But I agree, Clerics are S tier, and they should be played more.

great run! Really Interesting decission to go for

I had no idea that you could respec everyone. This is turning out to be a great party comp for me!

this came on in the background and i thought it was a video from someone with a few hundred thousand subscribers, i was surprised to see this only has 598 views, the video is very well made!

I always assumed a few reasons why Cleric was one of the least played classes: 1. Shadowheart is literally the FIRST companion you recruit in the game after the tutorial ship, a cleric. 2. clerics are spellcasters first and foremost, yes even the more martials ones like War and Tempest, because of that aside from the Gold Dwarf clerics they're not the toughest classes. 3. they're a wisdom class, meaning you'll have a hard time making charisma checks for dialouge 4. cleric, EVEN AFTER ALL THIS TIME, is seen widely as a "support" class. a healer, even with Life Cleric's after a few levels showing they're more than ah eal bot and more of a "guardian" for the team, most people see clerics as a backline that's just there to keep the team alive and do nothing else. all of this personally is reinforced by the stats showing which class is the most picked: Paladin. durable melee frontline which fits since the player character will ALWAYS be the one leading the party unless you take control of someone else charisma based character for dialouge checks some spellcasting to use, more as a swiss army knife of either melee damage spells or light heals/buffs takes of the strength and charisma rolls, meaning you can then take astarion, gale, and shadowheart for a clean, efficient, 4 man party through the whole game.

My first playthrough was a cleric caster and it was massively fun. It's my favourite caster class!

There's some mercenaries in the grymforge that you can convince to fight with you against Nere. One of the sorry buggers managed to shove Nere into the lava and I couldn't loot him or take his head. Had to reload and try again and I swear, he kept running right up to the edge of the lava pit for some reason. I literally had to use all of Karlach's turns constantly shoving him away from the damn pit.

Cleric has everything: Spells, Melee Prowess, Cool Looks, unique dialouge options depending on what god you serve. Whats not to like? Also I am now very keen on a second playthrough as a full Cleric Party. But Gale is getting Mystra! ;)

I really like the warcaster feat on my cleric, my con saving throws are through the roof! Don’t sleep on it!

Ah cleric my beloved. Light domain I love because it just fucking nukes everything

the legendary A-men party

I always play Cleric. It's my fav class. Gale should be a Cleric of Mystra though, that's how I re-roll him.

I rolled cleric first play through and was shocked when I heard it's the least played class. Cleric is a beast.

Clerics, Bards, Druids, and Paladins are top tier.

Clerics know every spell they learn for every level you can swap them out by clicking the spell book in the inventory whenever you want, I think there is also a hotkey to go straight to the spells 'K'

For my latest tactician playthrough I swapped Shadowheart from Trickery to life domain cleric with additional heals and resist buffs coming from 3 of her equipment pieces, it made encounters where you're swarmed that much more manageable.

I laughed so hard at "Shallag? we're going to go with shallag. it's "Sheh-Lay-Lee"

This type of run is on my list of things to try. Im also thinking a party of four druids would be awesome since around level 7 or so each druid can have three or four summons which means you would have a 20 person party lol thats my next run after i solo it on a rogue/ranger.

I had three quite different experiences with the cleric in my party. First campaign: Vanilla Shadowheart, trickstery domain. Missed all her shots, had a bunch of weird spells I didn't really make use of, but was useful for healing. Second campaign: No cleric in my party. It was managable but sometimes I lacked someone who could do a massive heal as a bonus action. Third campaign: Shadowheart again, but this time life domain and with optimized stats. She finally has reasonable % to hit and is even better at healing. Now that's what I'm talking about!

you can save the bard by knocking her out right before you long rest, another girl shows up and she dies

As a White-Mage main in FFXI for 3 years, I still to this day adore a single player RPG that allows me to be the Healer of the group that calls me their leader and not be punished for it. It let's me usually roleplay in a way that shows my importance and the protection of me in Battle mirroring the story of me a an important person, I kinda love that. Letting me also fuck people up and unleash holy wrath is a nova bonus tho lol

I am so stocked with the performance of this video, and I am glad that you are enjoying it! Thank you for watching and supporting the channel! Its pushing me to get act 2 out ASAP! Thank you all!

Glad you found clerics to be so awesome but I'm bored with them tried creating one bored I don't even bring shadowheart in my party

THE BLASTER: 1 storm sorcerer/11 tempest cleric (or 3/9 if you want metamagic). THE FIXER: 6 light cleric/6 divination wizard. Take the lucky feat. Master of the dice. THE CONTROLLER: 7 nature cleric/5 beastmaster ranger. Spike growth, plant growth, spider pet for web (or just go pure nature cleric). THE KNOW-IT-ALL: 9 knowledge cleric/3 lore bard. Take the actor feat and expertise in sleight of hand. Your face and your "rogue".

I’ve never seen shadowheart hit more in my life. Especially with guiding bolt

I think the reason the forge didn't work is because you didn't have the lava flowing again.

My main character is trickery cleric, the least played class with least played subclass. Its OP af. You get disguise self wich allows you to allways be disguised with no cost, or effort. Because pritty early in the game you can get a ring to get A Flat +4 ON EVERY FUCKING ROLL. On top of that you get blessing which is an aditional d4 on every check. And when you make the first level in rouge you will get a ton of proviciancys. You can steal everything and basicly have jedi powers... Its so insane

shoud have callem your party "the A-Men!"

A group of all Clerics? It’s the A-Men!

Your mileage may vary. I started this with my daughter multiplayer where we each run two characters. We made each origin character a cleric as well as our custom characters. We struggled in combats with larger numbers of opponents at lower levels after running out of spells, even with the unlimited cantrips. Tempest and Light clerics were fine with creature control, up until the spell slots were gone. Trickster clerics are only good for buffs, in my experience, up to the point they get hit and lose concentration. Still working though the game though, and we'll see how higher levels go.

Aaah yes. The Minotaurs of the underdark. Thas when i really learned the power of grease bottles in this game. They both didnt get one turn done, and i was just level 3 at the time.

My current party is lvl 3. I am a Light Cleric, Gale is Wiz 1 & Tempest Cleric 2, Wyll is Warlock 1 & Life Cleric 2 (and his next level will be Ancients Paladin) and Astarion is Rogue 1 & Ranger 2 (will be gloom stalker). It’s a pretty good mix so far :)

I think that thematically you could use Astarion - Trickery with Tymora Gale - Knowledge with Mystra (or Oghma if Gale is feeling a bit angry at Mystra) Karlach - War with Tempus Lae'zel - also war with Vlaakith, later either tempest with Talos or war with Tempus Shadowheart Trickery with Shar, later Life (or if modded Twilight) with Selune Wyll - Trickery with Asmodeus (if possible), later with Tymora or Oghma

To save Alfira you need to reload to a save before she visits the camp, go to her in the camp and knock her unconscious with non-lethal damage. Then a Dragonborn Bard named Quil will turn up and die in her place. If you cast "Protection from Evil and Good" and put on one of the Masks on the table you can get through to Ethel without fighting and seeing through the illusory traps.

dark urge is the canon protag, they just didn't communicate that too well.

make sure you get the bless anyone you heal ring from Volo when you first meet him. There is not a dialog option for trading but the trade icon shows up. at less than 100 gp it is well worth it

I played a Cleric on my first playthrough of Baldurs Gate 3, romanced Shadowheart on my second run, and then played as Shadowheart on my third run, Cleric is so good and imo one is required in every party.

I've heard that tempest clerics are weak before, so I went ahead to hack it out and honestly I think they might be one of the strongest clesic subclasses

... The Alfira incident made me play the "good guy path"

this is what i did also, i rebuilt them all with at least 1 lvl in cleric. the armor and extra heels were amazing.

Early BG3 no one wanted to play cleric because Shadoeheart is a mainstay in the majority of playthroughs. Now everyone realised Tempest and Light clerics are two of the best classes in the game.

A whole party with various spells, good healing and good CA. No wonder why it's strong.

0:12 MEEEEE I went with a Life Cleric of Ilmater right off the bat and the healing was impeccable *insert meme of Pacha from Emperors New Groove*

When Gale died in the lava you could've use a revive scroll to revive him in a different spot!

Clerics are so busted. I played a Wizard and dipped two of his levels into Tempest cleric just for funsies and it was maybe the best decisions I could’ve made. Also my favorite build in the game is easily 5 levels War cleric, 5 levels Paladin, and the last two levels are flexible

Ah yes the experience of playing dark urge and thinking Alfira is going to join you 😢

I remember doing something like this when I saw the stats that cleric was the least played class. I did a run with Main character gith, 6 tempest cleric/6 storm sorcerer, Shadowheart 12 life cleric, wyll 6 tempest cleric/ 6 storm sorcerer and karlach (Bae) 9 light cleric, 3 paladin. I focused my main on thunder damage, so even in act 1 with the brand of the absolute and the absolute ring with the thunder hammer from the inn I was doing pretty consistent thunder dmg. In act 2 you get the thunder cape, reverb condition boots and thunder trident from act 3 genie its a strong front liner, conditions etc. Then wyll was the classic lightning god, electrifying water and doing lightning dmg. Karlach had that really OP stacking lighting orbs on enemies and dispelling darkness along with her racial smites and supplemental heals she was a boss. Light cleric can solo act 2 with all those shades and stealth types and its not even close, Shadowheart barely had any healing to do. Everyone rocking medium or above armor they worked very well together and it made sense to just focus on on type of damage for each of them. Thunder for main, lightning for wyll, radiant for karlach and healbot for shadowheart. The full cleric run was pretty easy even on tactician IMO.

4 Gloomstalkers with Alert.

Good stuff. I only have 2 clerics in my party - war and light domains. Oh - the pronunciation of shillelagh is shuh-ay-luh

My first full play through I was a dwarf life domain cleric lol

Spirit guard with sanctuary and then your spirit weapons. No one can target your characters 😂

Oh man... you gotta re-lava the forge to make a new item lol

My party consists of gale necro wizard, shadowheart light cleric, astarion storm cleric and myself as the gloomstalker ranger… they all have raise dead and its been awhile since anyone has been downed or lost hp.. loads of fun, i have astarion as a storm sorc cleric so he can nullify AoE spells to the party.. love the synergy when a single splash of water covers a room just to electrocute everyone in it, then freeze it soon after.. and then we unleash the zombie hordes while everything is prone 😆

Clerics are fun to throw into enemies while they have spirit guardians on 😌

I hope you enjoy this video! So far this has been one of my most complex videos and I'm really happy with the outcome! Onwards and upwards. On another note, what do you think is the strongest Class?

Spirit guardians was one of the most op spells on Shadowheart - especially with combination with dash boots.

Something something people don’t like healing so wizards of the coast kept buffing clerics and now they’re one of the most overpowered classes in the game, and BG3 reflects that.

The game didn’t glitch, you forgot to turn on the lava again, it is now needed to forge.

Cleric is indeed sneakingly overpowered, also when multiclassing.

This man said "Tactics??? Having 4 clerics IS the tactic!!"

There's actually a way to even the odds against nere and I only found it in my 5th playthrough. I fucking LOVE this game

I played 2 clerics in BG3 so far and there will be a couple more. Every domain is interesting. :)