Things to note for tank builds: Turn karmaric dice off. KD turns this build from a tanky monster into a crit fisher in the worst kind of ways. Each miss increases the chances of you being hit, the only way to be hit being a crit.
@@cthulhuwu_ The way the armor is supposed to work - though I don't know any way to verify it - is it removes the critical hit altogether. A critical hit means not only more damage but it means that on a roll of 20 you hit NO MATTER WHAT the target's AC is. With critical removed that "autohit" effect should also be gone meaning there would be not way to actually hit if your AC is high enough and the maluses large enough.
Something to keep in mind for honor mode: enemies remove 2 stacks of radiating orb every time they attack, whether they hit or miss. Paired with the -1 per turn, an enemy with extra attacks can remove at minimum 5 stacks of radiating orb per turn. Additionally, I believe larian added a hard cap of radiating orb stacks. 10 stacks.
@@adamskeans2515 I don’t think so, since reverberation already gets cleared every time it hits 5 stacks. I believe this was a fix to radiant orb because it could stack infinitely otherwise. And it was causing game crashes once it reached about 30+ stacks.
@@adamskeans2515 never really was too big of a deal. It’s just that ROBs in honor mode can’t be stacked and abused like they could in non-honor mode. Still a good build though.
Some already mentioned it, but I can't recommend this combo enough: adding Boots of Stormy Clamour and Adamantite Shield make this build ridiculous. The Reverberation, stacks quickly because Radiant Orb is a condition too. I deliberately run around initiating opportunity attacks, because they extremely likely miss, adding Reeling (condition!) from the shield. Creatures receive thunder damage and likely go prone (condition too!) when having 5 stacks of reverberation - all this quickly spirals into an insane amount of damage and prone enemies for your party members to deal with. Combine with the Cull the Weak illithid power and the AoE damage becomes absolutely ridiculous(ly fun). A weapon like Intransigent Warhammer is insane in AoE situations and undervalued: you are near enemies anyway and procs on any kill. Lastly, just use a bow as a stat stick. Like one that adds initiative.
Seconded! This plus the gloves of belligerent skies makes stacking extra reverberation extremely easy. Its wild just how much extremely good gear you can get for this build as early as the creche & the underdark
Tip: you can pair the ring that activates evry turn healing you for 1-4 and the ring that gives bless when you heal to get a permanent bless buff whit no concentration,and to add a bit of spice combine them whit the cloak that gives blur evry turn
I might be wrong but I think you’re thinking of the statue that gives perma bless. I know there’s a ring that lets you bless people when you heal them. Does regen from equipment proc thus making it perma-bless? Sounds really good if you’re not using the ring on your dedicated healer.
Fantastic. I used most of this at one time on Shadowheart, but I kept messing it up because I didn't really understand the enormous advantage the orbs gave her and the party - so I always put her in Adamantine armor, and sometimes swapped out one of the rings. Since I now starting a Tactial run with a Light Cleric - I guess I'll get first hand experience.
Everybody goes with the Callous Glow Ring, but the Ring of Mental Inhibition (Act 2, near the Shadowed Battlefield waypoint) actually synergizes better in my experience. It inflicts Mental Fatigue on an enemy's failed Saving Throw (Spirit Guardians aura, Holy Lance Helm, Reverb's Prone, and spell attacks). MF is -1 INT/WIS/CHA, stack 7 max, 5 or more pops 1d4 Psychic and resets fatigue. Now, enemies have up to -10 to attack (Holy Lance Helm), up to -5 in STR/DEX/CON saves (Reverb Prone), up to -7 INT/WIS/CHA saves (all spellcasters, plus Spirit Guardians), all the while taking damage. I provoke Opportunity Attacks as much as I possibly can. They miss, take Radiant from HLH (which they fail thanks to RoMI). Damage pops the Shockwave, which pops the Boots Reverb, which knocks half of them Prone as it stacks out, and the Thunderskin Cloak puts Dazed on the other half. I tanked all of Shadowheart's final story battle with her frontline and 3 people in the back lazily helping her out.
Considering there's a cap of 10 stacks for most if not all status effects, I do think the Blood of Lathander is better than the Sacred Star. Primarily because the BoL is its own light source which procs the rings this build has without needing to cast Light or Daylight, plus this light also blinds undead near you. And the 1/day Sunbeam cast is just better than not having it
blood doesnt deal radiant damage, first off second, other than the ray, it's just a mace if youre going down enough to rely on the res, you should probably play a simpler game the staver-of-skulls light hammer for example is much better in this set up, since it is self-lighted, does radiant, and can be dual-wielded if thats your thing we're going for cheese with this build, not stand and fight tactics serious-gamer-mode. this is a stupid build for the fun of being stupid. embrace the stupid, stupid.
At that point just go for the Nyrulna: all the same perks as blood of lathander, but more, with added thunder damage and throwing capabilities, not too mention can't be dropped, higher movement speed, and immunity to fall damage.
This is my favorite Light Cleric Build for redeemed Shadowheart! Weapons: - Main Hand: Phalar Aluve (Shriek) - Off Hand: Adamantine Shield - Ranged: Hellrider Longbow Armor: - **Helmet:** Holy Lance Helm - **Cloak**: Cloak of Displacement - **Chest:** Luminus Armor - **Gloves:** Glove of Belligerent Skies - **Boots:** Boots of stormy clamor - **Amulet:** - Amulet of Misty Step - Pearl of Power/ Spellcrux Amulet - Khalid's Gift +1 WIS - Amulet of Devout +2 Spell DC +1 Channel Divinity - **Ring**: Callous Glow Ring - **Ring:** Crusher's Ring Extras: - Warding Bond +1 AC and Resistance to Everything - Freedom of Movement - Transmuter Stone: Movement Speed - Longstrider - Elixir of Bloodlust Been experimenting with 8 Light Cleric / 4 Fighter which is interesting for DEF fighting style, Action surge, and Battle Master extra maneuvers
Lance Helm is critical to the build as every miss sets off luminous armor, callous glow ring, Gloves of belligerent skies, boots of stormy clamor and phalar aluve shriek. You purposely force opponents to use opportunity attacks against you and the reverberations cause them to go prone 90% of the time.
On my tactician solo run i ended up with 8 Light Cleric/ 2 Fighter/ 2Paladin All the pro as described above plus Smites. (spell slots 1-3, higher spell slots for spirit guardian) I switched the gloves to Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength and used Baldurian Giantslayer With Amulet of Greater Health no more need for a scorcerer level or warcaster. As feats i used Great Weapon Master and Savage Attacker. This Char was an unbeatable Beast As Tactic: Storm the front and kill :D
This build got me through my honour mode, an excellent tank for my party, felt pretty OP being able to debuff so many enemies so easily and quickly. Usually I shy away from debuff centric roles cause action economy, feel like dealing damage is often better but this build felt so good.
I could see this also as an addition to paladin & war cleric smiter build. You would have the same damage from the build in here, but in addition you would be capable of doing multiple smites per round and have a lot of spells to power those smites.
I did something similar, but i had different weapon, gloves and boots. I the phalar aluve as a weapon, using the sentinel shield for the extra initiative. That alone makes so i don't need alert, plus since i was a elf with high wisdom, i had a ton of perception. gloves of beligerent skies, and stormy clamour boots. It decrases my radiating orb generation by a little, but incrases by a TON my reverberation generation. Phalar aluve shriek will proc thunder damage everytime they take damage, and everytime they get damaged by radiant or thunder damage, they get 2 stacks of reverberation. plus, with boots of stormy clamour, they get another 2 stacks everytime we apply radiating orb, that meaning we will be constantly knocking them prone. The amulet of greater health also gives advantage on con saving throws, so warcaster is redundant. Because of that, i instead take one level of tempest sorcerer. That gives me con proficiency for even more saving throws, but most specifically, the spell shield, and the ability to fly after casting a spell. Instead of jumping around, i can just fly around the battlefied spreading debuffs, knocking people down, and IF they roll something that would hit me, i can just use the shield spell. Cloack of displacement + warding flare + shield + 10 stacks of radiating orb means i'll never get hit by any physical attack, or attack roll. I'd still take damage from stuff that requires saving throws, like fireball and whatever, but on how tanky i'm naturally am i just cannot die. The phalar aluve also helps my team a lot, and the combination of reverberation + phalar aluve shriek means they cannot push me since all of their dex/str checks get heavily debuffed. Many times, when the enemy comes close and take a hit from my spirit guardians, they are instantly knocked prone, and waste their turn inside it. And when their next turn starts, they take the damage again, being knocked prone again, wasting their turn again, and so on. It's insanely broken, altho the damage isn't the best. If i need to do damage, tho, there is always the cleric spells i could use, even tho i usually leave the heavy damage to my teammates. Been using it on honour mode with my friends and it's immoral.
My current favorite build that I'm playing my 1st honor run (with dark urge) is... - 6 levels open hand monk (always radiant punch unless enemy has radiant retort or is immune to radiant damage). - 6 levels light cleric (using radiant spirit guardians unless retort/immune). - 1st level into cleric for access to medium armor. (You can decide what order you level the rest in cuz I'm still not sure what's most efficient, but I went lv1 cleric, lv2-7 monk, lv8-12 cleric) - just for fun you can pick any race if I'm min/maxing, I'll pick half elf or half orc. - 10 strength (use/buy hill giant potions till act then go to cloud giant potions) - 14 dex - 17 con(+1 from tavern brawler for 18) - 16 wis - tavern brawler feat for the whole game. - war caster feat untill act 3. - always cast light on your bow untill you get your late game mace. And always swap to your weapon that's lit up via Light before ending your turn•[hold left D-pad on Xbox in combat] - Early game items... • Holy lance Helm. • Luminous armor. • Luminous gloves. • Pearl of power amulet AND Sentient amulet. • maybe spine shudder amulet too juuuuust in case it works with spirit guardians but if not then ignore this item. • Sentient shield. • Bow of awareness. • Boots of stormy clamour(triggers off of radiant orbs), OR Disintegrating Night Walkers if you really want that extra movement but Stormy is just too much fun and is definitely my preference. • Cloak of protection. • Coruscation Ring. • Callous glow ring.(is radiant dmg btw) - Become half illithid for free fly. (Then always fly in combat, never walk lol) - Late game items • Deva Mace (kill the Deva, long rest, loot the bag which replaces it's body) • Cloak of displacement. • Hellrider longbow. • Upgraded Sentient amulet, AND Spellcrux amulet AND Amulet of greater health(at this point Respec out of constitution and max out wisdom and dex, >>As well as getting rid of the War caster feat and getting the resilient feat for constitution.) • Amulet of the Devout. (This is how 2 devas will attack you once you short rest cuz of curse from stealing the amulet) • +2 Wis from Shar mirror. - don't forget about your favorite dye to make yourself look awesome 😎
Absolutely superb guide to one of my favorite builds, Pally! =) I would like to add my personal touch to it though and that is to use "Gloves of Belligerent Skies" (found in the room where you fight Ch'r'ai W'wargaz in the monastery) instead of the Luminous Gloves. When you do radiant damage, instead of adding even more Radiating Orbs (let's be honest, the enemies miss enough anyway. Especially if you use the Holy Lance helm) those gloves add Reverberation for some increased damage output and CC. =]
What if you also added the Boots of Stormy Clamour? You could get more reverberation since I'd assume that causing radiant orb stacks counts as a condition.
Fun build! The two different touches I tend to add are either going for Abjuration Wizard for 4 levels (grants access to scrolls and handy spells like shield (+5 AC and immunity to magic missiles) and fly and such, plus arcane ward is a nice fallback to block any damage that slips through early) or Battle Master for Maneuvers (riposte is just free swings when people miss, especially if you stack some extra dice with the feat, and the other attacks can be handy).
I know I'm a little late to the party here, but try this load-out with a dual-wield Deva Mace (4d8 Radiant damage). Even with dropping the shield you still get a +1 for AC with a dual-wield Feat and so most enemies will have only a 5% chance of landing a hit (natty 20) and the amount of damage you can inflict with the Spirit Guardians combined with an on-hand AND off-hand Deva Mace one-two punch makes for a fun playthrough!
I'm running a Light Cleric with similar gear and it's insane. while the Amulet of Greater Health is great and all, you don't get it until later in the game. Until then, use the Spineshudder Amulet to inflict reverberation when you use ranged spells. For boots there are two good options (better than what you recommended): Boots of Speed which double your movement and inflict disadvantage on opportunity attacks against you so you can stroll around the battlefield with no worries. Second are the Boots of Stormy Clamour. Those inflict reverberation when you inflict another condition (like Radiating Orbs). Finally, Gloves of Belligerent Skies inflict Reverberation which deals Reverberation when you deal Thunder, Lightning, or Radiant damage. No need to hit with a weapon as with the Luminous Gloves. Reverberation is a lot of fun. It debuffs saving throws for Strength, Dex, and Con, and once they get 5 or more stacked, they have to make a Con saving throw (at at least -5) or fall prone and taking a bit of Thunder damage clearing the stack. I haven't figured out if falling prone then triggers the boots to given them 2 Reverberation to start their next stack. So you wander around, enemies take the damage from the Spirit guardians, can't hit anything, can't save against most attacks, and fall down like they are drunk being easy targets for everyone. Oh and if you want to get around like you can with those Bonespike Boots, just respec with your first level as a Storm Sorcerer. Aside from gaining proficiency in Constitution, you get a bonus action fly every time you cast a spell level 1 or higher. That isn't tied to your movement. So do your thing and then hit the jet pack and fly over to say hello to more enemies.
u can also dual wield this with Light of Lethander and have your wizard cast haste on your and even take 2 levels of fighter for action surge... light cleric has been my go to build since early access. It is shockingly good
The holy lance helm, and the +1 to constitution, is good to keep up concentration on the off chance you do get hit. And I did not know about the ring under Last Light. I'm snatching that up from now on.
weird to say "I dont use holy lance helm (from act 1), because I like a better helmet in Act 3". Maybe we can use the Act 1 helm until we find a better one!
Holy lance helm refreshes stacks if they miss since they lose 2 stacks per attack. I use the reverberation gauntlets myself to to knock them prone in combination with the luminous orb build
I find that with a dexterity of 14 and one of the bows that add a bonus to initiative , you dont really need the Alert feat on Tactician (not sure about Honor mode). I'd set Con to 15 and pick up Resilient Constitution at level 4 along with Hag hair to Wisdom. Then ASI at level 8 for 20 Wis and Warcaster at level 12. Then you can set Cha to 10 so youre less bad at persuasion and such. EDIT: If Shadowheart is the Radiating Cleric, then 2 ASI's to Wisdom 20 and then Resilient Con at level 12.
Was just trolling around looking for builds for cleric and came across your vid. I listened for about 5min and realized your voice was familiar. It's probably the first time I haven't found you in a stream that wasn't with captain shack and the rest of the Armco affiliates
To add to this build, I would put in one level of Sorcerer for proficiency in constitution saving throws and the Storm Sorcerer subclass for the ability to fly an extra amount of distance after casting a spell. This lets you tag more spread out enemies with your swirly-whirlies and gives you an even higher chance of not having your concentration broken.
I like stacking the holy lance helm with adamantine armor for Act 2. It eliminates the critical hit risk & reduces damage (so you can play with karmic dice) .Then combo with Sentinel & War caster. once you are in melee range, enemy attacks are gonna lead to me hitting them and stacking orbs. and then they are stuck. It lets you protect allies better who the enemy will try to target if they have lower AC then once helm of Balduran comes in, you can swap the helm and armor out a
What you think of: -Holy Lance Helm -Cloak of Displacement -Luminous Armour -Gloves of Beligerant Skies -Boots of Stormy Clamour -Amulet of the Devout -Coruscation Ring -Callous Grow Ring -Defender Flail -Adamantine Shield -Hellrider Longbow (+3 Iniciative)
especially in act 2 i recommend 'wasting' spell slot and casting daylight on mele character it blinds everything, no hiding and it makes easy finding all chests
I did radiating orb sorcerer eventually getting the helldusk armor. Scorching rays would let me get many stacks on multiple targets right at the start of a fight, metamagic would let me pick multiple targets and do multiple spells every turn
Thank you Pally! Amazing build. I tweaked some spells and have some amazing spells. Big thanks! Shadowheart is on fire! 🎉 Add two levels of Fighter when/if all else fails..
Once you have the Amulet of Greather health you can drop warcaster as it only gives you shocking grrasp at that point, you can also start with one level in sorcer to get perfecenty in Con saves and not lose out on spell slots ( meaning you basicaly cant lose conentration even if you take aoe damage).
Gets even worse when you throw a 2nd cleric that heals and put the gear that gives bless on healing lol. So busted and yes honour mode is what I'm doing it on
I am not sure what I did wrong but I followed this video. My character keeps getting hit despite having all the armor, spirit guardians and such. It always breaks her concentration. I have not gotten warcaster yet, is that the issue? My tav is at level 7 now and we are traveling to moonrise
I run something like this on Shadowheart but as a tempest cleric with Spell sparkler and phalar aluve. the thunderbolt effect from tempest plus reverb plus orbs if just too funny. Everything bounces off and the few that can attack have huge debuffs. add in a few levels of storm sorc for flight and magic missle for huge damage when paired with shriek
if this isnt perfect timing and a sign.. i dont know what is. I have convinced my dad and brother to play BG3 because ive watched most of your 3 playthroughs. Still following K'lark. I am going a bard and now this tank so they can be the dps ^^
OMG how have I gone through SO many builds relying on those rings and *never* noticed the orbs stack?! I've been horribly gimping my builds because I didn't think they stacked, and I was only using the rings OR the gloves OR the armor OR the shield. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 This build is just as glorious as the "True Immortal" frost build Rage did a few months ago. It'd be fun to run SH with this build and have Tav running the Sorc build. Just wander around Faerun screaming "stop hitting yourself" to all the enemies! 🤣🤣
Pally I’ve been watching since Bruno the boxer and hiro Ds runs. Love the content bro! If you’re thinking about doing bios videos for a bit I’ve been brain storming an armor of agathys and tempest cleric build to make anyone who hits you regret that decision. Maybe that’d be fun for you to try out!
This looks like an awesome build but my worry would be running into the occasional enemy that reflects radiant damage. There aren't many of them but there are enough (in the House of Grief and maybe in the Gauntlet of Shar, and some fiends also I think) to make it very easy to insta-gib yourself. I suppose elixirs of radiant resistance would be a help here, although I think the damage gets reflected back as force damage, at least for Radiant Retort. I've come to be very leery of dealing radiant damage.
In honour mode radiant orb is nerfed, it's only function is to proc +2 radiant damage from the ring and reverb set. A better build would use reverb set and be 1st level sorcerer to better hold up spirit guardian or 2 sorc levels for infinite spell slots.
Ya I love this build I just started playing a couple weeks ago and I happen to be running this same basic build but I'm level 10 so at the moment I'm a lol 8 light cleric and 2nd level paladin vengeance waiting for 3rd for the vow of enmity for advantage for 10 rndd
just a warning for everyone that will attempt this in tactician/honour. radiant retort from certain enemies (Viconia, dark justiciars) will hit you for twice the radiant damage dealt. Take that into consideration before investing heavily.
Nice video but please test such builds against harder enemys. These enemys are weak and these kind of enemys are the best kind of enemys for ur build. Have a nice weekend!
Problem with this and all the similar builds early on is it relies on a lvl 3 spell slot and so you're needing to long rest quite often. In a party, using the whispering promise ring and amulet of restoration makes cleric the ultimate support beast and you don't really lose anything doing this. That then means you can bless the whole party on heal for 2 turns without using a spell slot of using concentration and so you have bless on the team and spirit guardians running and then bless individuals with individual heal and even bless yourself using potions
What if you combine this with monk and have thoes mommentum boots and just go running around with spirit gardians.... maybe shadow monk cause that shadow step is pretty busted. Along with wolf barbian karlach doing a howl that incresses movement. Or at least 3 theif for that extra action.
Guys, one friendly advice, if you gonna take auntie Ettel's "Hag's Hair", ALLWAYS use it to improve your constitution score. This way you get one interchangeable stat point, because you never want your constitution score to be below 10 i.e. your lowest stat, so 1 point in constitution is never bad. However, if you put the point in charisma, you cannot respecc this character to say strength, cause he will be left with 9 in charisma. While you never want to have too low constitution, no matter how you redistribute the stats. And if you want one point to even up some score, you can always take the Resilient trait, which gives you 1 point in any stat + advantage on saving throws for this stat.
Combining radiating orb with reverberation and encrusted with frost on a tempest cleric spamming ice storm while concentrating on spirit gaurdians might have been the most broken combo ive ever made in anything D&D. Nothing gets close, and if they do and manage to hit you, you use a reaction for 2d8 lightning or thunder damage to them which then triggers reverb again. And more combo bs, basically ensuring that everyting on the battlefield is prone in 2 or 3 rounds of combat and missing half their health. This works just as well with light cleric if you focus more on the orbs instead of reverberation.
i said this a few times already, cleric is the jack of all trades of D&D. you can literaly make a party of clerics with each doing a diferent role, and still make each feel completely diferent while still highly effective in that role. from caster, to tank, to healer to CC, to melee. there's so much leeway to give other classes more fun tools. i seriously dont get why its the least picked class in the game.
how can you have a radiant damage build with no divine smite? it just fits. Two levels of paladin and you can just walk around smiting bunnies on the head until your hearts content, combined with guardian angels of course. Play as a Zariel tief and you're even smitier.
Anyone know if Crusader's Mantle works with this? Like if the wearer of the radiating orb pieces casts Crusader's Mantle, are they credited with the extra radiant damage from the other characters and then activate their effects or is it just the damage that they deal with their weapon swings?
Stacked with the Adamantine Shield that sends attackers reeling if they miss you combos really well with this setup
It's also crit protection, and getting crit is pretty much the only way attacks land.
And boots of stormy clamour. That's what I'm using on shadowheart
yeah, it's a good combo, but reeling applies on hit
@@wldnrkls the helmet applies reeling on hit while the shield is on misses
@@wldnrkls for the armor, but the shield applies reeling on miss
Things to note for tank builds: Turn karmaric dice off. KD turns this build from a tanky monster into a crit fisher in the worst kind of ways. Each miss increases the chances of you being hit, the only way to be hit being a crit.
Adamantine Shield
@@TheGrizzlyKnight Adamantine armor still allows them to hit, they just won't cause extra damage from the crit
This explains a lot. I thought I was just getting hideously unlucky but no, just a game setting messing me up
@@cthulhuwu_ The way the armor is supposed to work - though I don't know any way to verify it - is it removes the critical hit altogether. A critical hit means not only more damage but it means that on a roll of 20 you hit NO MATTER WHAT the target's AC is. With critical removed that "autohit" effect should also be gone meaning there would be not way to actually hit if your AC is high enough and the maluses large enough.
Man u r life saver. I was going insane. They were keep landing crit hit on me, and I was so confused.
Something to keep in mind for honor mode: enemies remove 2 stacks of radiating orb every time they attack, whether they hit or miss. Paired with the -1 per turn, an enemy with extra attacks can remove at minimum 5 stacks of radiating orb per turn.
Additionally, I believe larian added a hard cap of radiating orb stacks. 10 stacks.
I was wondering why it wasn't as effective.
do they also remove that many stacks of reverbation and other conditions?
@@adamskeans2515 I don’t think so, since reverberation already gets cleared every time it hits 5 stacks.
I believe this was a fix to radiant orb because it could stack infinitely otherwise. And it was causing game crashes once it reached about 30+ stacks.
@@Drako2k0 so really not that big of a deal, cause even the robs go away the reverbation keeps pilin gup on them.
@@adamskeans2515 never really was too big of a deal. It’s just that ROBs in honor mode can’t be stacked and abused like they could in non-honor mode.
Still a good build though.
Some already mentioned it, but I can't recommend this combo enough: adding Boots of Stormy Clamour and Adamantite Shield make this build ridiculous. The Reverberation, stacks quickly because Radiant Orb is a condition too. I deliberately run around initiating opportunity attacks, because they extremely likely miss, adding Reeling (condition!) from the shield. Creatures receive thunder damage and likely go prone (condition too!) when having 5 stacks of reverberation - all this quickly spirals into an insane amount of damage and prone enemies for your party members to deal with.
Combine with the Cull the Weak illithid power and the AoE damage becomes absolutely ridiculous(ly fun).
A weapon like Intransigent Warhammer is insane in AoE situations and undervalued: you are near enemies anyway and procs on any kill. Lastly, just use a bow as a stat stick. Like one that adds initiative.
Seconded! This plus the gloves of belligerent skies makes stacking extra reverberation extremely easy. Its wild just how much extremely good gear you can get for this build as early as the creche & the underdark
This right here.
Tip: you can pair the ring that activates evry turn healing you for 1-4 and the ring that gives bless when you heal to get a permanent bless buff whit no concentration,and to add a bit of spice combine them whit the cloak that gives blur evry turn
Helm of balduran already heals every turn, don’t even need the healing ring just stick with coruscation.
I might be wrong but I think you’re thinking of the statue that gives perma bless. I know there’s a ring that lets you bless people when you heal them. Does regen from equipment proc thus making it perma-bless? Sounds really good if you’re not using the ring on your dedicated healer.
@@exxy9931 any form of healing triggers it
Fantastic. I used most of this at one time on Shadowheart, but I kept messing it up because I didn't really understand the enormous advantage the orbs gave her and the party - so I always put her in Adamantine armor, and sometimes swapped out one of the rings. Since I now starting a Tactial run with a Light Cleric - I guess I'll get first hand experience.
Everybody goes with the Callous Glow Ring, but the Ring of Mental Inhibition (Act 2, near the Shadowed Battlefield waypoint) actually synergizes better in my experience. It inflicts Mental Fatigue on an enemy's failed Saving Throw (Spirit Guardians aura, Holy Lance Helm, Reverb's Prone, and spell attacks). MF is -1 INT/WIS/CHA, stack 7 max, 5 or more pops 1d4 Psychic and resets fatigue.
Now, enemies have up to -10 to attack (Holy Lance Helm), up to -5 in STR/DEX/CON saves (Reverb Prone), up to -7 INT/WIS/CHA saves (all spellcasters, plus Spirit Guardians), all the while taking damage.
I provoke Opportunity Attacks as much as I possibly can. They miss, take Radiant from HLH (which they fail thanks to RoMI). Damage pops the Shockwave, which pops the Boots Reverb, which knocks half of them Prone as it stacks out, and the Thunderskin Cloak puts Dazed on the other half. I tanked all of Shadowheart's final story battle with her frontline and 3 people in the back lazily helping her out.
Considering there's a cap of 10 stacks for most if not all status effects, I do think the Blood of Lathander is better than the Sacred Star. Primarily because the BoL is its own light source which procs the rings this build has without needing to cast Light or Daylight, plus this light also blinds undead near you. And the 1/day Sunbeam cast is just better than not having it
The light from BoL doesn’t actually proc the rings believe it or not.
In honour mode they lose stacks significantly quicker so the sacred star is a must to avoid worst case scenarios
blood doesnt deal radiant damage, first off
second, other than the ray, it's just a mace
if youre going down enough to rely on the res, you should probably play a simpler game
the staver-of-skulls light hammer for example is much better in this set up, since it is self-lighted, does radiant, and can be dual-wielded if thats your thing
we're going for cheese with this build, not stand and fight tactics serious-gamer-mode. this is a stupid build for the fun of being stupid. embrace the stupid, stupid.
At that point just go for the Nyrulna: all the same perks as blood of lathander, but more, with added thunder damage and throwing capabilities, not too mention can't be dropped, higher movement speed, and immunity to fall damage.
This is my favorite Light Cleric Build for redeemed Shadowheart!
Weapons:
- Main Hand: Phalar Aluve (Shriek)
- Off Hand: Adamantine Shield
- Ranged: Hellrider Longbow
Armor:
- **Helmet:** Holy Lance Helm
- **Cloak**: Cloak of Displacement
- **Chest:** Luminus Armor
- **Gloves:** Glove of Belligerent Skies
- **Boots:** Boots of stormy clamor
- **Amulet:**
- Amulet of Misty Step
- Pearl of Power/ Spellcrux Amulet
- Khalid's Gift +1 WIS
- Amulet of Devout +2 Spell DC +1 Channel Divinity
- **Ring**: Callous Glow Ring
- **Ring:** Crusher's Ring
Extras:
- Warding Bond +1 AC and Resistance to Everything
- Freedom of Movement
- Transmuter Stone: Movement Speed
- Longstrider
- Elixir of Bloodlust
Been experimenting with 8 Light Cleric / 4 Fighter which is interesting for DEF fighting style, Action surge, and Battle Master extra maneuvers
Lance Helm is critical to the build as every miss sets off luminous armor, callous glow ring, Gloves of belligerent skies, boots of stormy clamor and phalar aluve shriek. You purposely force opponents to use opportunity attacks against you and the reverberations cause them to go prone 90% of the time.
@@TheGrizzlyKnight That looks interesting also.
On my tactician solo run i ended up with 8 Light Cleric/ 2 Fighter/ 2Paladin
All the pro as described above plus Smites. (spell slots 1-3, higher spell slots for spirit guardian)
I switched the gloves to Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength and used Baldurian Giantslayer
With Amulet of Greater Health no more need for a scorcerer level or warcaster.
As feats i used Great Weapon Master and Savage Attacker.
This Char was an unbeatable Beast
As Tactic: Storm the front and kill :D
This build got me through my honour mode, an excellent tank for my party, felt pretty OP being able to debuff so many enemies so easily and quickly. Usually I shy away from debuff centric roles cause action economy, feel like dealing damage is often better but this build felt so good.
I could see this also as an addition to paladin & war cleric smiter build. You would have the same damage from the build in here, but in addition you would be capable of doing multiple smites per round and have a lot of spells to power those smites.
I did something similar, but i had different weapon, gloves and boots.
I the phalar aluve as a weapon, using the sentinel shield for the extra initiative. That alone makes so i don't need alert, plus since i was a elf with high wisdom, i had a ton of perception.
gloves of beligerent skies, and stormy clamour boots. It decrases my radiating orb generation by a little, but incrases by a TON my reverberation generation. Phalar aluve shriek will proc thunder damage everytime they take damage, and everytime they get damaged by radiant or thunder damage, they get 2 stacks of reverberation. plus, with boots of stormy clamour, they get another 2 stacks everytime we apply radiating orb, that meaning we will be constantly knocking them prone.
The amulet of greater health also gives advantage on con saving throws, so warcaster is redundant. Because of that, i instead take one level of tempest sorcerer. That gives me con proficiency for even more saving throws, but most specifically, the spell shield, and the ability to fly after casting a spell. Instead of jumping around, i can just fly around the battlefied spreading debuffs, knocking people down, and IF they roll something that would hit me, i can just use the shield spell. Cloack of displacement + warding flare + shield + 10 stacks of radiating orb means i'll never get hit by any physical attack, or attack roll. I'd still take damage from stuff that requires saving throws, like fireball and whatever, but on how tanky i'm naturally am i just cannot die. The phalar aluve also helps my team a lot, and the combination of reverberation + phalar aluve shriek means they cannot push me since all of their dex/str checks get heavily debuffed. Many times, when the enemy comes close and take a hit from my spirit guardians, they are instantly knocked prone, and waste their turn inside it. And when their next turn starts, they take the damage again, being knocked prone again, wasting their turn again, and so on. It's insanely broken, altho the damage isn't the best. If i need to do damage, tho, there is always the cleric spells i could use, even tho i usually leave the heavy damage to my teammates. Been using it on honour mode with my friends and it's immoral.
PS: Taking the 1st level in storm sorcerer giver you Constitution save proficiency, access to the shield spell and a free bonus action mobility option
does rolling hybrid into Fighter also give you con save proficiency?
@@stevenxowens792 you only get the save proficiencies for your lv1 class
Só If you START fighter, yeah you also get CON proficiency
but then you miss out on medium armor proficiency with sorcerer as 1st level (unless you're githyanki)
@@vindicator879 you still get medium armor and shield proficiency from cleric when you multiclass into the class.
I love the fact that the demonstration is first.
My current favorite build that I'm playing my 1st honor run (with dark urge) is...
- 6 levels open hand monk (always radiant punch unless enemy has radiant retort or is immune to radiant damage).
- 6 levels light cleric (using radiant spirit guardians unless retort/immune).
- 1st level into cleric for access to medium armor. (You can decide what order you level the rest in cuz I'm still not sure what's most efficient, but I went lv1 cleric, lv2-7 monk, lv8-12 cleric)
- just for fun you can pick any race if I'm min/maxing, I'll pick half elf or half orc.
- 10 strength (use/buy hill giant potions till act then go to cloud giant potions)
- 14 dex
- 17 con(+1 from tavern brawler for 18)
- 16 wis
- tavern brawler feat for the whole game.
- war caster feat untill act 3.
- always cast light on your bow untill you get your late game mace. And always swap to your weapon that's lit up via Light before ending your turn•[hold left D-pad on Xbox in combat]
- Early game items...
• Holy lance Helm.
• Luminous armor.
• Luminous gloves.
• Pearl of power amulet AND Sentient amulet.
• maybe spine shudder amulet too juuuuust in case it works with spirit guardians but if not then ignore this item.
• Sentient shield.
• Bow of awareness.
• Boots of stormy clamour(triggers off of radiant orbs), OR Disintegrating Night Walkers if you really want that extra movement but Stormy is just too much fun and is definitely my preference.
• Cloak of protection.
• Coruscation Ring.
• Callous glow ring.(is radiant dmg btw)
- Become half illithid for free fly. (Then always fly in combat, never walk lol)
- Late game items
• Deva Mace (kill the Deva, long rest, loot the bag which replaces it's body)
• Cloak of displacement.
• Hellrider longbow.
• Upgraded Sentient amulet, AND Spellcrux amulet AND Amulet of greater health(at this point Respec out of constitution and max out wisdom and dex, >>As well as getting rid of the War caster feat and getting the resilient feat for constitution.)
• Amulet of the Devout. (This is how 2 devas will attack you once you short rest cuz of curse from stealing the amulet)
• +2 Wis from Shar mirror.
- don't forget about your favorite dye to make yourself look awesome 😎
Absolutely superb guide to one of my favorite builds, Pally! =)
I would like to add my personal touch to it though and that is to use "Gloves of Belligerent Skies" (found in the room where you fight Ch'r'ai W'wargaz in the monastery) instead of the Luminous Gloves. When you do radiant damage, instead of adding even more Radiating Orbs (let's be honest, the enemies miss enough anyway. Especially if you use the Holy Lance helm) those gloves add Reverberation for some increased damage output and CC. =]
What if you also added the Boots of Stormy Clamour? You could get more reverberation since I'd assume that causing radiant orb stacks counts as a condition.
@@ender4652 It absolutely does!
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Fun build! The two different touches I tend to add are either going for Abjuration Wizard for 4 levels (grants access to scrolls and handy spells like shield (+5 AC and immunity to magic missiles) and fly and such, plus arcane ward is a nice fallback to block any damage that slips through early) or Battle Master for Maneuvers (riposte is just free swings when people miss, especially if you stack some extra dice with the feat, and the other attacks can be handy).
I was thinking about what domain to to choose for my cleric run of the game. I know now lol
This was great pally. Just started a cleric for my second run with wife. This looks fun, gunna give it a try
I know I'm a little late to the party here, but try this load-out with a dual-wield Deva Mace (4d8 Radiant damage). Even with dropping the shield you still get a +1 for AC with a dual-wield Feat and so most enemies will have only a 5% chance of landing a hit (natty 20) and the amount of damage you can inflict with the Spirit Guardians combined with an on-hand AND off-hand Deva Mace one-two punch makes for a fun playthrough!
I'm running a Light Cleric with similar gear and it's insane. while the Amulet of Greater Health is great and all, you don't get it until later in the game. Until then, use the Spineshudder Amulet to inflict reverberation when you use ranged spells. For boots there are two good options (better than what you recommended): Boots of Speed which double your movement and inflict disadvantage on opportunity attacks against you so you can stroll around the battlefield with no worries. Second are the Boots of Stormy Clamour. Those inflict reverberation when you inflict another condition (like Radiating Orbs). Finally, Gloves of Belligerent Skies inflict Reverberation which deals Reverberation when you deal Thunder, Lightning, or Radiant damage. No need to hit with a weapon as with the Luminous Gloves. Reverberation is a lot of fun. It debuffs saving throws for Strength, Dex, and Con, and once they get 5 or more stacked, they have to make a Con saving throw (at at least -5) or fall prone and taking a bit of Thunder damage clearing the stack. I haven't figured out if falling prone then triggers the boots to given them 2 Reverberation to start their next stack. So you wander around, enemies take the damage from the Spirit guardians, can't hit anything, can't save against most attacks, and fall down like they are drunk being easy targets for everyone. Oh and if you want to get around like you can with those Bonespike Boots, just respec with your first level as a Storm Sorcerer. Aside from gaining proficiency in Constitution, you get a bonus action fly every time you cast a spell level 1 or higher. That isn't tied to your movement. So do your thing and then hit the jet pack and fly over to say hello to more enemies.
I've got a similar build in Act 3, so far 5 light domain cleric and 5 levels in vengeance paladin. Gives him more offensive capabilities.
u can also dual wield this with Light of Lethander and have your wizard cast haste on your and even take 2 levels of fighter for action surge... light cleric has been my go to build since early access. It is shockingly good
Wow. 2nd video I've watched and you're 2 for 2. You're builds are hilarious. I lovem
The holy lance helm, and the +1 to constitution, is good to keep up concentration on the off chance you do get hit. And I did not know about the ring under Last Light. I'm snatching that up from now on.
weird to say "I dont use holy lance helm (from act 1), because I like a better helmet in Act 3".
Maybe we can use the Act 1 helm until we find a better one!
I'm late to the game but thank you sir!! Great build and info!!!
Holy lance helm refreshes stacks if they miss since they lose 2 stacks per attack. I use the reverberation gauntlets myself to to knock them prone in combination with the luminous orb build
I find that with a dexterity of 14 and one of the bows that add a bonus to initiative , you dont really need the Alert feat on Tactician (not sure about Honor mode). I'd set Con to 15 and pick up Resilient Constitution at level 4 along with Hag hair to Wisdom. Then ASI at level 8 for 20 Wis and Warcaster at level 12. Then you can set Cha to 10 so youre less bad at persuasion and such. EDIT: If Shadowheart is the Radiating Cleric, then 2 ASI's to Wisdom 20 and then Resilient Con at level 12.
Was just trolling around looking for builds for cleric and came across your vid. I listened for about 5min and realized your voice was familiar. It's probably the first time I haven't found you in a stream that wasn't with captain shack and the rest of the Armco affiliates
The helm at the top of the monastery deals 1d4 Radiant damage whenever an opponent misses. That keeps the stacks fueled!
To add to this build, I would put in one level of Sorcerer for proficiency in constitution saving throws and the Storm Sorcerer subclass for the ability to fly an extra amount of distance after casting a spell. This lets you tag more spread out enemies with your swirly-whirlies and gives you an even higher chance of not having your concentration broken.
I like stacking the holy lance helm with adamantine armor for Act 2. It eliminates the critical hit risk & reduces damage (so you can play with karmic dice) .Then combo with Sentinel & War caster. once you are in melee range, enemy attacks are gonna lead to me hitting them and stacking orbs. and then they are stuck.
It lets you protect allies better who the enemy will try to target if they have lower AC
then once helm of Balduran comes in, you can swap the helm and armor out a
Cool! Love the idea of a tank that nerfs enemy chance to attack!
Not sure if anyone has said yet, but having lathanders mace on provides illumination already, no need for light spell.
Rocking this exact build on my playthrough right now. Lots of laughs and it almost doesn't feel fair. Lol thanks for showcasing!
What you think of:
-Holy Lance Helm
-Cloak of Displacement
-Luminous Armour
-Gloves of Beligerant Skies
-Boots of Stormy Clamour
-Amulet of the Devout
-Coruscation Ring
-Callous Grow Ring
-Defender Flail
-Adamantine Shield
-Hellrider Longbow (+3 Iniciative)
especially in act 2 i recommend 'wasting' spell slot and casting daylight on mele character
it blinds everything, no hiding and it makes easy finding all chests
If you know the trick you can also get 2 Diva Maces in the Stormshore Tabernacle. They do insane Radiant damage.
I did radiating orb sorcerer eventually getting the helldusk armor.
Scorching rays would let me get many stacks on multiple targets right at the start of a fight, metamagic would let me pick multiple targets and do multiple spells every turn
Thank you Pally! Amazing build. I tweaked some spells and have some amazing spells. Big thanks! Shadowheart is on fire! 🎉 Add two levels of Fighter when/if all else fails..
This is my current build im doing with my duo and its really fun. didnt expect it to be
I love the roleplay aesthetic of simply making a blinding orb appear above somebody so they can't see you.
There are boots that give enemies reverbation when you inflict a condition. That translates to swing at you, miss, and fall on their ass every turn.
Once you have the Amulet of Greather health you can drop warcaster as it only gives you shocking grrasp at that point, you can also start with one level in sorcer to get perfecenty in Con saves and not lose out on spell slots ( meaning you basicaly cant lose conentration even if you take aoe damage).
Gets even worse when you throw a 2nd cleric that heals and put the gear that gives bless on healing lol. So busted and yes honour mode is what I'm doing it on
I didn't see the name at first and noticed it sounded familiar to all the HoTS videos I've seen lol
If you are using the Lathander mace, do you need to cast light on yourself? It already sheds light in a 20ft radius.
I've been waiting to watch bg3 content until I buy the game but have been loving your HotS content in the meantime. Keep it coming Pally!
I am not sure what I did wrong but I followed this video. My character keeps getting hit despite having all the armor, spirit guardians and such. It always breaks her concentration. I have not gotten warcaster yet, is that the issue?
My tav is at level 7 now and we are traveling to moonrise
I run something like this on Shadowheart but as a tempest cleric with Spell sparkler and phalar aluve. the thunderbolt effect from tempest plus reverb plus orbs if just too funny. Everything bounces off and the few that can attack have huge debuffs. add in a few levels of storm sorc for flight and magic missle for huge damage when paired with shriek
Reverb gloves/boots missing for more CC.
I'm still amazed when people say "clerics are the healers of dnd"...
Oh ye of little faith (pun intended)
if this isnt perfect timing and a sign.. i dont know what is. I have convinced my dad and brother to play BG3 because ive watched most of your 3 playthroughs. Still following K'lark. I am going a bard and now this tank so they can be the dps ^^
OMG how have I gone through SO many builds relying on those rings and *never* noticed the orbs stack?! I've been horribly gimping my builds because I didn't think they stacked, and I was only using the rings OR the gloves OR the armor OR the shield. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
This build is just as glorious as the "True Immortal" frost build Rage did a few months ago. It'd be fun to run SH with this build and have Tav running the Sorc build. Just wander around Faerun screaming "stop hitting yourself" to all the enemies! 🤣🤣
EDIT: Nvm, I just got to that part ((also I was confusing the radiant orbs with reverberation
Good thing I didn’t MISS this episode. 😂😂😂.😊
Pally I’ve been watching since Bruno the boxer and hiro Ds runs. Love the content bro! If you’re thinking about doing bios videos for a bit I’ve been brain storming an armor of agathys and tempest cleric build to make anyone who hits you regret that decision. Maybe that’d be fun for you to try out!
Light of Lathander already sheds light, don't need to cast anything
At the top of the creche across from where the eagle is a helmet that does radiant dmg to target that miss attacks
he talked about it in the video
@@Angels-Haven yeah i saw that after i posted this. i don’t delete comments though.
Any cleric can use those items though. It doesn't have to be a light cleric. Just a thought.
Yep. Sick.
You remind me of one of my previous players from a TOmb of annihilation campaign. Makes me hope he is well
sadly he passed away
@zenyatta5064 potentially who knows.
This looks like an awesome build but my worry would be running into the occasional enemy that reflects radiant damage. There aren't many of them but there are enough (in the House of Grief and maybe in the Gauntlet of Shar, and some fiends also I think) to make it very easy to insta-gib yourself. I suppose elixirs of radiant resistance would be a help here, although I think the damage gets reflected back as force damage, at least for Radiant Retort. I've come to be very leery of dealing radiant damage.
thats where your party members would come in
THIS IS AMAZINGGGGGGG------THANK U Dungeon Master!
ooh nice vid pally
It's even better imo if you use this build as a healer, spamming out Mass Healing Word while being impossible to take down is always p good
In honour mode radiant orb is nerfed, it's only function is to proc +2 radiant damage from the ring and reverb set. A better build would use reverb set and be 1st level sorcerer to better hold up spirit guardian or 2 sorc levels for infinite spell slots.
Ya I love this build I just started playing a couple weeks ago and I happen to be running this same basic build but I'm level 10 so at the moment I'm a lol 8 light cleric and 2nd level paladin vengeance waiting for 3rd for the vow of enmity for advantage for 10 rndd
just a warning for everyone that will attempt this in tactician/honour.
radiant retort from certain enemies (Viconia, dark justiciars) will hit you for twice the radiant damage dealt. Take that into consideration before investing heavily.
Blah blah blah, can't hear you over the sound of my BLINDING LIGHT OF INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT
If you had the reverb gloves and boots from act 1, it would be even more hilarious.
I will for sure try this build
Nice video but please test such builds against harder enemys. These enemys are weak and these kind of enemys are the best kind of enemys for ur build.
Have a nice weekend!
Problem with this and all the similar builds early on is it relies on a lvl 3 spell slot and so you're needing to long rest quite often. In a party, using the whispering promise ring and amulet of restoration makes cleric the ultimate support beast and you don't really lose anything doing this. That then means you can bless the whole party on heal for 2 turns without using a spell slot of using concentration and so you have bless on the team and spirit guardians running and then bless individuals with individual heal and even bless yourself using potions
Just armour is enough for radiating orb and leaves other slots for tanky/support/dmg items.
What if you combine this with monk and have thoes mommentum boots and just go running around with spirit gardians.... maybe shadow monk cause that shadow step is pretty busted. Along with wolf barbian karlach doing a howl that incresses movement. Or at least 3 theif for that extra action.
Soo basically how to turn Shadowheart finally useful. Instead of just missing all the time
with lathander you dont need to cast light at all
Great build!
Guys, one friendly advice, if you gonna take auntie Ettel's "Hag's Hair", ALLWAYS use it to improve your constitution score.
This way you get one interchangeable stat point, because you never want your constitution score to be below 10 i.e. your lowest stat, so 1 point in constitution is never bad.
However, if you put the point in charisma, you cannot respecc this character to say strength, cause he will be left with 9 in charisma.
While you never want to have too low constitution, no matter how you redistribute the stats. And if you want one point to even up some score, you can always take the Resilient trait, which gives you 1 point in any stat + advantage on saving throws for this stat.
Love this build, solos act 2
Swirly Wirlies.... LMAO. Light Cleric is such a powerful build.
Aren't there shoes that prevent you getting tossed around when you are concentrating try those.
just use potion of giant strength before combat
Could you clarify why you suggest the Bonespike Boots? You are wearing armor and a shield so you are using those only for the spell on them?
They look like ducks flying around lol
I'm playing this build right now, What kind of group composition would you recommand to go with this cleric build ?
Honor mode playthrough next!
At what level does the Light Cleric gain the Swirlie Whirlie friends ?
And how to play to level5?
i saw so many level 5 Builds but no one shows how to level5 to deal with strong enemys
Have you tried this on honour?
Is necessary a light cleric, or i can do this even with a life cleric?
I love this game
Combining radiating orb with reverberation and encrusted with frost on a tempest cleric spamming ice storm while concentrating on spirit gaurdians might have been the most broken combo ive ever made in anything D&D. Nothing gets close, and if they do and manage to hit you, you use a reaction for 2d8 lightning or thunder damage to them which then triggers reverb again. And more combo bs, basically ensuring that everyting on the battlefield is prone in 2 or 3 rounds of combat and missing half their health.
This works just as well with light cleric if you focus more on the orbs instead of reverberation.
i said this a few times already, cleric is the jack of all trades of D&D. you can literaly make a party of clerics with each doing a diferent role, and still make each feel completely diferent while still highly effective in that role.
from caster, to tank, to healer to CC, to melee.
there's so much leeway to give other classes more fun tools.
i seriously dont get why its the least picked class in the game.
Any good replacement for the luminous armor already missed it 😢
how can you have a radiant damage build with no divine smite? it just fits. Two levels of paladin and you can just walk around smiting bunnies on the head until your hearts content, combined with guardian angels of course. Play as a Zariel tief and you're even smitier.
Can you please do a Bard/Wizard Playthrough
Good vid. Like the energy, HATE the way you pronounce melee "melly" *LOL*
why not use the helmet on the roof of the creche that deals radiant damage to an enemy that misses an attack
Anyone know if Crusader's Mantle works with this? Like if the wearer of the radiating orb pieces casts Crusader's Mantle, are they credited with the extra radiant damage from the other characters and then activate their effects or is it just the damage that they deal with their weapon swings?