D&D 5E (2014) Best War Cleric?

[Warmaster Horus]

I started playing a war cleric a couple of months ago. Half Elf with one level of Sorc for Booming Blade. Works pretty well. Has a high AC and can be used as a front liner pretty reliably. Brings up Spirit Guardians, hits things and puts extra damage on them if they move, can do a respectable heal and has two uses of +10 to hit per rest. Sure there are better classes and builds out there but this one works well enough for what it does.

 

[CapnZapp]

Spirit Guardians is probably too good

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[FrogReaver]

Spirit Guardians is probably too good

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Sounds like a good topic to start a thread on

 

[mellored]

War cleric are weak. Not unplayable, but still weak. Spiritual weapon/Guardian can work better on a life clerics with more Wis.

The best use I found is with assassin. Where the +10 to hit can help make sure you land a crit.

 

[Sacrosanct]

In HotDQ and RoT I played a blue dragonborn tempest cleric. I was more than effective, and sometimes, the most effective combatant on the field. If you're going to play a war cleric that sees melee combat, spirit guardians is your friend (along with war caster and resilient feats).

 

[FrogReaver]

War cleric are weak. Not unplayable, but still weak. Spiritual weapon/Guardian can work better on a life clerics with more Wis.

The best use I found is with assassin. Where the +10 to hit can help make sure you land a crit.

If you roll and get high str and wisdom I don't think they are weak. Life adds a little bit of healing. You get enough from your abilities to dominate 1 combat per day!

 

[Satyrn]

I had fun playing my half-orc war cleric with a 16 Str and 14 Wis.

 

[jgsugden]

You're a cleric or war, not a warrior cleric. That has to be your expectation or the war cleric will disappoint. It just can't compete with the multi-attack heavy weapon fighters. You need to think of the melee abilities as your cantrip equivalents, not the focus of the class. Your focus still has to be on big spells. If you want to be an effective melee combatant first, you need to blend in 5 levels of a class that gets 2 attacks per attack action at 5th level.

 

[Draco359]

Has anyone played war cleric as an archer?

 

[FrogReaver]

Has anyone played war cleric as an archer?

Won't play as well as melee for a variety of reasons.