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<blockquote data-quote="daendil" data-source="post: 6874258" data-attributes="member: 6845039"><p><span style="color: #333333">Greetings!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">I'm in a group gearing up to run Curse of Strahd and the Light domain Cleric caught my fancy. This will be only my second 5e campaign so I could use some advice for my build.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">I'm going with Variant Human, standard array. Final ability scores are: STR 10, DEX 14, CON 14, INT 12, WIS 16, CHA 8. Scale Mail, Shield. No melee weapon (yet).</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Leaning toward War Caster for my starting feat. I shouldn't HAVE to be in the front lines, despite my 18 AC at 1st level, but still thought that the Warcaster benefits would be nice. However, would Elemental Adept (Fire) be a better choice, particularly if I don't need to be in the front, and considering the campaign?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">I've read that I should use the level 4 and 8 boosts to get to 20 WIS ASAP. Has anyone played a similar build far enough to judge the benefit?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Thanks in advance for any pointers!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daendil, post: 6874258, member: 6845039"] [COLOR=#333333]Greetings![/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]I'm in a group gearing up to run Curse of Strahd and the Light domain Cleric caught my fancy. This will be only my second 5e campaign so I could use some advice for my build.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]I'm going with Variant Human, standard array. Final ability scores are: STR 10, DEX 14, CON 14, INT 12, WIS 16, CHA 8. Scale Mail, Shield. No melee weapon (yet).[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]Leaning toward War Caster for my starting feat. I shouldn't HAVE to be in the front lines, despite my 18 AC at 1st level, but still thought that the Warcaster benefits would be nice. However, would Elemental Adept (Fire) be a better choice, particularly if I don't need to be in the front, and considering the campaign?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]I've read that I should use the level 4 and 8 boosts to get to 20 WIS ASAP. Has anyone played a similar build far enough to judge the benefit?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]Thanks in advance for any pointers![/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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