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<blockquote data-quote="Kithas" data-source="post: 7154930" data-attributes="member: 97587"><p>So firstly I am going to break down what I am hearing from you; You like the idea of a Thor worshiping thunder smashing melee gish style character. You want to focus on Tankiness and Spellcasting while also doing well in melee. Your race is flexible. You want booming blade.</p><p></p><p>Going off of that it really doesn't sound like tempest cleric is the right fit for you :/</p><p>Tempest Cleric lends itself mostly to being a blaster, using almost entirely spells to do your damage. It can definitely be tanky but doesn't really give you specific features to help you there. It gives you basically nothing in the way of martial prowess, no fighting style, extra attack etc. the only feature that supports even carrying a weapon is Divine Strike and in my experience that feature is a joke. 1d8 per turn on your turn is just so minimal and you have to wait sooo long to get it. It stipulating on your turn, plus the fact that you won't get extra attack means that many rounds you won't get any benefit from the feature at all because you missed on your one chance.</p><p></p><p>For what it sounds like you want to do my recommendation would be to ask your DM if you can use the most recent UA for favored soul sorceror. <a href="http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/revised-subclasses" target="_blank">Link</a> And throw in 2 levels of Paladin to give you armor/weapon proficiencies and Thunderous smite, plus fighting style.</p><p>This hits a lot more of what you're looking for. You have that cool rp link to Thor and thematically are very similar, doing his will in this plane. You get Booming blade and Thunderclap without having to jump through significant hoops. You have actual features that bolster your offense and defensive abilities martially and spellcasting wise. You even get the super-cool nova turns of using Quicken spell to Booming Blade two different enemies, or the same guy twice, in one turn. Thunderous smite is super cool and on theme as well, you can preload as a bonus action and then booming blade to do (at level 5) 1d8+2d6 Thunder damage plus your weapon hit, and if they fail the save you knock em back and prone so if they want to get back into melee range they have to set off your booming blade.</p><p></p><p>There are some other options if your dm isn't agreeable to the UA stuff. Some of it in the past has been a little out of bounds so it's iffy. This version has been iterated on a bunch and it seems very balanced to me however so there's a good chance that he'll allow it. Let me know what he says and if it's a no-go I can dream up some other advice for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kithas, post: 7154930, member: 97587"] So firstly I am going to break down what I am hearing from you; You like the idea of a Thor worshiping thunder smashing melee gish style character. You want to focus on Tankiness and Spellcasting while also doing well in melee. Your race is flexible. You want booming blade. Going off of that it really doesn't sound like tempest cleric is the right fit for you :/ Tempest Cleric lends itself mostly to being a blaster, using almost entirely spells to do your damage. It can definitely be tanky but doesn't really give you specific features to help you there. It gives you basically nothing in the way of martial prowess, no fighting style, extra attack etc. the only feature that supports even carrying a weapon is Divine Strike and in my experience that feature is a joke. 1d8 per turn on your turn is just so minimal and you have to wait sooo long to get it. It stipulating on your turn, plus the fact that you won't get extra attack means that many rounds you won't get any benefit from the feature at all because you missed on your one chance. For what it sounds like you want to do my recommendation would be to ask your DM if you can use the most recent UA for favored soul sorceror. [URL="http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/revised-subclasses"]Link[/URL] And throw in 2 levels of Paladin to give you armor/weapon proficiencies and Thunderous smite, plus fighting style. This hits a lot more of what you're looking for. You have that cool rp link to Thor and thematically are very similar, doing his will in this plane. You get Booming blade and Thunderclap without having to jump through significant hoops. You have actual features that bolster your offense and defensive abilities martially and spellcasting wise. You even get the super-cool nova turns of using Quicken spell to Booming Blade two different enemies, or the same guy twice, in one turn. Thunderous smite is super cool and on theme as well, you can preload as a bonus action and then booming blade to do (at level 5) 1d8+2d6 Thunder damage plus your weapon hit, and if they fail the save you knock em back and prone so if they want to get back into melee range they have to set off your booming blade. There are some other options if your dm isn't agreeable to the UA stuff. Some of it in the past has been a little out of bounds so it's iffy. This version has been iterated on a bunch and it seems very balanced to me however so there's a good chance that he'll allow it. Let me know what he says and if it's a no-go I can dream up some other advice for you. [/QUOTE]
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