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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CTurbo" data-source="post: 7317079" data-attributes="member: 6855234">My Tempest Cleric has been my favorite character to play with in 5e so far. I feel like it is an extremely powerful Class/Domain. You get full armor and weapon proficiencies so you'll want to use Heavy Armor which means you're going to want at least a 15 in Str so you can wear full plate. With point buy, Variant Human, and the Heavy Armor Mastery feat, I started with 16 Str10 Dex14 Con8 Int16 Wis10 CharThe Heavy Armor Mastery feat is EXTREMELY strong at low levels and is never useless at higher levels as things start attacking more than once. Resilient Con is also very good for a Cleric so you can't go wrong there either. You could still start with these stats if you want Res(Con)16 Str10 Dex16 Con8 Int16 Wis8 CharI started off using Morningstar + Shield and Chain Mail for 18 AC but once I got into Full Plate, my AC was 20. I found a Ring of Protection for another +1 to AC. I actually ended up ditching the Shield and using a +1 Greatsword after a while because I was so hard to hit, and when I did get hit, I only took partial damage. You'll want to bump Wis at level 4 most likely. I actually took +2 to Str with my guy because I wanted him to be more melee focused. It's fun to play unoptimized characters sometimes, and I started to feel like he was overshadowing the group a bit. (he really was)The Tempest Features are a blast and the Domain spells are great. At low levels, Wrath of the Storm is ridiculous. You will flat out kill the first few enemies who attack you using your reaction haha. In our first encounter, I was surrounded by 3 guards, I killed one on my turn, the middle guard attacked me for 3 damage, which I negated completely, and was able to kill him with my reaction. The 3rd guard threw down his weapon and surrendered haha. Destructive Wrath is one of the best abilities in the whole book if you ask me. Once a day starting at second level, and twice at level 6, you will flat our end an encounter before it even begins. We were not going in the direction our DM wanted us to go in so he sent a large 20+ group of Gnolls our way to try to get us to turn around. I cast Shatter, maxed the damage, and killed like 14 or 15 of them immediately. DM was pissed haha. he said we were not even supposed to fight them. You're definitely going to have a lot of fun with your character.Oh yeah spells, you still have access to all of the normal Cleric spells so you scan stock up on healing and buffing spells. I chose to be way more offensive and only take a couple healing spells, but you can do whatever you want of course. I found it better to just end the encounter by killing the enemies than to waste a turn trying to heal. I remember one encounter where I had a couple of friends in my blast zone and I chose to kill them too along with the enemy because I knew I had Spare the Dying and I could just revive them right afterwards hahaha</blockquote>

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