Baldur's Gate 3 - Cleric Build Guide
Zap and electrocute your opponents with this Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric build guide.
By Jason Rodriguez on
The best Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric build makes use of elemental forces, combined with holy might. With these abilities, you can ensure that your allies are kept safe, and enemies are eliminated swiftly. Our Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric build guide discusses a viable option for your campaign by way of the Tempest Domain.
Our Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric build guide delves deeper into the Tempest Domain, which is bolstered by the use of lightning and thunder damage. We also have a Cleric class overview that takes note of ideal selections during character creation.
As an aside, we opted to focus on a build that avoids multiclassing. However, you're able to respec and change classes when you see fit, if you want more flexibility.
As cited in our overview, we're going to make the most out of the Cleric's capabilities. The class gains the benefits of magic spells by way of the Wisdom stat, as well as proficiencies in all armor types. We recommend the following for the Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric build:
For our Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric build guide, we note the spells that you should choose during character creation, making sure they're prepared for the long road ahead. For succeeding levels, we detail the top choices among spells.
Subclass:
Cantrips:
Class Features:
Subclass Feature:
Spells:
Since we'll primarily use thunder and lightning damage for our Baldur's Gate 3 Cleric build, the Create or Destroy Water spell can render a spot wet, which means enemies will be greatly afflicted by shocking effects.
Subclass Spells:
Spells:
Feat: Ability Improvement — Add +2 to your Wisdom; make sure you defeat Auntie Ethel so you can reach the 20 Wisdom cap.
Cantrip:
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