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OMG Homelander plays DnD , awesome

Yes please, if you find a build interesting, I want to hear about it. DPR isn't the only thing that makes an effective character.

I love to see death domain love! Tons of people sleep on this domain and I played one in a campaign and nobody could touch my sustained damage round after round. I've been telling my buddies for ages that the cleric is a damage dealer and now they know!

Thanks for helping my fav character come to life and become decent. The twilight cleric set that bar so high I never thought Kai would actually see a campaign. You're awesome!

Great stuff, man! I'd always had a hunch that Death Cleric was pretty crazy for sustained DPR, and this video validated that line of thought. It's also just my favorite class/subclass in terms of flavor.

Honestly glad that I found you late because it's so nice to binge these episodes such high quality even from the start thank you for your work

This was really great; I like especially that it's not one of the very well known optimized builds. I appreciated how much you emphasized that this (very) high damage was conditional on adjacent enemies. I think it might be good to offer some commentary on how likely that is in your experience, as well as DPR calculations against a single-target for comparison. One last thing: I was surprised you didn't mention that you can use your very powerful channel divinity on your spiritual weapon, since it is a melee attack. This gives this build surprising spike damage capability!

What a nice optimized vid, I'm currently running a goblin death domain cleric in our new campaign (currently lvl 2). I can use this as guide as I gain levels.

I too enjoy sustained damage builds, and humorously we have similar spreadsheets.

definitely my next cleric build. glad i found your videos this year!

Hey DND:O, loving your videos. Currently playing CoS and a party member was playing a light cleric. Anyway, he died level 1 to a Spectre's life drain ability, cannot believe I forgot to remind him about his warding flare ability, he would have lived! Being a Grave Cleric myself we gave him proper funeral rights at least. Thought i'd share, keep up the fantastic work.

You didn't mention animate dead! which you learn for free at level 5 as death domain cleric. You could summon some skeletons prior to a long rest and have them for the whole day while having all your spells slots available. You can use your first bonus action when casting spirit guardians to give them an attack command to "Kill these enemy creatures". Bam, extra damage each round for free. In addition, they can act as tanks for your group.

Love that you're giving us the averages.

Colby, watching you for the first time I find you to be a very pleasant person to watch. You quieter calm and semi monotone timbre I’d very pleasant to listen to. Hope you’re having a great day and I’m gonna enjoy the episode

AJAJAJAJAJ Gracias por mencionarme :D!, a sword and shield comparison (like the warrior/barbarian 2handed) about warrior and paladin sound prety good.

You were so pleased with 150 subscribers, and look at where you are now!

As a death domain you could also take sapping sting, which can be strong with reaper by potentially knocking prone 2 enemies

This video is one of my favorites I really like to come back to

Loved you video really gave me everything I was looking for when how to start a Death Cleric

I'm loving this series. Keep me in mind when you inevitably get big friend! And make characters that are optimized in more than just DPR. Maybe a few different sub-builds?

I'm currently building this character in a current campaign so excited to see it play out

Before this video I thought death cleric was useless. This layout and flavor sounds like fun. Thanks for this video!!

Love this build, it's so cool! Death cleric looks so fun, good sustained damage, options for burst, can do it with spells or weapons. I have a 2nd level paladin I might multiclass into death cleric (it would fit very well). Only one spell level behind full cleric, with optional smites for more versatility.

I know this video is 2 years old now, but I was looking into death clerics for a Strahd campaign and found this very helpful! I'm playing Firbolg for the +2 to wisdom and +1 to Str, using a glaive flavored as a scythe, and I ended up getting a free feat and taking find familiar to grab a raven -- that way if I need to pick up allies, I can send it to do that instead of having to leave the front line

Just found your channel this week and I'm loving it, great content. Personally I love the life cleric/magic initiate (druid) build. Titanic healing straight away and using thorn whip to pull creatures into my spirit guardians then clobber them with shillelagh + divine strike. Maybe a touch less dpr vs. toll the dead/reaper combo but still potent and hitting as many opponents with SG as possible adds up. Keep up the good work and thanks from the UK.

Just watched this all the way through, because i wanted to check something. Eleventh Episode "just topped 150 subscribers." Wow! How far you've come!

During the intro, you talk about Life Cleric with magic Initiate feat and Goodberry. Keep in mind that you couldn't use your spell slot for goodberry until you get 1 level of Druid, 2 level of Ranger or learn Goodberry with Magical Secret from Bard. RAW spellslots could only be use for spells that could be learn by your classes. A full cleric with Goodberry from Magic Initiate could only cast it 1 time per long rest. BTW great Podcast and keep doing different subject. I like the idea of doing different build like tank, support, healer, battlefield control, etc... will still doing a descent DPR so you aren't a dead weight when you aren't needed.

Awww so adorable. Colby so happy for 150 followers now at 56k! Awesome to see!

Just wanted to point out that Death Cleric can also offer some support through the Sapping Sting cantrip, potentially putting multiple enemies prone. The rogue in my party loves me for this but the ranger hates me XDDD The ranger has since decided to build melee instead.

After watching most of this channel's videos, seeing a straight class build is almost unsettling

At the beginning of the video you mentioned doing a healing build. I think there is more to healing in DND than just the healing spells. In fact, I think healing spells are the least efficient way of healing in 5e and should only be used in dire situations. You will get a lot more damage mitigation with temp hit points, using the Aid spell and Hero’s Feast to increase HP max, Polymorph & summoned creatures to soak up damage, preventing damage by imposing disadvantage, etc. I think it could be cool to look at a healing build that takes these methods into account. Maybe measure it by calculating a “hit points on the field” or “damage mitigation per-round”.

My dnd playstyle typically is supporty/buffer/battlefield control characters! So I’d love to see more of these videos instead of just dpr.

Alright! Building this concept this week for a new campaign! Taking FTR at lvl 1, then CLR the rest of the way.

thanks to your other video on the Gloomstalker my character Wick ¨Mashed potatoes Johnson¨McCree was born and has terrorized our short Campaign almost one-shotting everything, I will be adding this Build to that same campaign for a friend of mine tonight! cant wait to see the Face on our DM as we unleash both characters lol

Late to this episode, but I just wanted to say I'm glad you thought better of the boom mic screen competition with your very noggin in later shows. Also, great show.

I recently used a Death Cleric with roughly the same ideas, but I took the Metamagic Adept feat to gain two sorcery points, with which I could use twinned spell. This has been very beneficial for those Inflict Wounds novas, where you could do 2x 3d10 + Touch of Death on one of them (or maybe someone could justify it working on both of them). This is very powerful for campaigns where it will be unlikely that you'll reach a level higher than 5. At 5th level with the increased damage from cantrips, I used Chill Touch and split it to 4 targets, as reaper is something that triggers on something that _normally_ targets one creature. Thereby doing 4x 2d8 and thinning the herd, while having Spirit guardians and spiritual weapon up. Now I of course see that I could have just as well used Toll the Dead,. I used it very efficiently on a large orc raiding party and had the opportunity presented itself at 5th level, not 4th, I could have likely taken them all down alone. Now, I didn't take the feat at level 1 by going variant, but you could do that, meaning you'd be fairly dangerous at level 1 already. If I did the numbers right, this would mean that you can throw out a NecroNova(tm) for an additional 23~ necrotic damage on the first round and an additional 6 on the second at level 6. NecroNova(tm) also has a chance to crit, while Toll the Dead does not. This would of course require you to be in melee with at least 2 combatants. Anyway, my party was not happy with me, what with the melting of swathes of enemies and all. So my next character is a completely normal ranger with noothing special about them.

Best series … I’m binging your content bro 😎

Love what you're doing so far but I'd definitely be into other optimized builds that aren't just about sustained DPR. I definitely think there are other ways to optimize and create really effective characters. So, if you go that direction, I'm totally still with you.

Right now, I'm about this Fighter 1 x Stars Druid 2 x Cleric 17. Using star forms to have great concentration or heal extra. I really want to lean into life transference and vampiric touch.

Great 💪👍 And I think that its more applicable as it is not a multi-multi-class build.

I will be trying this build out in an upcoming campaign but with custom origin and going full cleric of kelemvor due to warcaster requirement at level 1. Ill probably take resilient in the future just to get that prof. Bonus and advantage. Lets hope all goes well :). Ty for posting this.

I bleed cleric. I'm currently playing an optimized Life Domain build (mostly Shepherd Druid) in a CoS campaign. And I've played Grave Domain and Arcana Domain as well. It is one of my all time favorite classes. Personally when I build a character I try to fill holes in the party composition. I will typically build my character after I know what everyone else is playing so I can attempt to cover any missed bases, and after that I will try to optimize my build to maximize the party synergy. Part of that is dealing decent damage myself, but I find it is more effective to sacrifice personal damage if it allows me to boost 2 or more allies' damage. I think it is entirely possible to have 4-5 character builds that aren't optimized in a vacuum for individual max damage, but rather for party synergy, and have them as a party out DPR the characters optimized for individual DPR. In lieu of Tasha's I think the Fallen Aasimar would be an excellent thematic AND mechanical race choice. Sure you don't get War Caster at level 1, but it is still very juicy. Personally, I don't like Death Domain. I feel like it is mechanically weak in that it has features that augment both melee and spell damage types. That said, I think if you wanted to truly optimize this character build, you'll need to take 2-5 levels of Ranger (depending on if you want Gloom Stalker and Extra Attack) Taking the Druidic Warrior fighting style would let you pick up Shillelagh. This will let you use wisdom instead of strength for attack and damage, and reduces the M.A.D. of the build. Going all the way to 5th level also gives you extra attack, and taking Gloom Stalker lets you add Wisdom to Initiative etc.. etc... I think it works well mechanically and thematically. This would also allow you to make much better use of Divine Strike, AND the Touch of Death: Channel Divinity option. As a half caster the levels in ranger slow down your spell slot progression a bit, but it's not as bad as taking levels in fighter.

I'll use this one against my players some day when they're higher lvl! Maybe a lvl 10 Death Cleric with minions as a mini-boss encounter.

I've got a bit of a different take on this build, and I would really like to know how it stacks up numbers wise. It seemed to me that most of the value from the death domain cleric came from the first 6 levels. Most of the damage comes from 3rd level spells and a cantrip, and the level 6 feature lets you ignore resistance to necrotic damage. If I multiclass with another full caster, then I won't lose any progression with spell slots. I decided a sorcerer, specifically a shadow magic sorcorer, was the way to go. I also thought about trying a different race, specifically a Fallen Aasimar. Necrotic shroud allows you to add a good bit of damage to your attacks for a full minute. This takes an action to activate, which is another reason I went sorcerer. Quicken spell can be used to cast Spirit guardians as a bonus action on the same turn as activating necrotic shroud. Quicken spell will also let us use Toll the dead twice in a round instead of once when the extra damage is needed, although I wouldn't factor that into sustained DPR. Start level 1 as a Shadow Magic Sorcerer. This gives proficiency in constitution saving throws. Then I would probably put my next 6 levels into Death Domain Cleric, for access to all of the great spells and features this build relies on. After that, getting to level 6 shadow magic sorcerer is a must. This gives us a hound of ill omen, which can be summoned as a bonus action and can impose disadvantage on saving throws to its target. Being able to impose disadvantage somewhat consistently to a single target should help the single target DPR of this build, while also still being able to affect secondary enemies that are nearby. The Necrotic shroud ability of the fallen Aasimar will also improve damage rather significantly. From this point I would probably put all of my points into sorcerer levels to get more sorcery points. You can also have multiple hounds of ill omen at a time, as long as you have sorcery points to spend. You could potentially use your hounds to impose disadvantage on both of your targets at once.

Wow remember when these episodes were under an hour? That was so nice.

Fun and useful non sustained DPR builds would be great. I rarely full optimize my builds as I once did because my style of play has changed drastically to enjoying RP and exploration almost as much if not more than combat.

I've been really enjoying your content and I'm slowly going through the process of watching every single one of your videos. I wouldn't mind seeing other "optimized" builds that don't entirely focus on damage per se. The best healer, support buffer, DPR, tank, and many more options out there lie in wait for experimentation. There's also an idea that you could try and make condensed optimized builds where you focus strictly on a Subclass with no Multiclass options. This may give some leeway to players whose DMs are against Multiclassing, or possibly only allow players to Multiclass if it'd fit the character (I've met those DMs before). Great video as always.

Death Cleric 18 / Necromancer Wizard lvl 2 Fallen Aasimar Build is focused on suping up the vampiric touch spell to the max.

I think Divine Strike works with spiritual weapon and that means it works with Touch of Death later when it does necrotic. I'm like 70% sure edit: I think Inescapable Destruction/Touch of Death/ Divine Strike all work with spiritual weapon. I think the idea with the whole class is Action: Toll of the dead BA: Spiritual Weapon Concentration: Spirit Guardians Vampiric Touch if low HP

i just became a big fan of your show. i have been watching your series in order. i like the format. not everything has to be about DPR. one thing i would like you to do is to have a have series on which spells not to take, or which builds are totally useless.

Would love to see a Support build

I love the DPR and am really enjoying your channel. Other things that might be fun could be ways to make non combat subclasses like eloquence bard decent in combat besides buffing. Optimized builds for shadow sorcerer or lore bards. I loved the bladesinger build, I took lucky to avoid crits one lvl of fighter for defense and a shield when you run out of blade songs.

Soothing voice. Excellent and fun character ideas. Pretty. Might be a fave content creator lol

Picking up Spell Sniper or Magic Initiate for the increased range and access to extra cantrips like Chill Touch, Thorn Whip, and Sapping Sting could be very handy for added flexibility on the battlefield. You get to attack AC (which lets you roll with advantage and crit sometimes), WIS, and CON while potentially nullifying healing and knocking down multiple foes at once. Thorn whip isn't the greatest for immediate damage but it could pull a foe in to position for you to really start ramping up your damage on subsequent turns. The increased range from Spell Sniper nearly doubles the area in which you can target adjacent foes, but Magic Initiative can give you more cantrips and a spell to boot, which could always be used to cast Find Familar to deliver touch soella or give you or an ally advantage on an attack each round by spamming the help action with it.

Guiding Bolt is also a good use of a first level spell slot if your enemies have a high wisdom save or if Toll the Dead hasn’t scaled up yet. 4d6 and advantage against that enemy until the start of your next turn is ridiculous for a first level slot.

Blessed Strike enables additional damage on cantrips!

Love playing my Death Cleric, casting Inflict Wounds with a range of up to 120ft. How? - Variant human to get Find Familiar - owl (DM agreed for me to play the familiar on my turn, rather than have it's own initiative) - My Action: Hold inflict Wounds until owl is within range. - Owl then fly's within range, I use my re-action to cast Inflict Wounds through my owl therefore also using the owls re-action. - The owl then uses it's Action to dash and fly away, using it's flyby feature to avoid Opportunity ATKs. Generally I treat this as having a 60ft range, so I can keep my owl at a safe distance post ATK.

I made a death cleric with a dip of 2lvls in necromancer and now whenever i kill people i also heal myself. Plus I have shield, find familiar, silvery barbs and absorb elements. I also went Mark of shadow Elf so i got Elven Accuracy and some really nice spells from my Mark (Greater Invisibility is pretty neat!!!)...

would love an updated version with all the new stuff

I know I am late to this, but I am currently playing a death domain cleric of Kelemvor. My character is a protector Aasimar, also planning on going a bit into hexblade.

I would like a series where you take the classes and optimize it to deal with some of the shortcomings of that particular sub class. For instance, the war cleric has long been seen as a sub optimal and even sub par or just not quite as good as the other cleric sub classes. So how can you take that class and that sub class and use either feats or multi classing or something to help you get the most out of that class. That’s just one example of a sub class that need some work. I’m sure there are others.

Hi, new in the channel and find your videos facinating. If it wouldn't bother you too much, videos with tactical optimization, or like you said most healing and so on would be great. Even dummier builds like a grapple focus build, that doesn't go for damage but create enough mess for your teammates would be something for some of us I think!

Found it.. watching it now!!!

The optimized builds are awesome, I really enjoy watching. How would you build a paladin to make him as strong as possible? I see them multi-classed with warlocks a lot but is that the only way to make an optimized paladin? Would more spell slots for smites make them stronger or some concentration spell to buff their attacks?

I've played a death cleric for five years. I recently multiclassed into a warlock (the firend) so I am now level 8 and 1 respectively. Cleric of talona so we subbed NEcrotic damage for poison with my channel divinities. Im curious to see how you would 'optimize' a cleric + warlock build.

Newish to dnd 5e. Mostly play pf but i came across this vid and now i want to play this. A few questions, 1) reaper cantrip chill touch then swap between toll and chill depending on whats lower wis sv or ac viable? 2) in 2.0 version, do you still recommend fighter dip? 3) would you strive to one day get a very rare illusionist bracers for 4 tolls or would your prefer to focus on a rare amulet of the devote?

Death Cleric is great ... Would LOVE to see a Necromancer build ... Race and all

Have you considered the Fallan Aasimar, with its Necrotis Shroud for this build? Or is it outside of the scope?

Hey there, dpr is great and all but other types of builds would be great too, i mean, the namesake of the channel is dnd optimized. that doesn't necessarily mean just DPR. any type of build is fine like a warforged cleric that has massive AC (not my idea but i still think it's cool) or a buff/debuff oriented necromancer instead of raising dead. can't wait to see what you come up with!

I'm thinking of playing a 11 Way of the Long Death/9 Death Domain. Think that would be interesting to play

I like Nuke builds. Prime example one build I always wanted to play to level 20 but have yet to do is... Rouge - 11 - Assassin Fighter - 5 - Echo Knight - Defense Ranger - 4 - Gloom Stalker - Archery First turn 6 attacks upto around 5 - 800 damage on a single target. Wood Elf with Elven accuracy and Sharpshooter and Alert.

Great build!! I am fairly new to DnD and have a logistical question about it. Early in the video you mentioned if you were playing it you'd start as fighter. Say you did start as fighter, would you just continue the build as is from when you hit level 2 (ie, could you start as fighter and then just following the build video as is from when you hit level 2)? Or does starting fighter change quite a bit of how it works? Thanks Colby!

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What about a video on party composition and how to play off the various class / subclass features? For example, what would be the synergy of a team up of Twilight Cleric, Bladesinger Wizard with a Shadow Blade, and Gloomstalker Ranger? I would find that sort of analysis intriguing!

I also did a death cleric build There is more then one way to do this build and it’s all dependent on if you want to go straight spell damage or want to add in weapon attacks. For straight spell damage there is two build I like. You could go 12 lvls death cleric , 6 lvls evocation wizard for potent cantrip, and first 2 lvls Fighter for fighting style, and action surge, on top of con saves . The other pure caster build is actually a more warlock build, but it’s 14 lvls undead warlock, 6 lvls death cleric. The cleric / warlock build is more focused around necrotic damage giving immunity/ resistance to necrotic ant the same time bypassing enemies necrotic resistance, also gives fear immunity, physical damage resistance , and lets you heal from your necrotic damage, and gaining hex is nice too. Though spiritual guardians is better focus on. The most damage though is not going pure spell damage. That build is 8 lvls death cleric, 6 lvls bladesinger wizard for its extra attack. 3 lvls hunter ranger for horde breaker, and 3 lvls echo knight fighter. Cast up cast spiritual weapon for bonus attack, and haste spell, but before you get haste get dragon’s breath spell and cast it on your familiar. A cone straight down would be in this case a 15ft radius. Since it’s a save spell and not an attack your familiar can use it with it’s action for free as far as character is concerned just using your concentration and you can turn an owl or even an imp into a mini dragon of sorts. Though for imp under a warlock it’s better to use with pact of the chain master ashardalon’s stride, then you can have it run invisible catching things on fire as it goes. Bladesinger’s extra attack lets you replace an attack with a cantrip which goes great with Reaper feature, and the attack with a weapon as the other part of its extra attack lets you use horde breaker which is the same as reaper , but with a weapon attack. For that weapon attack use heavy crossbow with sharpshooter / crossbow expert. As for the echo knight since you used an extra attack it lets you attack one additional time with the echo. With haste that is yet another weapon attack. So in all it looks like potentially 7 attacks , twice with a cantrip, then action surge if it’s up and attack another 7 times for a total of 14 attacks. Then bonus action attack with an up cast spiritual weapon for the 8th / 15th attack that turn.

Rewatched this because I'm thinking of playing a Cleric in my friends campaign next month or so, was wondering on your thoughts (or if you'd do a vid) on a Trickster Cleric Assassin Rogue multiclass, to me going 17 Cleric 3 Rogue would be cool due to having several duplicates and the assassin feature for sneak attacks

Would this build benefit from taking the Telekinesis feat at lvl 1 to be able to push enemies closer to each other to benefit from the reaper class feature?

I took my first lvl in death domain. Took telekinetic to help always keep two enemies within 5ft of each other. And then went wizard. Fantastic damage plus healing word for emergency. Essentially double cantrip damage. Love the build personally

In really interested in using the Grave Cleric Channel Divinity that causes vulnerability for its 2X damage. Either fighter Action Surge or Sorcerer Quicken, then dropping a Smite on it from Paladin. Could be more interesting than Spirit Guardians

Yoooo with tashas this got a buff, blessed strikes for another d8 damage

Great video. Love Clerics. Except for the Death Domain specifics, this cleric build would work for most domains. Always upcast Spirit Guardians as high as you can! Add the Spiritual Weapon and good cantrip attack. Also, if you're not going to lvl 20, consider a dip into sorcerer or wizard to pick up SHIELD + ABSORB ELEMENTS for added defense and 4 extra Cantrips for versatility.

Something to take note of vampiric touch along with your channel divinity is a nice single target leech and burst all in one since the spell only mentions the necrotic dmg you do in the attack not what is done by the spell and your channel divinity is a rider effect just like smites. Mike Mearls also seems to agree with the interaction but of course your dm can veto.

Hey, just looking to play this type of character with fighter to start as you mentioned. Would you do 1 or 2 levels of fighter to start?

Can channel divinity and divine strike be used with spiritual weapon? If not, maybe that is a good thing to ask your dm for instead of potent spellcasting.

alright so heres an idea for you to think about, lets do an optimized counter build! multiclass- hexblade warlock and cleric with the subclass of your choice! i have one build ready for our next campaigns launch so if you do one i’ll totally share my character sheet!

With Spirit guardians active, and a bonus action being used to move+attack with your spiritual weapon, can you still cast a 1 action spell? I am curious to see this combo play itself out especially if I can throw inflict wounds on top lol

Resilient con is a great feat for clerics.

Thank you for making these videos. I'm new to 5e and these have been very helpful and informative. If I want to make a light domain cleric, would much of this still be relevant? I would simply swap toll the dead for sacred flame on single target and word of radiance on multiple targets. In know it would lower the DPR, but I like the idea of the fire cleric dropping fireballs on people.

Greta stuff Colby, can we see a grappler build? For control purposes perhaps? Off the top of my head I’m thinking square circle pugilist with grappler feat or something.

Dual wielding Tortle Death Cleric worked like a charm 18ac for being a Tortle Two attacks because of the dual wielding When stacked with sentinal feat and spirit guardians he became a wall that nothing could get through to the other members of the party. Plus you could add some Hex blade Warlock for a truly devastating to a single target.

Well done

so what would you say is the most damaging cleric sub class in your opinion?

Cleric cleric cleric cleric - I love cleric ideas.

If you were to twin cast toll the dead, would you able to effect 3 or 4 target's? I.E. 3+ mobs are within 5' of each other (either in a group or side by side). Twin cast TTD, target two that are 5' away from the 3rd. Single damage on 2 and X2 on the 3rd. Or single damage on 2 groups of 2.

Does Reaper work with opportunity attacks (If i went warcaster + sentinel)? An enemy attempts to escape my spirit guardians...I use sentinel and cast my toll the dead on them as an OA, does that trigger Reaper that my OA actually will hit potentially 2 enemies?

Can we use the channel divinity via the soul weapon spell? We are making a melee attack through the soul weapon.

Wouldn’t it be a good idea to also take Chill Touch for niche situations, such as longer range? It seems like it would work well in this build, and it might be better not to base all attacks on an opponent failing their Wisdom save.

What do you believe the best undead Killer subclass is for each class?