A popular choice and one I definitely considered. Ultimately the extra level and worse stats swayed me towards the fighter but I do envy that max damage blast!

I played a 2 tempest cleric 6 storm sorcerer. I crit on an inflict wounds I was up casting to 3 level, I transmuted it to lightning damage and used channel divinity to deal 100 lightning damage. The villain we were fighting didn't stand a chance

@@reedhammel1158 RAW you shouldn't have been able to do that. Transmute spell only works on spells that are one of the elemental damage types.

I assumed he would've taken paladin. Given the character has the str for heavy armor and cha for sorcerer so they already meet the multiclassing requirements. And 2 levels counts as 1 level of Caster, plus if we quicken a spell, we could still attack and smite

Tempest Cleric6/Storm Sorc6. Heavy armor, Max lit/thund dmg 2/short rest, push large or smaller creatures 10ft EVERY time you deal lit dmg. Transmute metamagic opens the door for all kinds of fun. Make an Acid Sphere lightning and push a group twice. I unhorsed 6 riders with a lightning scorching ray.

I forget his name, Robilliard maybe? But he was a wizard in the Drizzt novels. He'd sit in a chair and use his ring of gusts to propel their pirate hunting ship. He used fireballs to create steam screens too. Magic used indirectly with creative effects is the best.

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@@ThatOtherGuyOverThere that too :P

Whoa! Slow down, Palpatine!

If it sounds fun then I'm sure it'll be awesome 👍

Challenge accepted 🤣

I honestly couldn't tell you, sorry. But I think if you Google storm sorcerer it shows up 👍

@@DnD_Daily Thanks. Solid builds as always. You have a good practical build channel. stuff you could actually play in a real game instead of in theory . Quite refreshing

Glad you enjoy! Great to have you as a part of the community!

Fighter for the heavy armor proficiency

Correction: forgot they nerfed channel divinity to level 6. Still insane though

If you're going that route, it's better to ditch storm sorcerer entirely and go either tempest cleric or evoker with a two-level dip in the other. I'd personally go tempest X/evo 2, but that's just me. Being a dwarf lets you dump str while wearing heavy armor without penalty, and you still get the cornerstone abilities of either class: channel divinity and sculpt spell. Tasha's custom origin rules lets you start with a 17 Int or Wis, 13 in the other to meet multiclass prereqs, and your 17 Con because mountain dwarves get +2/+2. From there, all you need is metamagic adept to transmute and maximize any elemental damage spell in the game, without harming allies.

@@eacaraxe Yours isn't a bad build, but it adjusts from the Blaster aspect. Storm Sorc allows for damage every casting while Tempest requires your use of either a Reaction or your Channel Divinity. One is resource intensive and the other isn't. From an attribute sense, this combination plays out well, but Clerics are meant to be more tanky than Blasters and less mobile, which the original build is based on. It's a totally different play style matching two very unique build styles.

@@seanjaskowiak3407 Heart of the Storm only triggers upon casting a leveled spell that deals lightning or thunder damage, so it's not damage on every cast. It's a trivial amount of damage that scales poorly, especially for the resource cost and having to be in reach attack range. Spirit Guardians alone has comparable damage, with better resource efficiency and much greater impact on action economy. THEN you can start doing cheeky stuff, like dropping grease in your SG range and lightning luring/V-warping enemies into it, or mind slivering to nerf saves against grease or SG. Gets even funnier once you have war caster, and you're luring or slivering as your opportunity attack should enemies TRY to get away. Which addresses the bigger point: "blaster" is a poor character concept around which to build. Yeah, casters can nova, but at the end of the day you HAVE to have utility and control options to shine, especially if those control options synergize with the damage you're already doing. As far as mobility, "skirmishing" is incredibly overrated, even suboptimal to the point of not recommendable. Tabletop Builds has an article with the requisite math demonstrating this. Casters are always better off relying on chokepoint/killbox tactics with control spells. But if you must, Longstrider is a first-level spell that matches tempestuous magic's bonus movement, and doesn't require concentration or casting a leveled spell every round.

@eacaraxe I'm not disagreeing with you. Cleric is generally a better all-around class, but it isn't the purpose of the video, which is Storm Sorcerer and blaster. Thus, I worked under those guidelines. If we were doing an actual "Lightning Tank," tempest cleric would be a necessity, but we aren't. We are doing a mobile, lightning based, skirmisher. It's a different concept entirely.

@@seanjaskowiak3407 The build presented isn't as you describe it, though. It's a frontline build with mobility options for repositioning, not "skirmishing". Otherwise, there's no point to building for AC, and you'll be far more successful leaning into races with mobility options that CAN end a turn outside monsters' engagement ranges -- one of the winged races, centaur, tabaxi, or even harengon would be preferable. Harengon would actually be fantastic for this sort of thing; PB to initiative, and bunny hop is straight superior to tempestuous magic. Instead, you're going for mountain dwarf, which has a single racial mobility option you're not even using, and a base speed of 25...to get medium armor proficiency for free. It's the worst of all possible worlds; you won't have enough AC to be sufficiently defensive, not enough mobility to actually "skirmish", and as a consequence you'll bleed first-level slots (and sorcery points) from having to shield practically every combat round, limiting damage options. Under those circumstances, you're actually better off forgetting evoker and sculpt spell, and going with bladesinger...at which point mountain dwarf isn't the preferable dwarven lineage choice, hill dwarf is. With that build, mountain dwarves' racial armor proficiencies have no value but hill dwarves' extra HP will. If you're picking mountain dwarf, you need to lean into what the race actually has to offer to be effective, and that means building a "lightning tank". This is a case example of why "skirmisher" is a fake role, because trying to build for anything means you build for nothing. You either build for frontline, or ranged.

That is a strategy, but also having a staff in your hand can count as both an arcane focus and a quarterstaff, and having an arcane focus allows you to perform somatic components in that hand

Get Warcaster as a bonus feat, flavor wise say you were in combat before. Enables you to cast without somatic components

A staff can be your arcane focus, so you can perform somatics with that hand

@@DnD_Daily arcane focus is only for material , somatic required one hand or warcaster feat

@@DnD_Daily This only applies to S spells that also have the M component, RAW and RAI. But it darn tooting ain't RAF. 😄