Full Tempest domain cleric with Magic initiate for Sorc, Warlock, or Wizard to get Booming Blade can work too.

Hear me out here... dont have high strength (dont dump it though) and instead go hexblade and put it all into charisma. So Thor originally had his powers taken away and only had his strength when wielding the hammer. A hexblade fits this perfectly, have the hammer be your pact weapon and then mix in the levels of storm sorcerer using booming blade instead of extra attack.

Pick your favorite Cantrip: Umm... did you forget Booming Blade exists?

Every time he says Second Wind and Action Surge are long rest abilities I die a little inside. (They're short rest.)

Huh. I'd have just assumed Tempest Cleric of Himself.

Now, down the line, I think Oath of Glory Paladin would be a great fit for Thor.

Very good arguments for Storm Sorcerer. I was upset you didn't go Tempest Cleric until you reached that.

After watching this earlier vid, I think it's really incredible how much your personal style and format has improved and refined over the years. I always look forward to your videos!

What about a *Storm Herald [Sea] Barbarian* ??? You get Storm Aura at lvl 3 Storm Soul at lvl 6

this a great series, thanks for taking the time to put it together!

Air Genasi could be a interesting alternate race for this build. As well, Storm Sorcerer/ Vengeance Paladin. To quote the PHB 'Vengeance Paladin, also sometimes called avengers or dark Knights'. Alternately Storm Herald Barbarian is another good choice.

Would have thought Tempest Cleric + Barbarian would be best. Holiness, lightning damage added to your weapon, flight, control weather, and a couple of other lightning/thunder based buffs from Cleric, and Berserker Rage, tankiness while topless, Con Saves, etc from Barbarian.

This worked out really well. All the abilities covered, stats match character strengths and weaknesses ( Loki says, "Are you ever NOT going to fall for that?" and lots of options for melee nd thunder/lightning damage. You even map the character progress (not the god of hammers, as he initially thinks).

I know this video has been out for awhile but thanks, I think you unintentionally solved my build trying to combine Hexblade, Echo Knight, and Shadow Sorcerer

Storm herald barbarian, storm sorcerer and tempest cleric combo feels like it'd fit this a bit better with Air Genasi as the race.

Love what you do bro.

Thank the KZfaq algorithm Gods for showing me to your channel. I used this infovid as a template for a Hill Dwarf Storm Knight build. Thanks Tulok!

I just found your channel. I LOVE your content man

Let's do Hawkeye! Our favorite forgotten Avenger!

My only tweak for this would be swap out true strike for Catapult. It's an excellent spell that launches any object below five lbs within 60 feet of you 90 feet in a straight line. It also forces any victim to make a dex save or take 3d8 bludgeoning damage. This sounds incredibly useful for throwing Thor's hammer, and it would give the weapon pact more use!

Now, just get the Hammer of Thunderbolts to have Mjolnir with extra lightning spells, Belt of Giant Strength for Thor's belt that increases his strength by a lot more and Gauntlets of Ogre Power and you can really roleplay as Thor.

If your DM allows you to play a Thor meme build, he might also allow you to replace the Aasimar damage with lightning.

The Bifrost fight scene from Ragnarok brings to mind the storm herald barbarian path (specifically sea storm), where he is attacking physically and lightning is just arcing off of his body and striking his foes.

I feel like Paladin would work for Thor also. It would synergize well with a sorcerer and he could easily take an oath like Oath of Glory, Oath of Devotion, Oath of the Crown, or even Oath of the Watchers. I feel like either oath of devotion or oath of the watchers would make the most sense for Thor though.

I am building a Tempest Cleric / Storm Sorcerer at the moment. I kind of just started the first couple levels in Tempest Cleric for Destructive Wrath, then I’m planning on taking the rest Sorcerer. This is more for the max damage lightning or thunder spells than anything else. I *did* think of Thor once or twice, but I wasn’t really looking to copy him specifically. My character is a Tiefling and I plan to take the Infernal Constitution feat so that he will eventually be resistant to Fire, Cold, Poison, Thunder, *and* Lightning.

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Loved the video and the build. One question: Flavor wise, have you considered Paladin - Oath of the Crown + Sorcerer?

I feel like pact of the blade is better for the magic seasoning for Thor. First it opens your martial subclass up as you don't need EK (I'd go champion or battle master as they are both on theme and help make his raw strength better) Second it offers Odin as a celestial patron (as his magic sealed the power to the hammer) or a flavor rework of the kraken (with gm approval) which is nice, though I'm going to be using a presumed kraken rework (Thor's godly essence is the "patron due to Odin's magic on mjolnir). 10 levels of warlock gets us 5th level spells, the most important patron feature, and access to the invocations needed. First at level 6 you get tentacles from the kraken that work as two extra slappers adding 1d4 bludgeon as an option as well as a charisma based grapple, these can be reflavored as lashes of lightning that strike like arms for the god of thunder. Then at level 10 you get resistance to lightning and thunder as well as ignoring difficult terrain. Next is the invocations, we get 5, two from the kraken and 3 base. Overcharged let's you ignore resistance and turns immunity into half damage. Then is Eldritch storm, which allows you to choose lightning or thunder damage instead of force and adds melee attack chance on 5ft for lightning and wanted things up for 120ft for thunder. Otherworldly leap let's you do the hammer spin jump by casting jump at will, Eldritch spear/ repelling blast as your Eldritch blast is important and can always use a buff. Thirsting blade makes your melee better by adding two attacks Everytime you use one attack action. So 10 champion fighter 10 kraken* bladelock, can't say how it'd fare comparatively but it removes the int casting while still trying to stay on character

Two levels of Tempest Cleric & 18 levels of Storm Sorcerer. 😁

I used a variation of this build for a game but instead of an Eldritch Knight I used Path of the Storm Herald Barb and Outlander background instead of Noble. And my dm let me mod the fallen Aasimar to do lightning and thunder instead of necrotic, and made resistant to thunder and lightning instead of radiant and necrotic. It was hella fun to play

Please please please do Scarlet Witch, love her from the Comics! She and Vision were my favorites sir.

I built Thor as a Storm Cleric, it just felt more appropriate. You still get all the weapon and armor you could want, you can put him in plate, and stack his defense so he's hard to hit, you can have d8 for hit die so you dont have to worry about losing out on health from magic spells, and taking the highest con and tough feat can give you 7 hit points per level. I also talked to my DM about changing the channel divinity to something more Thor in character, since Clerics tend to get an ability worthy of a 3rd level spell slot, she agreed a 3rd level spell wouldn't be out of bounds for what a channel divinity can do, so Lightning Bolt became a twice per short rest channel divinity and felt very, very in character for Thor. I also managed to get a necklace of fireball, but asked if it could be reflavored to lightning bolt instead, they agreed. Allowing me to essentially wrap it around my hammer, and channel it as if it was my hammer casting the one time use lightning bolts. What they didn't expect, was that I would then use my second channel divinity to max out lightning damage. This lead to some rather epic moments of insane damage. Of course this required DM cooperation to reflavor, change damage types, spells, and while none of it made me any stronger than any other cleric, it definitely felt more thor like and made the game a much better experence for everyone involved.

I think hexblade warlock may be more powerful than eldritch knight. You still get cantrips and arguably more spell slots. You also get a better weapon bond and use charisma for the spells.

Sylvan/Treant for the bonus language! He speaks Groot!! :D

I built him as a Tempest Cleric with a Returning Light Hammer (Mjolnir) and a Battleaxe (Stormbringer). All of my cleric spells are either Thunder/Lightning themed damage spells or buffs, I also included healing word as he can inspire others to carry on a bit longer when he chooses his words well. We're only second level and I'm figuring it out as we go so that's all I've got so far and the hammer isn't returning yet, but as soon as we are acquiring appropriately leveled loot for that my DM will allow us to find one. Not sure if I'll take some ideas from this video going forward or if I'll try something different.

I'm definitely playing this in my next game (though I might ask the dm if a can switch the "Radiant" from "radiant consumption" for lightning)

I personaly have chosen the Cleric(Tempest Domain) and either Fighter(Champion) or Barbarian(Storm Herald), for full lighting and thunder devastation and Divine punishment.... I liked it alot

This would work great with hammer of thunderbolts

Like others, I argue towards tempest cleric with maybe a dip into barbarian; much more tankiness (which is a must for a god), more flavor because of class based weather effects and lightning blasts (also charged into a weapon), a flying speed at Lv 17 and divine magic instead of arcane.

Love this build! Any changes to make with new content? New campaign coming up soon!

*This player comes to the table* Everyone else:You guys are so screwed now! Edit:Had to fix a typo

Great build mate!! I am very keen to use it in the next campaign we play. I was hoping to ask a few questions. Is there anything you'd change to optimise the build for play? Is there a way to lean more heavily towards one caster type (ie INT or otherwise) without sacrificing too much? Do you think using stat boosts instead of elemental dept feats would take too much damage away from the lightning spells? Thanks!

I would love to see Black Widow!

Black Widow would be sick!!

I get the choice of eldritch knight, but I would be more inclined to say battle master. Being able to sweep the leg and then zap, or disarm and then cast shatter. I think that would work, maybe, shatter can't be used on anything worn or carried. Then burst of thunder damage.

I have a similar type of concept with my dragonborn warlock

I went with Protector Aasimar, as I don't like the self-damage element of the Scourge Aasimar's Radiant damage blast.

I would’ve gone for the hex blade warlock it just makes more sense thematically and mechanically

I like how he'd rather tell us "Do whatever you want" then take Lightning Lure.

Will you please make a odin character in dnd?

Hexblade warlock pact of the blade (his powers comes from Mjölnir in the comics) and maybe a few levels fo fighter for extra ASIs and feats. I'd go Hexblade 12/Fighter 8. Champion is the obvious choice since Thor was the god of warriors and battle as opposed to being a god of warfare or strategy.

I think you could replace fighter with warlock though you loose action surge the paxt magic does the same thing as weapon bond and it is a cha caster instead of an int caster. Plus xanthars gives you 2 attacks in invocation form

Wouldn't the light cantrip be to help people who can't see in the dark, it's to be nice to your party

how about ninjas like ninjak or snake eyes

I feel like Paladin Storm Sorcerer would've been better

Could you try an Odin build (comics or myths, we don’t know enough of MCU Odin)?

You could do tempest cleric 8 with fighter (champion or eldritch knight)

Could this build work if I went with War Forged to try and make Red Tornado in D&D?

if you could have any weapon with a lightning or thunder attribute, which would you pick?

Axe wielder with lighting.

how do i build this on 5e character sheet app. wont let me multiclass into sorc

I'm doing this build with a Dragonborn that has Blue Dragon lineage but wants to do good.

storm caller barbarian for the warrior rage/lightning?

Snake eyes from gi Joe how would you build that

Was thinking of making a Mountain Dwarf Fighter/Sorc using EK and DB. Same playstyle, just replace God of Thunder for Short Angry Flaming Golden Dragon Man

So what I did was make Thor a tempest cleric, for you see I am a strong believer of the "rule of fun". So I may have mix and matched the spells given to the subclass to fit Thor better. I then added rune knight and chose Goliath instead of aasimar. My reasoning was Thor is known as a giant slayer so reskin Goliath since the abilities are in character and the Goliath language since he hunts them. I also changed the fire chains from rune knight to lightning.

This definitely got more onto this build than tempest cleric. But I do thing two levels into tempest cleric works well for your channel divinity to Max out thunder or lightning damage. As well as level 1 you can get that reaction lightning damage that you went to sorcerer 14 to. Maybe a bit less fighter to add cleric? I think it would really add to it!

Do Sophitia from Soul Calibur! She would be fun to play. And Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy 7!

No booming blade seems like an oversight

"-A magical hammer that will "pull us off"..." lol i gotchu man

Would it be viable to go tempest cleric to max lightning and thunder damage and multiclass into sorcery?

Also you don't really need intelligence. Just focus on abjuration spells. Since you never go above first level wizard spells, go with protection from evil and absorb elements to reveal your toughness and experience fighting other realms creatures. Until you get sorcerer 6 and fly, you don't have a lot of concentration spells so protection is a nice enhancement. I flavor shield being Thor spinning his hammer to block attacks. If you want earth tremor for the shock and awe of it (Even though you have thunderclap which does more damage at will) you can get it with your sorcerer levels and use the higher sorcerer DC instead. (Or don't take it. You later grab erupting earth which is superior version of the same effect, i.e. Thor smashing his hammer on the ground to blast multiple opponents. )

How do you have 60D8 for Q Spl?

If we're going more accurate to Norse lore, Thor is in fact part-Giant. He was also a red-headed absolute unit. So Giant Soul Sorcerer from UA could work. And to my understanding, he was a brutal warrior who piously served Odin and took no prisoners. So Paladin/Sorcerer comes to mind. Maybe Crown or Conquest Paladin mixed with Giant Sorcerer (probably Storm Giant). Bug your DM to give you a Dwarven Thrower and you're good. Fits lore-wise as well.

Y'know, those jokes about his hammer pulling him off are more relevant after Love and Thunder

What about a V for Vendetta build?

I think you can make a Thor, maybe not as good as this one, with tempest cleric / storm sorcerer

I actually kinda need the Hulk so that'd be real cool

Attacking twice is always better then advantage on 1 attack with true strike

Episodes 8 and 9 of the Fire Emblem stats: Luigi and Thor. First, the skinny Mario Bro. Luigi has a pretty basic build of being strong in brawling and reason. He doesn't have much in the way of weakness besides authority since he's always second fiddle. Based on the Mario and Luigi series, Luigi tends to be the tank between the two brothers, and that will be reflected here. Next, the god of thunder. Thor's best weapons are axes (both of his weapons count as axes here) and reason for all that lightning. His budding talent is in authority because he eventually works up to being Asgard's ruler. His weakness is in heavy armor because that conducts electricity. His magic, strength, and HP are great but he has bad resistance.

Okay, but what if I want to play as Thor, God of Oak Trees?

This needs an update for Blood Hunter

I would have used the Path of the Storm Herald, with a magical hammer item

Please do Black Widow, we need more rogues in the world.

barbarian, sorcerer. Barbarian for the storm herald and storm sorcery from the sorcerer

Honestly replacing the fighter levels with levels in Valour or Swords bard might be better, more spells and you don’t have to worry about intelligence. You also get the benefit of more skills and expertise.

There is a subclass I found called the oath of thunder that I think resembles thor

If you wanted to go with comic book Thor he would be a hexblade warlock and storm sorcerer multiclass

You seem to have forgotten both booming blade (booming hammer) and lightning lure. 3d8 thunder (+ weapon damage) or lightning damage (and a pull effect) at will should be worth something, No? Eldritch knight 7 to still get both attacks. Also gust of wind or dust devil for storm effects and stuff Thor has done in the comics anyway.

That 1 dislike is thanos

You can get Hammer of Thunderbolts, Gauntlets of Ogre Power, and a Belt of Giant Strength for a 30 Strength. That means you'll probably be using a maul rather than a warhammer though.

Unnnnnh I'm so torn between Black Widow and the Hulk.... Can you do both? Eventually? Please? I guess if I haaaad to choose, it would be for my girl, Black Widow. Gimme that OP Shocking Grasp.

"It's not like your hammer is going to be lifting anyone else" ...*coughEndgamecough*

Do Frollo of the hunchback of notre dame

What about Conqueror Paladin?

i would have done the tempest cleric stuff instead of thiis. Also prob only 3 lvl in eldirth knight would have been better. you very much only cast spells and the fighting is the backup + usefull for trash mobs. als would have went with only 1 elemental adapt.

Pls do liliana from Magic the gathering

Barbarian zealot with hammer of thunderbolts

Anybody tried this build? Is it actually competitive?

I know this is an old video... but why didn't you go with Paladin 6 instead?