The BEST CLERIC in Baldur's Gate 3 - [Updated] Shadowheart Honour Build Guide

New sub here, loved the video

Hi, noob question here ... I have not been playing that long, first playthrough and still act 1 and all party are level 5. This was my first effort at respeccing any of them and having done so, am a bit confused about the battle rotations. The AOE effects from Shadowheart of Ice or fire would seem to then limit the options of the melee members of my group? Or am I missing something?

Very helpful, compared to most BG3 videos that just spout info whithout explaining why.

Question...If you do that one level into Sorcerer, do you need to bring charisma up to 10 or can you still tank it to 8 ???

Why does it look like your PC is running 10fps..?

What a great build my friend, as usual. Appreciate your insight and work on these builds.

Bedankt

I just reached level five and only have 9 spells i can prepare, what do i replace for level 3 spells?

as a console player i can guarantee that hurl flame is the worst on console.
its a easy fix that they could have don't. by making a second spell to produce and hurl flame in one move.

currently when you produce flame. a new temp spell is created, which doesn't get added to your wheel. meaning that you have to go to a empty slot customize it. find the spell then use the spell.
then the spell disappears so you have to do that all over again.
it was supposed to be in a sub wheel/option/folder when you select produce flame. but that doesn't happen 9/10 times for me. so i have to do through those hoops to use produce flame.

having to double your input is already annoying let alone quad it.

Produce flame works fine on console 🤷🏻‍♂️

Is the spell saving gimmick fixed? As in going wiz 1 then cleric and learning all the spells through scrolls. Also, great guides.

thank you so much, this is so helpful!

Funny thing I just noticed, if you do the sorcerer dip at level 1 you're not profficient with simple weapons, so you can't use spears and maces

I really like going 6 eldritch knight fighter and 6 tempest cleric extra attack adds a lot of consistency and Channel divinity can be used with Markoheshkir to great effect. My general idea is to Create water > action surge > chain lightning and then on my next turn I will use sleet storm or spirit guardians and start melee fighting

Hey Cephalo, thank you for this build. I've nearly 900 hours in this game and completed deathless honour mode runs, but with some classes I just don't play them very well. I wanted to include a Temptest Cleric in my Tactician run - along with a Padlock, a Longbow Swords Bard and Karlach to throw water at enemies - and fights take so long and I need to rest quite a lot. Gale,, who is my Cleric, felt like dead weight.
This guide helped me to play a lot better, so thank you - for your videos and for making it easier for me to enjoy the game in other ways than those I know. I really appreciate it.

love these build guides

you don't need 16 dexterity, leave it at 10 and wisdom at 17, level 4 buy alert, it's necessary in any play in honor mode, get the witch's hair, Shar doesn't care.. level 8 put wisdom at 2 and stay At 20, level 12, get war caster for concentration and reaction that combines with storm cleric.

Thanks, so useful as usual

Pretty good overview, cleric is by far the strongest class in the game (unless you are doing one of those no rest challenge runs or something) and there is probably like 5 good cleric setups at any point after lvl 5. Couple of comments:

1. Imo, the best char for your cleric (in terms of power, not RP/flavor) is Halsin. I know he's annoying with how constantly horny he is, but his unique feature is worth the cringe. He has a couple of good spells always prepared, most importantly he gets misty step for free. Unlike race-based free spells, these use your spell slots instead of being once per long rest. He also gets the bear wild shape for free, and there is an item that gives you a free ws charge if you want to use it as a non-druid. Ws is garbage, though. He is also proficient with longswords in case you need to hit some things sometimes. The free spells and the weapon proficiency overlap with the tempest bonuses, so that's a waste for your setup.

2. Tempest is not that great unless multiclassed with wiz/sorc for witch bolt guaranteed crit sniping imo. The heavy armor is useful early game, but best caster armors are typically medium and robes. With radiating orb abuse, AC is not an issue anyway.

3. The best subclass for the unmodded game is light because it can easily trigger both fire acuity helm with its bonus spells and stack radiating orbs with the channel divinity ability. Potent casting gives you a way to do decent damage without wasting spell slots (I wonder if taking eb through a feat could be worth it?), which is better than the weapon damage bonus from tempest. If you use difficulty increasing mods, then you probably need life domain.

4. Unfortunatelly, as cool as the mace given to you directly by your god (or a respecced hireling) sounds, it doesn't come close to that stupid longsword you get in act 1 without even fighting anyone yet.

you had a light cleric in your video about the best party composition.....does that still stand or does Tempest overtake it now?

All the clerics. My Tav is light cleric. Shadowheart is tempest cleric. Karlach being vengeance paladin, and Astarion a pure monk. Stumbled upon this since I was looking to implement, check this out, a third, melee cleric instead of a monk, possibly a war cleric or something along that. And they are all monoclass. Just for shenanigans.

GREAT VIDEO, barely getting into the game and I appreciate the explanation for everything

I just noticed... your pfp is the old ward item from league of legends? How did I not notice, I used to main lee sin what in the world

My Dark Urge just killed my Shadow Heart in an Honour Mode run after she spared the Nightsong 😭😭😭

So I’m confused. With the prepared spells, do we have to rest to get them back? And if so am I short/long resting after each encounter?

At the moment I’m sitting on the spells for boss fights and using the spammables in normal fights getting obliterated.

I hope Twilight Domain eventually gets into BG3. It makes the most sense for Shadowheart thematically and is one of the stronger domains also.

actually tempest clerics get martial weapons too so they can use a heavy crossbow instead of light

Cool build, It would have taken me ages to figure out how to make something effective like this. Using this with a storm sorcerer has been a good time, so much aoe damage.

People sleep of life domain, pumping those heals is CLUTCH. Especially just making them a big tank with high AC so they don't get hit, then making them use mystras blessing staff and an adamantine shield, sick support

Produce Flame is indeed weird on console. I wish it would pop up in the ‘throw’ menu rather than having to select Produce Flame again and then ‘Hurl’

To prove his point on how strong command is. Had a boss that had the potential to destroy my party since i shouldnt have been there yet. So my bard and wizard cast double cloud of daggers And then shadowheart just kept recasting grovel. Completely trivialized the entire fight cause then the rest of my party took care of everyone else lol.

Can you recommend a cleric / rogue combo build with dual hand crossbows?

I used this build I. Honor mode with a Lore bard Tav a divination wizard and a battle master. All single class from your videos. What a team ! Thanks

I tend to leave her in trickery for RP reasons. Disguise self with the amulet that gives sppek with the dead which can be obtained very early on opens a lot of options to talk with stuff that has been killed. For act 2 daylight is a good spell to take with all that is going on in that act.

Protection From Evil & Good is shockingly good in the late-game, because of the four biggest problem fights in the end-game.
Aberrations (mind flayers and elder brain), Elementals (lorroakan's elemental myrmidons), Fey (auntie ethel) & Fiends (the house of hope)
It's also pretty good in Act 2 when you fight a pretty decent amount of Undead

aaand here i am again, for my other favorite character <3 I really like how well you explain things form this game, I already liked your astarion video of the same kind, thanks

Surprised on nobody commenting that he didn't actually prepare a new spell at level four.

Is their a Patch 7 version?

had a BG3 break for a long time and came back for friends who never set a foot into DD- worlds. While i enjoy the plays with them a lot i felt like i needed something with a little tingle! Came to your guides and honor mode and startet it. After whiping almost at Razlin (i will never say anything bad about hellsin again he saved my there) it has been smooth till then. only other hard encounter where the death shepperds on my way to the creche where i am right now! But command halt and tashas laughter from my swordsbard also got that. Your guides are a blessing! .... BTW does anybody by any chance know if i ... by accident .... killed the merchant and his 2 companions inside the creche but nobody else aggroed ... if i can travel back without them attacking me?! .... asking for a friend!. This and the thought of the adamantine golem are the only sweaty dreams i have. the rest i think will be doable! ... maybe the dragon! but i hope gale and my swordsbard are strong enough till then to negate that bad boy

request: sir, would you make a divine strike/melee cleric build or a melee sorcerer now that we finally have booming blade with the mystra spells

If you go 1st level sorc then you're not proficient with the weapon shown, what do you use instead?

Something I've never been able to balance out with Cleric builds is that all the BG3 Cleric Weapons need Strength to hit. The compromise, as with this build guide, is to make the Cleric a pure Spell Caster. Damage wise, and Synergy wise, Spirit Guardian Spell is just Top Drawer, but sometimes it would be nice to just smash a foe to pieces with a Mace.

I gotta love how much value true strike brings for the people on the comments 😂

Something I love the idea of doing with a tempest cleric is using create water where the enemies are stood, then using call lightning, cause the wet effect would double the damage.

The casting for Produce Flame is crap on PC as well. When I'd cast Produce Flame, the option to throw said flame was only available for the next turn. I had tried removing the spell and setting it in another slot and that did make it work properly for a while. However, when I load back into the game it was acting stupid again.

Produce Flame as it is right now is like True Strike but worse.

Does Hold Person break Sanctuary?

I try to build my clerics in to buff tanks but they always end up as some sort of ultra damage monster.

Thank you for sharing your build. Shadowheart does a lot better with these stats and as a tempest cleric.

Nice video. One small correction though, at the end of the video you say "if you are wanting to make Shadowheart good, this is the place to start." I believe what you meant to say, is "this is the place to Shart." Other than that, good video.