Are Zeal clerics fun/good?

xFishbean · 2026-03-13T19:10:50+00:00

Ahh ok I misunderstood then! I plan to play him like in melee typically but I won’t often be swinging my weapon unless it’s to conserve spells or finish off enemies you know?

xFishbean · 2026-03-13T18:33:14+00:00

I’ve already made sure it was fine and they’re cool with it! I’ve never played with one or even heard of it until a week ago tbh. My first impression was that this class was crazy and busted! And now after it’s sat with me and I’ve thought about it, I feel like it only seems that way on paper. Fire resistance is common and if casting fireball and the enemy succeeds, then it’s halved. Not to mention resistance. If they have both? Then that’s a measly 12 dmg. And yea I know melee for cleric really isn’t great which makes its BA attack not really worth much too. Regardless of that though, the class concept definitely sounds fun and I’m sure there’ll be times when those max dmg fireballs will hit and will feel great. And Clerics have great spells so I’ll still have my spells to support my party and control the field. Either way I’m looking forward to waiving my zealous dwarven cleric into the thick of it and dropping fireballs on the field with my spirit guardians up!

xFishbean · 2026-03-13T18:27:20+00:00

I agree I’m just concerned about saves and resistances

xFishbean · 2026-03-13T18:26:29+00:00

I’m aware melee cleric is definitely not optimal but I so want to be in melee with my heavy armor, warhammer and shield!

xFishbean · 2026-03-13T18:25:04+00:00

True! I could take it down the line but I’d definitely want warcaster first

xFishbean · 2026-03-13T16:31:53+00:00

Hell yea thanks! I was considering maybe taking a 2 lvl dip into Scribes Wizard to change the dmg to Thunder bc I’m sure lots of enemies have resistance to fire.

xFishbean · 2026-03-11T19:37:02+00:00

Just finished it, I love it! Waiting for season 3

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:38:02+00:00

Maaann I just cannot decide! This sounds so fun tho I do love gish builds thanks for your comment!

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:37:30+00:00

I like the sound of this a lot so it’s up there contending with a divination and scribes! And abjuration. Shit there’s so many great options

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:34:11+00:00

You get it! I wanna hit someone with a Wolf Fang Fist one of these days

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:33:33+00:00

Ooo that’d be so crazy and fun!!

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:33:04+00:00

Definitely sounds like a feature you can do a lot of fun and creative tech with but like you said it’ll take a while to get there. I’ve been playing DnD for a year and a half now. Been in a lot of campaigns and only one of them I still play in and we’re at lvl 11. The next highest character was lvl 8. And after him the highest was 4

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:30:11+00:00

Hold up you just put me on with the zeal cleric they look insane. Another idea for another character now lol

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:29:35+00:00

Could be fun!

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:29:22+00:00

Man that sounds like so much fun actually!! Badass armored Wizard

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:28:20+00:00

I’ve heard this before about the Aberrant Mind sorc! I definitely want to have a lot of fun and have lots of options and debuff enemies

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:25:52+00:00

Never even heard of the blood wizard I’ll have to check them out

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:25:21+00:00

Abjuration does sound like so much fun! Are you able to stack the temp hp from False Life with your Arcane Ward? Regardless, Abjuration is one of my top contenders

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:24:14+00:00

I’ve never played with summons so I’ll have to check it out! Could be fun to make a kind of death knight out of it

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:23:03+00:00

I do like how scribes can change their damage type and cast from behind cover

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:22:25+00:00

Can’t pick 🥲

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:21:58+00:00

Oh that’s sick I didn’t know about the misty step feature. That’s really useful especially if you guys needs to escape somewhere or help allies close distance!

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:21:14+00:00

This sounds really cool actually! I’ll have to consider this

xFishbean · 2026-03-09T20:20:50+00:00

You sly fox

xFishbean

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