Cleric Class Guide 2024 for D&D 5e

TIME STAMPS

00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Cleric Archetypes
02:34 - Core Traits
03:47 - Spellcasting
09:32 - Divine Order
09:56 - Channel Divinity
13:20 - Ability Score Improvements
13:56 - Blessed Strikes
14:24 - Divine Intervention
16:44 - Ability Score Allocation
19:55 - Species
22:50 - Feats
26:08 - Spells
38:26 - Subclasses
43:45 - Roleplaying a Cleric

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[theonlymatthew.l]

Just wanted to take a minute to thank you Dudes for these new Class Guides. I find them very entertaining and informative. Keep up the excellent work guys, & plz keep doing collaborations with Colby. 👍

[greyelf]

Highelf>Firebolt with Wisdom racial>Magical Initiate background origin feat>Shield, Prestidigitation, and True Strike from Wizard list>Warrior Priest archetype for martial weapons and heavy armor. That's my level 1 cleric build. I can't wait. edit: well it's not really a complete build without full spell selections from the actual cleric class but ya'll get the idea.

[AndrewThoesen]

I played a Dwarf life domain cleric in my first 5e campaign and I am shocked with what a tank he was. I had no interest in playing a Cleric but it fit the party, and being able to help has been really great.

[TheOneAverageJoe]

ik people have said it several times but this format for the class guides is really nice and satisfying great work dudes :)

[CalmBlue]

My group recently decided we’re going to run Lost Mines of Phandelver with 5e24 characters. 2 of the players haven’t kept up with the news so I’ll have link them to this channel soon.

[fabiononis]

I love how divine order can change the way you can play the same subclass, a war domain cleric can be the divine warrior who fight evil with heavy arnor and strong weapon or be the priest who brings divine power to others to fight for/ with him while standing in second line to assist others... Of course a melee cleric can assist anyways, but you can focus better on the way you want to play the class

[matthewhelmers]

So happy to see this one! Thanks, Dudes!

Also... nice haircuts both of you!

[Hjortur]

love the new "archetypes" you're describing in your new class guide videos.

[aidandunne]

Guidance actually changed: Its no longer a d4 to whatever the next skill check is, but instead a buff on all roles using a specific skill of your choice for the next minute. Dont remember if its a d4 or advantage. Either way, still a great cantrip!

[themountaintoppsychos]

20:54 I'm playing a tiefling cleric with the Cthonic lineage. I had a burst of inspiration from the idea of a yugoloth tiefling, and I came up with the backstory that his mom died while he was still a bun in the oven, and she made a deal with a Merrenoloth trying to escort her across the River Styx to allow her back into the world of the living so she could give birth. And then she tricked him and got to raise my character for several years before she was taken to the afterlife years after she had first died. And he worships the trickery god of my DM's homebrew world because he feels trickery is how he was given life so he has this strangely optimistic attitude about everything and is actually particularly religious, which is fun to play for me.

[dmnemaine]

One of my favorite 2014 characters was a knowledge cleric. What I did was dump Charisma and made Intelligence my secondary ability. He was a versatile human with the sage background and the Prodigy feat, so he ended being the party researcher with expertise in History, Religion, and Investigation. He also ended up being a polyglot because I later took the Linguist feat. He was definitely more of a support character, but still very useful in combat situations. It was one of those niche builds where I wanted a good Intelligence where most of the times clerics would dump it.

[anthonyanglim]

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[SortKaffe]

15:24 _"When you need them, you _*_Wish_*_ you had them, but you don't often prepare them."_ I see what you did there, Kelly 😂

[GangurEXE]

27:04 you're talking about 2014 guidance. 2024 guidance adds a d4 for a minute to all skill checks that the target makes with one specific skill for a minute.

[junsonofjack]

I already wanted to play a tiefling light cleric, and now I can do it with heavy armor. Would definitely descend into Avernus like this, though of course I’d take elemental adept!

[nickmillar]

A Silver Dragonborn War Cleric of Bahamut with Magic Initiate for Shield and your two favorite cantrips (maybe True Strike and Mage Hand). Warrior priest with the classic Morningstar and Shield combo. Damn that would be fun

[mikemartin]

Fantastic presentation gentlemen! As a novice player, I REALY appreciate this in depth look into the class(es). It comes at a time where I was barely getting a grasp of 5e and was looking to explore new classes and build interesting, new and fun characters. Taking this opportunity to thank you guys for your reliable and trustworthy content. Speaking for myself it has enabled me to approach the game (D&D) with less hesitation and given me a grasp of concepts, lore and game play. So thank you!😊All the best, take care!

[armphidiic]

The new True Strike really does make a compelling case for a cleric that wants to be able to smack a fool as well as spellcast.

There's some very tempting options here. I don't know when/if I'll ever get to play with the 2024 rules, but these seem pretty good.

RIP Spiritual Weapon, though.

[clarkside]

If you're a weapon-using Cleric, you might consider Shadow Touched for _Wrathful Smite._ You'll want to concentrate on _Spirit Guardians_ most of the time, so that rules out the new _Spiritual Weapon._ _Wrathful Smite_ might not seem like much, but Frightening enemies in your _Spirit Guardians_ is pretty great, especially if you corner them so they can't get closer to you and are just stuck in the _Spirit Guardians._ And the new _Wrathful Smite_ doesn't require concentration.

[DSpiritwolf]

Still think its weird that the acolyte background is very thematic for a cleric but not very good of a background choice given the ability score choices. It's honestly pretty frustrating and wouldn't mind if they changed it in an errata