Geomancer8
2017-05-15, 02:32 PM
Greetings, all. I am having a bit of trouble with some optimization tweaks to my cleric and was wondering if anybody could give me some advice. i have avidly studied the 3.5 Cleric handbook and the SRD components. We have a bit of resources available, although no Eberon sources are going to be used for this campaign. To be fair, my DM is quite gracious, but this character came about after the death of my all-time favorite character and I am just having trouble getting into him.
The basics:
Race- Khepri (from Dragons 352, a very awesome race that has some fun qualities).
Class- Right now he is lv. 6, straight Cleric.
Main Stats- 14/15/12/12/20/13
Alignment- LN (Along with her deity)
Feats so far: Weapon armor proficiency (all simple weapons/armor), heighten spell, empower spell, divine metamagic (empower spell)
Domains: Strength, Animal
What I would like is something where I can just destroy with casting, but can't lose the momentum from spells. To be honest, I REALLY REALLY would love to get an animal companion (Would the Wild Cohort work for that?!?!!), and then use my spells to just tear up stuff with that. Even if it is relegated to one animal (either a tiger/brown bear/dire ape is fine for me) I could use that. I just have no idea how to build a proper cleric and don't know what to expect. I kinda rolled poorly on the HP (only have 31 at LV. 6) and need a lot to make up for it. Any suggestions on what I can do to manipulate a nature-based, order-driven (her RP is all about order and industry), caster focused Cleric? I just don't know where to draw and this race is so fun to play around with/utilize that I don't want to fall short there. Let me know.
Thanks.
The basics:
Race- Khepri (from Dragons 352, a very awesome race that has some fun qualities).
Class- Right now he is lv. 6, straight Cleric.
Main Stats- 14/15/12/12/20/13
Alignment- LN (Along with her deity)
Feats so far: Weapon armor proficiency (all simple weapons/armor), heighten spell, empower spell, divine metamagic (empower spell)
Domains: Strength, Animal
What I would like is something where I can just destroy with casting, but can't lose the momentum from spells. To be honest, I REALLY REALLY would love to get an animal companion (Would the Wild Cohort work for that?!?!!), and then use my spells to just tear up stuff with that. Even if it is relegated to one animal (either a tiger/brown bear/dire ape is fine for me) I could use that. I just have no idea how to build a proper cleric and don't know what to expect. I kinda rolled poorly on the HP (only have 31 at LV. 6) and need a lot to make up for it. Any suggestions on what I can do to manipulate a nature-based, order-driven (her RP is all about order and industry), caster focused Cleric? I just don't know where to draw and this race is so fun to play around with/utilize that I don't want to fall short there. Let me know.
Thanks.