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WalterO’dim
2019-05-21, 08:16 AM
I’m currently playing a Hill Dwarf Stone Sorcerer 1/Arcana Cleric 4. Besides, the Sorcerer level, I’ve gone a pretty common route with my Arcana Cleric: Booming Blade and GFB from Arcana Initiate plus Magic Initiate Druid for Shillelagh.

With all that in mind, where would you go with this character?
Would you bother multiclassing in to Sorcerer (or a thrid class) any further?

Dork_Forge
2019-05-29, 12:50 PM
I’m currently playing a Hill Dwarf Stone Sorcerer 1/Arcana Cleric 4. Besides, the Sorcerer level, I’ve gone a pretty common route with my Arcana Cleric: Booming Blade and GFB from Arcana Initiate plus Magic Initiate Druid for Shillelagh.

With all that in mind, where would you go with this character?
Would you bother multiclassing in to Sorcerer (or a thrid class) any further?

Personally I find metamagic from the Sorcerer very useful, Twinned Spell for example would allow you to Booming Blade two enemies as long as they're both within 5ft of you. It also gives you the versatility of changing those Sorcery points into an additional slot if you're running low. As you seem to be pretty geared towards melee, I'd recommend dropping a level in Fighter and taking the Dueling style, adding a flat +2 to your melee cantrips will help keep your damage competitive with dedicated melee build and Second Wind will help patch up those lower hit points.

Man_Over_Game
2019-05-29, 12:54 PM
Arcana Clerics do have the specialty of fulfilling Wizard roles (Blaster, Utility specialist) as a Cleric. Because of the lack of redundancy, Ritual Caster: Wizard works exceptionally well for an Arcana Cleric. You'll end up with pretty much all of the unique Wizard gimmicks as a full level Cleric.

I think Stone Sorcery gets you access to martial weapons, right? If it does, really consider Spell Sniper. You'd be able to use Booming Blade with Reach, hitting enemies before moving away and punishing them for chasing you.

Sirithhyando
2019-05-29, 02:12 PM
Arcana Clerics do have the specialty of fulfilling Wizard roles (Blaster, Utility specialist) as a Cleric. Because of the lack of redundancy, Ritual Caster: Wizard works exceptionally well for an Arcana Cleric. You'll end up with pretty much all of the unique Wizard gimmicks as a full level Cleric.

I think Stone Sorcery gets you access to martial weapons, right? If it does, really consider Spell Sniper. You'd be able to use Booming Blade with Reach, hitting enemies before moving away and punishing them for chasing you.

To add to this, and I'm not entirely sure it works though, if you add PAM to provoke an opportunity attack when entering the threaten zone coupled with war caster, could you cast booming blade (with spell sniper... I know, 3 feats, its a lot to get this combo started, if it works) as an opportunity attack at 10'? It could trigger as soon as the attacker decide to finish his movement toward you.

Nhorianscum
2019-05-29, 03:23 PM
I’m currently playing a Hill Dwarf Stone Sorcerer 1/Arcana Cleric 4. Besides, the Sorcerer level, I’ve gone a pretty common route with my Arcana Cleric: Booming Blade and GFB from Arcana Initiate plus Magic Initiate Druid for Shillelagh.

With all that in mind, where would you go with this character?
Would you bother multiclassing in to Sorcerer (or a thrid class) any further?

Looks good. Snagging metamagic in the gap between cleric 9 and 17 is recomended unless you're going to 20 and want to rush wiz spells. Past that just go for full cleric and enjoy.