Cleric with sorcerer splash

[sorenkb]

Will my cleric lose hs ability to use heavy armor if I splash one level of sorcerer

[Angelus_dead]

Will my cleric lose hs ability to use heavy armor if I splash one level of sorcerer

No, that would only be a problem if you actually cast Sorcerer spells, which will hardly ever be valuable.

I recommend a wizard or paladin level instead of sorcerer though, which provides only a very small benefit.

[sorenkb]

I am getting mixed messages between the wizard and sorcerer. What a really want the splash for is too be able to use wands.

So Sorcerer or Wizard
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[Angelus_dead]

I am getting mixed messages between the wizard and sorcerer. What a really want the splash for is too be able to use wands.

So Sorcerer or Wizard

If it's for wands, then wizard is really better, as it also gives a metamagic feat that can be used for maximize or quicken or whatever you like. Be warned that wands of repairing have little value at high level, and that although stoneskin and blur wands are sometimes useful, they're also expensive.

[Citymorg]

If it's for wands, then wizard is really better, as it also gives a metamagic feat that can be used for maximize or quicken or whatever you like. Be warned that wands of repairing have little value at high level, and that although stoneskin and blur wands are sometimes useful, they're also expensive.

This not quite true. Repair Critical Wands are now available to buy in the Twelve. Not quite as good as using a reconstruct scroll/spell, but very useful to healing Cleric if they want to keep the WF up.

[sorenkb]

AS often as my squishy cleric hides behind the warforged character I figure the least I can do is repair them.

[branmakmuffin]

No, that would only be a problem if you actually cast Sorcerer spells, which will hardly ever be valuable.

I recommend a wizard or paladin level instead of sorcerer though, which provides only a very small benefit.

I thought people took a level of sorcerer (whatever the main class is) for spell points (always seemed kind of dumb for paladins or rangers, since they don't rely on spell points too much).

[Vagabond]

I thought people took a level of sorcerer (whatever the main class is) for spell points (always seemed kind of dumb for paladins or rangers, since they don't rely on spell points too much).

Bards, rangers, and paladins don't receive the magical training feat like clerics, wizards, and sorcerers do. So bards in particular, to a lesser degree paladins, receive an enormous amount of mana for a single level. I think most people do it to be able to self-repair as a warforged with the mana as a totally secondary benefit.

edit: frfgh double spell points from items is not a freebie it's percentage based off your sorcerer level's percent of your character level. you do not get a free 175 mana from items for a single level.

[Solmage]

The wizard is better since you will at least gain 1 extra meta magic, for maximize or empower or quicken. Sorcerer is only better if you have a high charisma (for DVs or Turn Undead)

Neither is a particularly great long term idea however, because once you have heal, sooner or later chances are your heals will start healing for 400-500 hps, critting for 1000 heal, and therefore healing WF just fine.

Also, at higher levels, the amount a wand, even cure critical wand, can cure, is very low vs the amount of damage the WF will take. At that point, you'll want to either use reconstruct scrolls, or just your heal spell and scrolls. Only UMD will help you use reconstruct scrolls.

My advice, if your only goal is to heal WF, is asking the WF to take healer's friend as much as they can, until the higher levels when you (and other clerics) get heal, at which time they can respec to only take healer's friend I. Your heal spell with a superior devotion or potency VI item will do just fine on them at that point.