Elemental Blaster Cleric/Sorc SLA build

[SpartanKiller13]

Hey all,

So I saw the upcoming Cleric Domains, and what stuck out to me was the 14 level requirements to get the full benefit of a domain - leaving 6 levels for whatever else you want to multiclass with.
I'm going to use Air Domain because I like Chain Lightning, although any elemental one will synergize nicely with Sorcerer Savants - especially since Cleric Enhancement trees aren't exactly amazing.

Air domain offers Lightning Bolt & Chain Lightning as SLA's by level 14, which would allow Air Savant T5 as well as core 3 (giving Wind Dance and Lightning Bolt SLA).

A 14/6 Cleric/Sorc split running in Magister (+5 CL for Sorc) with T5 Master of Evocation (+3/+3 CL/MCL), T4 Draconic twist (+3/+3 CL/MCL), Air Savant's Core 3 (+3/+1 CL/MCL), as a Blue Dragonborn (+1/+2 CL/MCL) will be casting Chain Lightning at CL 24, Cleric Lightning Bolt at CL 19, and Sorcerer Lightning Bolt at CL 19.

Pure Cleric in Magister twisting Draconic T4 as a Blue Dragonborn will be casting Chain Lightning at CL 27, and Lightning Bolt at CL 18. 24/15 if you run in ES for a useful ED/to get wings etc.

Cleric offers Mass Heal and Mass Deathward, but 14/6 with Sorcerer trades that for Wind Dance and Displacement, which seems like a pretty great deal to me.

Also you can use Light spells with your shiny Lighting spellpower, which is nice (especially for Divine Disciple SLA's).

Master of Air bumps a pure Cleric to CL 27/27, or 24/24 outside of Magister. This build becomes 24/24/21.

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AP split would end up:

37+ in Air Savant - Core 3, most of T5.
~20 in Dragonborn - Spellpower, Evoc DC's, Wings, CL/MCL boost.
20+ into Divine Disciple - more SLA's, Spell Crit, and Universal Spellpower.

Feat order: Maximize > Empower > Quicken > SF:Evoc > GSF:Evoc > Enlarge (or Chain Lightning) > Extend (for Displacement). Can swap Enlarge or Extend with Heighten as you please.

Abilities: Wis>Cha>Con>dumpster

Leveling order is up to you; routes I can see:

• Sorc 6 first, take Fireball (trade later) and nuke until 20.
• Cleric 14 first, get Chain Lightning before worrying about Sorc.
• Cleric 9, Sorc 5, Cleric 14, Sorc 6 - Get Cleric Lighting Bolt SLA, then rush for Sorc T5, than finish it all off.

Epic Feats take Wellspring of Power > Master of Air > Intensify > Embolden.
Epic Destiny feats are up to you. Maybe Epic Spellpower > Hellball > Arcane Pulse?
Scion to Fire for the +25% Spell Crit damage and 30 Spellpower.

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Both of your SLA's average 5 damage/Caster level, so with 400 Base Spellpower (fairly achievable) you should be spamming ~750 damage spells that are either AoE or have a 50% chance to hit twice in a line at lvl 20. Level 30 with 500 Base Spellpower you should be hitting around 1k base with ~30% chance to crit for 2.3k. Lightning bolt should average around 2k.

And of course you're still a lvl 14 Cleric with a lot of spare SP's left over for buffing/healing.

Advice? I know Blast Casting isn't meta, and probably won't be viable for higher skull Reaper, but the easy Spellpower (+225/300) of metamagics being applied to super cheap SLA's appeals to me. I know blast casting is weaker in epics as well, but it seems like all the CL/MCL boosts available could make it at least a passable option? Or is it just bad?

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TL;DR: OP sees zappy Cleric stuff, wants to make more zappy by adding zappy Sorcerer stuff. Asking for advice of more experienced builders/players.

[SpartanKiller13]

Nobody? I'll pretend I'm reserving this space for future important updates but in reality I'm just bumping the thread.

[Kentpb]

Nobody? I'll pretend I'm reserving this space for future important updates but in reality I'm just bumping the thread.

I was thinking of something similar just don't like to count my eggs before they're hatched will work out my own and we can compare when it drops live. as you might know I do a lot of builds and something like this will make it to my thread

[SpartanKiller13]

I was thinking of something similar just don't like to count my eggs before they're hatched will work out my own and we can compare when it drops live. as you might know I do a lot of builds and something like this will make it to my thread

I do, I just had 3/4ths of the idea for a build and didn't want to put it on a thread like yours or the "Request a build - get a build" because those seem more for vague ideas. I'm pretty sure 90% of this is going to end up where I have it, but was just looking for thoughts etc.

Thanks for replying though!

I don't know if SLA builds are viable past early heroics, which is why I was dubious. The numbers seem decent though? Cleric offers better SLA's than any other class though.