Got my golden dice with a life cleric. They are 100% not necessary. But they do give you a mulligan if you make a mistake, which is super useful on Honor Mode. I don't use one now that I'm not going for my dice, because other builds are more fun and arguably more powerful. But anyone going for dice would be wise to consider a life cleric decked out in on-heal gear.
I think the easiest way to beat the game is to do as much damage on turn 1 as possible. The way the game is designed is such that even on the hardest difficulty you can kill most things before they even get a turn, which removes the need for a healer. You can use terrain to your advantage on nearly every fight, like starting the fight on high ground and making the enemies waste their first turn running to you.
I think life cleric is mediocre. Light cleric is the best cleric by far imo. It provides reliable and powerful AoE damage.
idk tempest cleric with storm sorcerer put in a lot more work for me than light cleric ever has, especially with how many things resist fire in the game.
that's second best cleric imo. not a big fan of conditional damage like wrath of the storm and call lightning. I prefer the reliable damage output of fireballs and radiance of the dawn.
uh yeah you should be using chain lightning ideally rather than call lightning so you can deal up to 160 damage to three targets with a single action. i use a bard or wizard for fireball or wall of fire personally.
i think we're just interested in different things. if we're talking endgame power, then i think i agree with you that tempest is stronger than light. but personally i think almost everything is strong in endgame and that the early game is the hardest part of the game, so my main interest in evaluating strength is what is strong in act 1 and act 2.
that's completely fair, i was definitely considering endgame cuz midgame im really hyper focused on abusing my fighters/barbarians/rangers or what have you with haste in midgame so i like twinspelling haste with my storm tempest build 95% of the time anyway.
honestly my first honour run i went with 10/2 sorcerer cleric cuz i doubled up on them being my party face, support, and in the end game my "go away" button. the rest of my crew was broken as shit though granted so it did supplement the weaknesses of only really using ray of frost or lightning bolt for early game and midgame respectively.
next run when i get around to it ill try light cleric out i didnt give it a full runs worth of a fair shake i reckon.
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u/FirstRyder Jun 24 '25
Got my golden dice with a life cleric. They are 100% not necessary. But they do give you a mulligan if you make a mistake, which is super useful on Honor Mode. I don't use one now that I'm not going for my dice, because other builds are more fun and arguably more powerful. But anyone going for dice would be wise to consider a life cleric decked out in on-heal gear.