Tempest Cleric / Paladin Build Guide Baldur's Gate 3

A requested build guide, here is the Tempest Cleric Paladin multiclass build guide for in Baldur's Gate 3! What makes this so powerful is the Tempest Cleric can deal maximum amounts of lightning damage, and while the palladin doesn't really add a whole lot, it can give you a bit of utility and all the roleplay dialogue options of a cleric paladin. Many combinations come together with this build and it is strong. You can go two different ways with this, either a melee focus or a magic focus, but I think the magic build is even stronger. Being able to do maximum amounts of lightning damage is extremely powerful.
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[@Quantum_Bluntz]

Awesome! Imma check this out because right now I have Shadowheart as a Tempest Cleric/Storm Sorcerer. But I can see how this variant can be very cool as well! I haven’t even seen many build videos covering this multiclass.

[@JasonDunna]

Tempest cleric is one of the best classes in the game, and definitely the most overlooked! Being able to maximize lightning damage with create water is broken. Pairs well with a ice and lightning sorcerer I don’t know if you played Divinity Original Sin 2 also by Larian but that game has lots of cool terrain effects and magic damage and reminds me of some of my BG3 teams

[@onweivory1914]

Great build and video! BTW, what Mod are you using for your Tav threads, bc I like that look.

[@JasonDunna]

@@onweivory1914 No mods, it’s the Dwarvern Splintmail with light blue dye!

[@exsky5198]

perfect, thank you !!!

[@JasonDunna]

Glad you enjoyed! I have a Thor build I’m working on right now that is a tempest cleric but throws hammers as well, it’s a work in progress but it’ll be a fun build similar to this

[@exsky5198]

@@JasonDunna could you also do a light cleric paladin ? Sorry to ask so much work from you ! great vids as always

[@JasonDunna]

@@exsky5198 no no thank you for the great ideas!! I’m always looking for more build combinations so ask any time! I have a lot of fun with this because I’ve spent so much time researching and testing 😂

[@exsky5198]

@@JasonDunna my pleasure then !

[@tacosburritoyum8663]

I did something similar and it was pretty fun

[@JasonDunna]

Create water + Chain lightning channel divinity = everything dead before combat starts. If that fails have a Sword bard / sorcerer with cone of cold

[@JasonDunna]

Also love the name, tacos and burritos are yum

[@maximillianjayphoenix]

If you take magic initiate: Druid you can get Shillelagh and that scales with wisdom which is perfect for this build as there’s plenty of good quarterstaffs that have added bonuses for this build

[@pega7550]

I have a question about paladin - so I'm running a classic bardadin on Minthara, 2 lvls of paladin for the smite and 10 bard, but for some reason I can't set my smite reaction so I can choose when to use it. Do I need more lvls in paladin so I can change that?

[@JasonDunna]

It should come at level 2, press “K” and check your reactions it should be listed there

[@georgi1905]

Most broken thing is cleric 1 druid 3 😂 sanctuary and moonbeam. Or flury fighter

[@JasonDunna]

Druid is super underrated honestly

[@balduri45]

When you make black widow build 😅i am wait so long 😅

[@JasonDunna]

Here is the Black Widow build for Baldur's Gate 3! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqK0lqemm6ynd9U

[@maximillianjayphoenix]

Taking 16 in Charisma isn’t madatory due to smites not needing it for scaling so you can max wisdom and boost another ability score to alleviate some of the Multiple Attribute Dependency. Also it’s pronounced Re-Vivi-fy not Revive-A-Fy. I love using this build with 2 levels in Evocation Wizard.

[@JasonDunna]

Yeah it’s not fully necessary but I had two ways I was going with this build, one for the melee focus with 5 levels Paladin and this one. Evocation wizard goes hard with any caster!

[@MulderHiggins]

my astarion has this build 🫠. He's a cleric of Lathander just to *really* rub it in for Cazador

[@JasonDunna]

Hahahahaha i love that. Screw Cazador all my homies hate Cazador

[@MulderHiggins]

@@JasonDunna cazador's the worst. what's with all the companions and their tragic backstories!

[@JasonDunna]

the only companion with a less tragic backstory is Halsin, but even he’s been through a ton. He’s also the oldest of them by far at 350 years old so yeah maybe he’s been through a lot too…

[@MulderHiggins]

@@JasonDunna I'm *pretty* sure Halsin's family died from like a natural disaster? I'm not sure but I think so? Shar, Vlaakith, Mizora, Cazador, Mystra, like damn can these characters get a break.