Best Life Cleric Build in Baldur's Gate 3: Best Feats, Race & More: Baldurs Feats And

Create a powerful Life Cleric build in baldurs gate 3 with a 10 Life Cleric/2 Circle of Land Druid split, focusing on healing and support spells.

The Life Cleric is a strong healing class in baldurs gate 3. By enhancing it, you can access more healing spells, improve healing efficiency, and cast spells that guarantee maximum healing output. This transforms the Cleric's ranged heals, which can be used as a bonus action to pick up downed allies, into highly effective healers capable of mitigating full attacks of damage or spells later in the game.

Build Profile:

• Life Cleric: 10 levels
• Circle of Land Druid: 2 levels

The maximum benefit from a Cleric is generally achieved at level 10, where you gain the final class feature, Divine Intervention. This spell can only be used once per playthrough and can be used for life-saving actions, damage, or creating a holy weapon. You also gain access to the highest-level spells at level 9. After level 10, you generally lose out on further scaling.

This leaves two levels to spend. Choosing Druid grants access to Cantrips like Shillelagh, which allows your attacks to use your Wisdom modifier. Wisdom is your highest stat as a Cleric, providing benefits when attacking foes if you have an action to spare. You can also acquire Goodberry for out-of-combat healing or Thorn Whip for crowd control, pulling enemies closer.

The primary feature from the Circle of Land subclass is Natural Recovery, which allows you to spend an action (in or out of combat) to restore spell slots. With only two Druid levels, you can only restore one level one spell slot. This can be crucial for recasting a clutch Healing Word as a bonus action to resurrect a distant ally, or for recasting Bless if your concentration was broken, without expending another spell slot. This clutch factor, usable once per long rest, allows you to reserve higher spell slots for more efficient healing or support spells.

Best Life Cleric Spells in Baldur's Gate 3

A combination of support and healing spells is essential for a good Cleric, regardless of subclass. This build focuses on major healing spells, supplemented by concentration spells for various situations, and crowd control options for when healing is not immediately required.

At level 5, you gain access to third-level spells, including Beacon of Hope. Beacon of Hope allows the party to be fully healed for the spell's amount and grants advantage on Wisdom and Death saving throws. As a concentration spell, it enables you to act as a pocket healer for squishier allies, a taunting class, or in any other combat predicament.

Other iconic healing spells include Mass Cure Wounds and Greater Restoration, both level 5 spells (available at Cleric level 9). These spells provide mass healing for the group or a single party member. They synergize with the Disciple of Life passive, granting an additional 2 + 5, for a total of 7 extra HP. While these values may not scale as well in the late game, an extra 7 HP can be the difference between staying up or going down, potentially allowing for a clutch play to defeat a foe, save an ally, or win the fight.

For remaining spell slots, consider crowd control (CC) spells. Bless is a consistent choice, improving allies' attack rolls and saving throws. This concentration spell lasts 10 turns; you can cast it before combat by toggling turn-based mode.

Additional CC spells like Silence, Dispel Evil and Good, Banishment, and Hold Person offer solid options when allies don't require immediate healing.

If your party needs more area-of-effect (AOE) damage, learning Spirit Guardians is also a powerful spell.

Best Cleric Feats and Items in Baldur's Gate 3

For Feats, you will likely only acquire one significant choice. War Caster is highly recommended to improve Constitution saving throws for maintaining Concentration spells. This increases the chances that your Bless and Beacon of Hope concentrations will persist in combat, providing the biggest support buffs as a Life Cleric.

Best Cleric Races and Ability Scores in Baldur's Gate 3

When creating a Cleric, consider the following ability scores:

• STR: 12
• DEX: 14
• CON: 13
• INT: 8
• WIS: 17
• CHA: 12

These scores differ slightly from Larian's recommendations because this build does not focus on dealing weapon damage, making Strength less crucial (unless playing as a War Cleric). The points saved from Strength are allocated elsewhere.