Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Death Domain Cleric Build

This guide focuses on the essential aspects of a Death Domain Cleric build in Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3) and how to use those powers to your advantage.

Baldur’s Gate 3 build creation is a complex task balancing many factors. In this guide, we explain the new Death Domain subclass for the Cleric class. We will walk you through the most critical decisions and create a powerful build discussing: ability score, level progression, companions, weapons, armor, and consumables.

This build page has been updated for the Patch 8 version of Baldur’s Gate 3.

Cleric Class Guide in BG3

The Cleric class is known for support, healing, and various subclasses. Clerics can play a wide range of roles but generally do well as a spell casting support class due to their spell selections and subclass features. However, you gain access to different subclasses making the class great at melee combat, spell casting, or even tanking.

Why Should You Choose the Death Domain Subclass for the Cleric Class in BG3?

You should choose the death domain Cleric if you want Martial Weapon proficiency, melee damage-focused build, using necrotic damage. Similar to the Oathbreaker Paladin, this is the “bad” Cleric and is perfect for RP.

Everything About the Death Domain Cleric in Baldur’s Gate 3

What makes the Death Domain Cleric Unique is the ability to hit targets with extra necrotic damage, and use cantrips to target two enemies. Moreover, the Death Domain Cleric gains access to Martial Weapons, giving you a powerful melee damage-dealing Cleric build. Once multiclassed to gain Extra Attack, this Cleric can punish enemies with Necrotic damage and bypass resistance due to a subclass feature.

However, the downsides to the Death Domain Cleric are you need to multiclass, lacks heavy armour, and it’s difficult against undead or necrotic immune targets. Below we show you how to play this subclass in a melee domainte build meant to get up close and personal with your enemies in BG3.

Death Domain Cleric Build Pros	Death Domain Cleric Build Pros
Martial Weapons	Weak Against Undead
Necrotic Damage	Needs Multiclass
Variety of Spells	No Heavy Armour

Features and Mechanics of Death Domain Cleric

The following list presents all the essential Death Domain Cleric Build Mechanics and Features in Baldur’s Gate 3:

• Class: Cleric
• Subclass: Death Domain
• Background: Folk Hero
• Skills: Insight, Persuasion
• Ability Score
  • Strength: 8
  • Dexterity: 14
  • Constitution: 16
  • Intelligence: 8
  • Wisdom: 17
  • Charisma: 10
• Saving Throw: Wisdom and Charisma
• Armour Proficiency: Light and Medium Armour, Shields
• Weapon Proficiency: Simple, Flails, Morningstars

Character Creation

Category	Selection
Character	Origin – Custom character
Race	Half-Orc
Racial Bonus	Relentless Endurance, Savage Attacks, Darkvision
Class	Cleric
Subclass	Death Domain
Cantrips	Bursting Sinew, Sacred Flame, Guidance, Toll of Dead
Spells	Command, Guiding Bolt, Inflict Wounds, Sanctuary
Background	Folk Hero
Ability Score	STR: 8 DEX: 14 CON: 16 INT: 8 WIS: 17 CHA: 10
Skill Proficiencies	Insight, Persuasion

Race Choice for Death Domain Cleric

Half-=Orc is the best choice for a Death Domain Cleric Build because you gain Savage Attacks, dealing twice the damage on weapon melee attacks. This gives you the most burst possible and a bonus for intimidation and darkvision. The second choice is High Half-Elf, specifically for the Booming Blade Cantrip. Furthermore, a third choice is Duergar Dwarf who receives superior dark vision, Enlarage, and Invisibility spells.

Here is the best race choice for a Death Domain Cleric build in Baldur’s Gate 3:

Race	Features
Half-Orc	Relentless Endurance Savage Attacks Darkvision
High Half-Elf	Civil Militia Darkvision Fey Ancestry Free Cantrip (take Booming Blade)
Duergar Dwarf	Dwarven Resilience Duergar Resilience Superior Darkvision Dwarven Combat Training

Cleric Subclass – Death Domain

Below are the Death Domain Cleric subclass features that become available while leveling up in Baldur’s Gate 3:

• Gain Martial Weapons Proficiency (Level 1).
• Reaper (Level 1): Your Necromancy cantrips that only target 1 creature can target an additional creature.
• Channel Divinity (Level 2): Touch of Death (level 2): When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can use your Channel Divinity Charge to deal extra 5 + 2 × (Cleric level) Necrotic damage.
• Touch of Death (Level 2): When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal extra Necrotic damage.
• Domain Spells (Level 3): You gain additional spells from your domain. They are Always Prepared.
  • Blindness
  • Ray of Enfeeblement
• Domain Spells (Level 5): You gain additional spells from your domain. They are Always Prepared.
  • Animate Dead
  • Vampiric Touch
• Inescapable Destruction (Level 6): Spells you cast ignore Resistance to Necrotic Damage.
• Domain Spells (Level 7): You gain additional spells from your domain. They are Always Prepared.
  • Blight
  • Death Ward
• Divine Strike: Necrotic (Level 8): Once per turn deal 1d8 Necrotic in addition to your weapon’s damage when you make a melee attack. (Recharge: Per turn.)
• Domain Spells (Level 9): You gain additional spells from your domain. They are Always Prepared.
  • Cloudkill
• Domain Spells (Level 10): You gain additional spells from your domain. They are Always Prepared.
  • Bone Chill
  • False Life
  • Ray of Sickness

Recommended Background for Death Domain Cleric

Folk Hero is the Best Background for the Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Death Domain Cleric Build because you gain proficiency in two Wisdom skills: Animal Handling and Survival. This choice mostly influences roleplaying and dialogue options and allows you to create unique characters. Additional choices are:

1. Folk Hero: Proficiency in Animal Handling (wisdom) and Survival (wisdom). You’re a champion of the common people, challenging tyrants, and monsters to protect the helpless. Folk Hero companions in BG3 are Minsc and Wyll.
2. Acolyte:  Proficiency in Insight (wisdom) and Religion (intelligence). You have spent your life serving a temple, learning sacred rites, and providing sacrifices to the god or gods you worship. Shadowheart is an Acolyte.
3. Outlander: Proficiency in Athletics (strength) and Survival (wisdom).  You grew up in the wilds, learning to survive far from the comforts of civilization.  Outlander companions in BG3 are Halsin and Karlach. 

Ability Score

The Best Ability Score for Death Domain Cleric Build is 17 Wisdom, 16 Constitution, and 14 Dexerity. Wisdom is used for your spell casting, while constitution is health and concentration saving throws. This build will use medium armour, so 14 Dexterity is recommended.

However, we recommend using a strength-based approach to the Death Domain Cleric. Therefore, consider using the Elixir of Hill Giant Strength at all times. This allows you to leave your Strength at 8, but increase it to 21 at all times depending on crafting materials. If you find that painful to do, drop Wisdom to 15, Constitution to 14, and increase Strength. Moreover, look to increase Wisdom to an even number in Act 1 by getting Auntie Ethel’s Hair a permanent bonus.

For maximum effectiveness, use Elixir of Hill Giant until Act 3. Then use Cloud Giant or Hill Giant Gloves.

Below is the best ability score for a Death Domain Cleric in Baldur’s Gate 3:

Ability	Recommended Score
Strength	8
Dexterity	14
Constitution	16
Intelligence	8
Wisdom	17
Charisma	10

You can increase your ability score via a quest in Act 1, Act 2, and Act 3. Make sure to check out our Permanent bonus guide on how you can boost your ability score through quests.

Recommended Skills for Death Domain Cleric

Insight and persuasion are the best skills for the Cleric in Baldur’s Gate 3 because they aid in dialogue, exploration, and discovery. In Baldur’s Gate 3, skills represent the abilities and proficiencies of your character that allow them to perform various actions and interact with the game world. Skills are associated with specific attributes and are used to determine the success or effectiveness of certain actions or abilities. They can be edited during character creation or with companions, during respec or reroll screen.

Here are the best skills for the Death Domain Cleric in Baldur’s Gate 3:

• Insight: The character is more likely they will succeed on Insight Checks to detect lies and read people’s body language.
• Persuasion: The character is more to influence dialogue and trade.

Illithid Powers For Death Domain Cleric

The best Illithid Powers for a Death Domain Cleric build are Luck of the Farm Realms, Black Hole, and Cull of the Weak. Luck of the Farm helps with critical hits and burst damage and, combined with Cull of the Weak, can trigger AOE damage passively. Black Hole requires you to take the Astral Tadpole in Act 2, but it sucks in 5 enemies, slows them, and can be recast for free. This is helpful in certain large-scale boss fights with many enemies. Below are the best Illithid Tadpole Powers for the Death Domain Cleric build in Baldur’s Gate 3:

Illithid Powers	Description
Luck of the Far Realms	When you make a successful Attack Roll against a foe, you can change that hit into a Critical Hit.
Cull of the Weak	When you bring a creature down to fewer hit points than your number of evolved Illithid powers, it dies and all nearby creatures take 1-4 Psychic damage.
Psionic Backlash	When an enemy within 9m casts a spell, you can use your reaction to inflict ld4 Psychic damage to the caster per the spell’s level.
Blackhole	Area-based suck-in that slows targets.
Repulsor	Massive area knockback that can hit friendlies.
Charm	This is the priority power you want to obtain because you can force enemies to attack something else.

Best Companions for Death Domain Cleric

Shadowheart, Gale, and Lae’zel make the best companions for the Death Domain Cleric build because you gain healing, range damage, and lockpicking.

• Shadowheart (Life Cleric) – Utilize Shadowheart to buff, heal, and stun enemies.
• Gale (Evocation Wizard) – for ranged area damage.
• Lae’zel (Fighter – Battlemaster) – have her the front-line attention-getter doing Fighter to level 12.

Best Death Domain Cleric Build – Level Progression in Baldur’s Gate 3

Level	Class	Selection
1	Cleric	Subclass: Death Domain, Bursting Sinew, Sacred Flame, Guidance, Toll of Dead, Command, Guiding Bolt, Inflict Wounds, Sanctuary
2	Cleric	Shield
3	Cleric	Spiritual Weapon, Swap Shield for Enhance Ability, Blindness, Ray of Enfeeblement
4	Cleric	Feat: Ability Improvement Wisdom +2, Guidance, Hold Person
5	Cleric	Spirit Guardians, Protection from Energy, Swap Protection from Poison for Glyph of Warding
6	Cleric	Daylight
7	Fighter	Multiclass: Fighter, Great Weapon Fighting
8	Fighter	Action Surge
9	Fighter	Subclass: Eldritch Knight (take Booming Blade Cantrip)
10	Fighter	Feat: Savage Attacker
11	Fighter	Extra Attack
12	Fighter	Feat: Alert

Level 1

With the Cleric class, you will get to choose your subclass right at Level 1, and we will of course be choosing Death Domain. Additionally, with Cleric you will unlock three cantrips and pick three prepared spells. And your subclass will give you one feature, and three domain spells which are always prepared.

Cantrips Selection

• Guidance: The target gains +1d4 bonus to Ability checks.
• Sacred Flame: Engulf a target in a flame-like radiance for 1-8 Radiant damage.
• Bursting Sinew: Explode a corpse, causing it to impale those around it, 1-10 piercing damage.
• Toll the Dead (extra from subclass): Ring the bell of impending doom. If the target is at full health, you deal 1d8 Necrotic damage instead.

Prepared Spells

• Guiding Bolt: 4d6 Radiant damage that grants Advantage on the next Attack Roll against the target. 
• Command: Command a creature to flee, move closer, freeze, drop to the ground or drop its weapon.
• Inflict Wounds: Putrefy a creature with Necrotic energy filling your hands, for 3-30 Necrotic damage.
• Sanctuary: You or an ally cannot be targeted until you attack or harm a creature. You can still take damage from area spells.

Subclass Features

• Gain Martial Weapons Proficiency
• Reaper (passive): Your Necromancy cantrips that only target 1 creature can target an additional creature.
• Bone Chill (cantrip): Prevent the target from healing until your next turn. An undead target receives Disadvantage on Attack rolls.
• False Life (spell): Bolster yourself with a necromantic facsimile of life to gain 7 temporary hit points.
• Ray of Sickness (spell): Possibly Poisons the target and deals 2-16 Poison damage.

Gameplay at level one should revolve around using Necrotic Cantrip Toll the Dead or Inflict Wounds in melee range. You can grab a two-handed weapon and medium armour from Lae’zel in the tutorial. Use the Guiding Bolt spell at range for burst damage, and cast Sanctuary on a vulnerable target. Command is your crowd control spell.

Level 2

Next, at Level 2 of the Death Domain Cleric we will get two new subclass features and the ability to choose one new spell.

• Channel Divinity: Touch of Death (subclass feature): When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can use your Channel Divinity Charge to deal extra 5 + 2 × (Cleric level) Necrotic damage.
• Touch of Death (subclass feature): When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal extra Necrotic damage.
• Shield (spell): When you are about to be hit by an enemy, use your Reaction to increase your Armour Class by 5. You also take no damage from Magic Missile. These effects last until the start of your next turn.

Now at level two you can start adding increased damage to your melee attacks using Channel Divinity Resource. Therefore, use a combination of melee attacks with Toll of the Dead depending on your spell slots.

Level 3

At Level 3 of the Death Domain Cleric you will get two more always-prepared spells from your subclass, as well as one new spell. Furthermore, with our build we’re going to choose one new spell, and also drop one old spell for a different one.

• Enhance Ability (spell): Bestow a magical enchantment upon an ally. They gain Advantage on Ability Checks with a chosen Ability.
• Spiritual Weapon (swap with Shield): Summon a floating, spectral weapon that attacks your enemies alongside you.
• Blindness (subclass spell): Limit a foe’s sight range. Attack rolls against it have Advantage and the foe attacks with Disadvantage.
• Ray of Enfeeblement (subclass spell): Weaken a foe: they deal half damage with weapon attacks using Strength.

Use Spiritual Weapon with your bonus action to create a distraction an extra damage.

Level 4

Next, upon reaching Level 4 as a Death Domain Cleric you’ll get to choose your first feat and we recommend taking an Ability Improvement for +2 Wisdom. Additionally, you can choose another cantrip and spell.

• Ability Improvement (feat): Wisdom +2
• Thaumaturgy (cantrip): gain advantage on intimidation and performance checks.
• Hold Person (spell): Hold a humanoid enemy still. They can’t Move, Act, or React. Attacks from within 3 meters are always Critical Hits.

At this level, increasing your Wisdom to 19 and Auntie Ethel’s Hair +1 will give you 20 Wisdom. This will help with spellcasting while you continue to increase melee effectiveness.

Level 5

At Level 5 of the Death Domain Cleric, you will get one class feature, one new spell, and two subclass spells. Additionally, we’ll be swapping out one old spell for a better one now that we can access Level 3 spells.

• Destroy Undead (class feature): When you’ve successfully Turned an undead using Turn Undead, it also takes 4d6 Radiant damage.
• Spirit Guardians (spell): Nearby enemies take 3d8 Radiant or 3d8 Necrotic damage per turn, and their Movement Speed is halved.
• Glyph of Warding (spell): Inscribe a circle of arcane glyphs on the ground. When stepped on by an enemy, the selected magical effect will trigger.
• Protection from Energy (swap for Protection from Poison): Touch a creature to grant it Resistance to Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder damage.
• Animate Dead (subclass spell): Animate a corpse to create an undead servant while not in combat.
• Vampiric Touch (subclass spell): Touch an enemy to siphon their life force for 3-18 Necrotic damage, and regain half as many Hit Points. For 10 turns, you can use Vampiric Touch again without expending an additional Spell Slot.

The most important spell is Spirit Guardians with Necrotic Damage. This puts a circle around you dealing tons of necrotic damage. Combine this on turn one holding concentration and charge into enemies, melting them with a passive effect.

Level 6

At Level 6 of our best Baldur’s Gate 3 Death Domain Cleric build you get another Channel Divinity charge, as well as a new spell selection.

• Daylight (spell): Enchant an item to shine like the sun or summon a sphere of sunlight that dispels all darkness around it.

Level 7

At level 7, we recommend to multiclass into a Fighter. The reason is, that you gain weapon fighting, action surge, and feats. This gives you the best output for melee damage combined with powerful spell casting. You can also multiclass into a Paladin, however that would be only to gain access to Divine Smite. Therefore, if you want spellcasting and melee power, follow below.

Next, at Level 7 we’re going to multiclass into Fighter for the remainder of the build.

• Second Wind: You regain 1d10 + Fighter Level hit points.
• Great Weapon Fighting: When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack with a Two-Handed melee weapon, that die is rerolled once.

Level 8

With a second level into Fighter at character Level 8, you’ll get access to a useful class feature called Action Surge.

• Action Surge (class feature): Immediately gain an extra Action to use this turn.

Level 9

Now with three levels into Fighter, we can choose our subclass which will be Battle Master.

Eldritch Knight Subclass Unlocked: Use this subclass if you are NOT playing a High Half-Elf specifically for Booming Blade cantrip. If you’re playing a High Half-Elf, take the Battlemaster subclass. We are assuming Eldritch Knight. 

Eldritch Knight Selections

• Booming Blade, Fire Bolt cantrips
• Shield, Chromatic Orb spells
• Longstrider for expanded

Level 10

At character Level 10 we’ll put a fourth level into Fighter and get to choose a feat. For spell take Thunderwave, and feat take Savage Attacker.

• Savage Attacker (feat): When making melee weapon attacks, you roll your damage dice twice and use the highest result.

Level 11

Character Level 11 is where you will get a huge boost in damage from the Fighter class feature Extra Attack.

Extra Attack (class feature): You can make an additional free attack after making an unarmed or weapon attack.

Level 12

Finally, at the final character Level in our best Death Domain Cleric build for Baldur’s Gate 3, we’ll put one more level into Fighter. This will allow you to choose one last feat.

• Alert (feat): You gain +5 to Initiative and can no longer be surprised.

Best Gear for Death Domain Cleric Build

Beginner

Here’s the best beginner gear, items, and equipment for Death Domain Cleric Build in Baldur’s Gate 3:

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Head	Haste Helm	Increase Movement
Cape	Deathstalker Mantle (optional)	Invisibility on Kills
Chest	Adamantine Scale Mail	16 AC
Gloves	Gloves of the Growling Underdog	Advantage on Melee
Boots	Disintegrating Night Walkers	Free Misty Step
Necklace	Broodmother’s Revenge	1d6 when healed
Ring	Strange Conduit Ring	Concentration Damage
Ring	Caustic Band	Poison Damage
Weapon 1 Main Hand	Sword of Justice	2d6 Slashing
Weapon 2 Ranged	Bow of Awareness	+1 Initiative

List of best Death Domain Cleric Baldur’s Gate 3 Equipment in Act 1:

• Haste Helm: found in Blighted Village at coordinates X: 29 Y: 405 (Alternatives Cap of Wrath).
• Deathstalker Mantle: Automatically acquired as part of Dark Urge story.
• Adamantine Scale Mail: crafted in the Underdark, Grymforge (Alternatives Luminous Armour, or Githyanki Half Plate).
• Gloves of the Growling Underdog: Chest behind Razglin’s throne room. (X:295 Y:69) (Alternatives Gloves of Dexterity, or Gloves of Missile Snaring).
• Disintegrating Night Walkers: Obtained in Gyrmforge as part of Free True Soul Nere questline (Alternatives Boots of Genial Striding, or Boots of Speed).
• Broodmother’s Revenge: Looted from by Kagha’s body in the Emerald Grove. (Alternatives Amulet of Misty Step, or Amulet of Restoration).
• Strange Conduit Ring: Looted in Githyanki Crech (Alternative Crusher’s Ring, or Ring of Absolute Force).
• Caustic Band: Obtained from merchant Derryth Bonecloak in the Myconid Colony (Alternatives Fetish of Callarduran Smoothhands, or The Sparkswall).
• Sword of Justice: Looted from Anders near Karlach (Alternatives Phalar Aluve and Adamantine Shield).
• Bow of Awareness: Sold by Vendor Roah Moonglow in the Shattered Sanctum (Alternatives Hunting Shortbow, Bow of Banshee, Titanstring Bow).

Advanced

Gear Slot	Best Gear Item	Effect
Head	Helm of Balduran	Self-healing
Cape	Cloak of Protection	+1 AC
Chest	Helldusk Armour	21 Armour Class
Gloves	Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength	23 Strength
Boots	Helldusk Boots	Mobility
Necklace	Amulet of Greater Health	23 Constitution
Ring	Killer’s Sweetheart	Auto Crit
Ring	Ring of Free Action	Ignore movement impairment
Weapon 1 Main Hand	Balduran’s Giantslayer	Best Greatsword
Weapon 2 Ranged	Hellriders	+3 initiative

Below is the best Act 3 Armor, Weapons, and Equipment for Death Domain Cleric build in BG3:

• Helm of Balduran: Obtained in Dragon’s Sanctum on an altar X: 636 Y: -964 (Alternatives Helldusk Helmet, Sarevok’s Horned Helmet, or Mask of Soul Perception).
• Cloak of Protection: Sold in Act 2 Last Light In
• Helldusk Armour: Dropped by Raphael in the House of Hope (Alternatives Armour of Agility, or Bhaalist Armour w/ Nyrulna).
• Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength: Obtained in Archive of the House of Hope (Alternatives Helldusk Gloves, Legacy of the Masters, or Craterflesh Glove).
• Helldusk Boots: In a locked chest, Wyrm’s Rock Fortress X: -32 Y: 219 (Alternative Disintegrating Night Walkers).
• Amulet of Greater Health: Found in the House of Hope in Baldur’s Gate City (Alternative Surgeon’s Subjugation Amulet, or Periapt of Wound Closure).
• Killer’s Sweetheart: Obtained from the Gauntlet of Shar in Act 2 (Alternative Ring of Protection, Risky Ring).
• Ring of Free Action: Sold in Moonrise Tower Act 2 (alternative Ring of Regeneration, or Shifting Corpus Ring).
• Balduran’s Giantslayer: Obtained as a reward for completing the Wyrmway trials (Alternatives Nyrulna or Silver Sword of the Astral Plane).
• Hellriders: Rivington X: 43 Y: -101: Sold by Ferg (Alternative Darkfire Shortbow or Fabricated Arbalest).

How to Play Death Domain Cleric

The best way to play the Death Domain Cleric is by focusing on melee damage using your channel divinity feature and Toll of Death necrotic cantrip. Using a two-handed weapon, and multiclassing to gain extra attack, you can burst down enemies with necrotic damage. You always want to cast Spirit Guardians and select necrotic damage before charging in. Use your bonus action for a spiritual weapon to create a distraction.

Below are some general tips on how to play the best Death Domain Cleric build in BG3:

• Persuasion: Try to avoid combat through dialogue if possible.
• Loot Everything: You will need a lot of gold to buy consumables, potions, and ammunition so loot and sell constantly.
• Crafting: Elixirs and potions are vital, and you need to purchase materials when trading for crafting.
• Reach Level 6: Spend the early part of the game completing every quest to reach level 6 where your power dramatically increases.
• Sell Often: Your carrying capacity will be limited so sell often, and store excessive items in your traveler’s chest.
• Stealth: Start combat in stealth if at all possible to trigger the Surprise status effect.
• Consider Illithid Powers: While it can come with an altered appearance, the powers are powerful and can help you.
• Oils + Elixiris: Combine both oils/coatings and Elixir during combat for a dual benefit.

Best Consumables, Potions, Ammunition, and Items

The following list is the best consumable items that will aid in our Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Death Domain Cleric Build Guide:

• Elixir of Bloodlust: Once per turn when you kill a foe, you gain HP 5 temporary hit points and an additional action.
• Elixir of Hill Giant Strength: Increases Strength ability score to 21 until Long Rest.
• Potion of Speed: Gain extra action, +2 AC, Advantage on Dexterity Saving Throws, and double movement speed.
• Drow Poison: Weapon poison that adds Constitution Saving Throw or becomes Poisoned and falls Asleep.
• Potion of Flying: Drink to gain a flying speed of 60ft for one hour.
• Elixir of Heroism: Gain 10 temp HP and become Blessed until a long rest.
• Potion of Greater Healing: 4d4 + 4 hit points restored.
• Oil of Accuracy: Coat Weapon. Bonus of +2 in Attack Rolls.
• Elixir of Vigilance: Drink to gain a +5 bonus to Initiative and you can’t be Surprised.

Permanent Bonuses

Throughout Baldur’s Gate 3, you will have the ability to gain permanent bonuses to your character. These can grant additional spells, ability scores, and other bonuses. Permanent Bonuses are not displayed throughout the campaign but are vital to increase overall combat performance. We have all permanent bonuses here in a guide, but the most important ones for you to collect are listed below.

Act 1	Act 2	Act 3
Auntie Ethel’s Hair: Gain +1 to an Ability Score.	Potion of Everlasting Vigour: Gain +2 Strength.	Mirror of Loss – +2 to an Ability Score of your choice.
Awakened: Use illithid powers as a Bonus Action.	Slayer Form: Ability to transform into the Slayer.	Partial Ceremorphosis: Access to tier 3 illithid Powers.
Scratch: Gain Find Familiar Scratch.	Summon Us: Allows you to summon Us.	Sweet Stone Features: Blessed permanent.
Cheeky Quasit: Gain Summon Quasit Shovel.		Statue of the Gods: +2 to Saving Throws
Loviatar’s Love: 30% Hit Points or less, you gain a +2 bonus to Attack Rolls and Wisdom saving throws.
Necromancy Of Thay: access to powerful spells in Act 3.
Volo’s Ersatz Eye: See Invisibility

Death Domain Cleric Changes in Patch 8 for BG3

Patch 8 releases 12 new subclass with the Death Domain Cleric being a strong choice for melee or necrotic spellcasters. There will also introduce new spells and cantrips that aid in combat making the patch exciting new content for Cleric fans.

Build Summary – Best Baldur’s Gate 3 Death Domain Cleric

FAQs about the Death Domain Cleric build in Baldur’s Gate 3

What abilities should the Death Domain Cleric prioritize for my class?

Focus on Wisdom and Constitution. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier and making it stronger will help hit targets and increase damage. Constitution will be used for health but also to hold concentration on important spells like Spirit Guardians.

What are the best feats for Death Domain Cleric builds?

The best feats are Savage Attacker when playing a melee martial weapon build or Spell Sniper for ranged spellcasting Death Domain Cleric builds.

What are the best multiclass combos?

The best multiclass combos for the death domain cleric or Fighter for Extra Attack, Weapon Fighting and Action Surge, or Paladin for Divine Smite.

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