Dwarven persist cleric build

[StPeteGamer]

DN can only cast in light armor anyway.  At high levels, you can simply ignore those extra spells (or fill them with out of combat things you can afford to fail on.)  At low levels, wearing heavy armor will hurt though.

How would wearing heavy armor hurt me? 

Depends on your Dex. If it is high enough, heavy armour becomes a detriment. The difference between mithril full platemail and mithril breastplate is 3-5 points.

Well wearing heavy armor makes dex a dump stat for me.  As Cha and Wisd are primary and Con and Str secondary having dex be a dump stat seems to be an advantage for the build no?

Also, the whole dread Nec thing would be great mechanically I would have to figue out some pretty decent RP position to have my lawful neutral priest of a good god have motivation to become a good priest after he was a dread nec.  It will be a good campaign too so I doubt my people would be keen on me rebuking undead, and yes i realize it is just there for me to pimp it out for DMM but still seems odd for a character who worships good god to be interested in rebuking undead

[AndyJames]

Those are LN gods that deal with death or the dead.

At low levels, you want to be casting those DN spells. At higher levels, when you start getting the really good buffs, you can ignore them. I think that is what he is saying.

You can go normal Cleric if you want. You just lose Knowledge Devotion and a bunch of skill points. It is your choice, but given that most people here seem to prefer damage over AC...

[StPeteGamer]

Those are LN gods that deal with death or the dead.

At low levels, you want to be casting those DN spells. At higher levels, when you start getting the really good buffs, you can ignore them. I think that is what he is saying.

You can go normal Cleric if you want. You just lose Knowledge Devotion and a bunch of skill points. It is your choice, but given that most people here seem to prefer damage over AC...

See I am completley unfamiliar with this whol devotion thing if I knew what it was that may change my mind.  Ok now that works maybe I think Annubis might be the winner there wonder if he has the planning domain in 3.5?

Roger that.  Ok so start out with something like a chain shirt and eventually upgrade to plate something like that than?

I like both if at all possible    that is why i am probably going to wind up with full plate and and a floating shield while wielding a 2-handed weapon maybe a greatsword or falchion....  falchion doesn't require EWS does it? 

We also start out with a pretty decent amount of gold.  For instance this last campaign we started at 5th level but had 30k gold to blow on items...  which if i read right blows the hell out of the per level gold value out of the DMG

Thanks again for all the help and suggestions guys I will probably sit down this weekend sometime and actually crank out a sample build and post it to help furthe the discussion...

[AndyJames]

Knowledge Devotion gives you a bonus to damage if you make the right Knowledge check. It is in Complete Champion and well worth looking at.