What is the main stat in Pathfinder cleric?

Wisdom is your primary casting stat that dictates how you cast spells, your spells per day and any bonus spells and the higher your Wisdom is, the better your spells will be.
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What is the most important stat for a cleric?

Constitution (CON): Additional Hit Points are ALWAYS good. Intelligence (INT): Dump stat for Clerics. Wisdom (WIS): This is the most important Cleric stat as it powers your spells and rolls. Charisma (CHA): Not really required for Clerics.
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What stat does cleric cast with?

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your cleric spells. The power of your spells comes from your devotion to your deity. You use your Wisdom whenever a cleric spell refers to your spellcasting ability.
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How do you make the best cleric in Pathfinder?

Ability Scores. Wisdom is your first priority by miles as a Cloistered Cleric, as it's used for casting spells. Dexterity is a good second choice, since it will help increase your AC and keep you alive. After that, focus on Intelligence and Charisma to bolster your Skills.
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What is the best attributes for cleric?

The most important ability score for the Light Domain Cleric is 16 Wisdom followed by 16 Constitution and 14 Dexterity. Wisdom influences your spells power and percentage to land while Constitution increases health and helps with concentration saving throws.
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Is strength important for a cleric?

Clerics do not need strength. Even Tempest Clerics have access to medium armor, and all Clerics have access to the Shillelagh cantrip via Magic Initiate: Druid allowing them to use Wisdom as their combat stat.
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Do clerics need charisma Pathfinder?

Charisma affects the number of channel energy and some domain powers maybe. Also, selective channelling, is a feat that requires Charisma 13. When you heal in area with channelling, normally you also heal foes. For each bonus in Charisma, a foe is not healed when channelling if you get this feat.
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Do clerics need a god Pathfinder?

Characters who do not receive powers from a divine source may choose to be atheists or to have no deity at all. In Golarion, and PFS, a cleric must select a deity. For other worlds, or home games, non-deity specific clerics are the purview of the individual GM's.
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What do clerics cast with Pathfinder?

Spells: A cleric casts divine spells which are drawn from the cleric spell list presented in Spell Lists.
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What race goes well with cleric?

Roleplay-wise, the aasimar race is ideal for clerics, since they're descended from divine beings and have physical appearances and racial features to match. Aasimar naturally resist both necrotic and radiant damage, protecting a vulnerable cleric from many ranged attacks, and they have darkvision, too.
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What goes good with cleric?

Dungeons & Dragons clerics have no shortage of options when it comes to choosing magic items to enhance their strengths or shore up their weaknesses.
  1. 1 Ranger Offers Both Martial And Magical Benefits.
  2. 2 Druid Has Just Enough Overlap. ...
  3. 3 Paladin Offers Divine Magical Power. ...
  4. 4 Warlock Offers Unique Spellcasting Benefits. ...
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Do clerics need a God?

Clerics are driven by their faith; that faith gives them the connection to the source of magic that they need. Sometimes the source will be a divinity, and sometimes that faith will be in a divinity, but neither is mechanically necessary. The narrative point is up to the DM. No, a cleric doesn't need to worship a god.
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How do you make the strongest cleric?

The Grave Domain is hands down the best subclass for an overpowered cleric. The Grave Domain gives you many necrotic-based spells as you level up. From level one, you can heal people with zero hit points for the maximum amount the healing spell allows.
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Do clerics need dexterity?

In general no cleric benefits from a Dex build. Clerics are okay melee combatants at low levels but rapidly fall behind. If you want to melee as a cleric I'd make a Paladin or Moon Druid. That said Arcane Clerics like many Clerics don't get heavy armor so a +2 Dex modifier isn't bad.
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Is a cleric a healer?

Clerics, druids, and paladins are the most powerful classes because they're healers. Now, that doesn't just mean healing is very powerful in DnD (though it is), it also means the system wants to incentivise and reward playing them.
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What is the best deity for the cleric Pathfinder?

Don't know nearly all the gods, but from the core dieties, Sarenrae is indeed your best choice. Comes with some blasts and the fire domain, which has a decent focus spell and boosts your emblazon energy from 1d4 to 1d6.
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Can a cleric have a familiar Pathfinder?

It is dependent on the edition you are talking about. 1st Edition, you had to have access to a Wizard spell, so either a wizard, wizard multi-class (Elf or 1/2 Elf) or Bard. In 2nd Edition, I believe you could get it a few other ways. I remember clerics having familiars.
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Can clerics use metamagic pathfinder?

Yes, but only if you use the domain slot of the spell's adjusted level. If a cleric has at least one domain, then they gain one additional spell slot per level. This slot is separate from their normal spell slot progression, and can only be used to cast domain spells.
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What attribute do clerics use?

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your cleric spells. The power of your spells comes from your devotion to your deity. You use your Wisdom whenever a cleric spell refers to your spellcasting ability.
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What is the difference between a cleric and a sorcerer in Pathfinder?

More Versatile Spellcasting: Sorcerers have a more versatile spellcasting ability than clerics. They can cast any spell they know at any time (assuming they have the appropriate spell slots available), whereas clerics must prepare their spells in advance.
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Do clerics need a free hand to cast spells Pathfinder?

Yes they need a hand free to cast any spells that require somantic components like any other caster. They also need a divine focus for most of their spells, the same hand that holds the focus can be used for the somantic component I believe. There are a couple of ways around having a holy symbol though.
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Do clerics need armor?

A cleric building for effectiveness never put significant focus on both Dex and Str. They either have a focus on Strength and wear heavy armour, or they have a focus on Dex, wear medium and carry a finesse weapon so they can dump strength.
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What is the most powerful cleric subclass?

1. Twilight Domain 5e. The Twilight Domain 5e has a finger in almost every pie, and it's excellent at pretty much everything it sets out to do. Starting with a stellar spell list that mixes utility and support, plus a vital heavy armor proficiency, you're already great at many of the things a Cleric does best.
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Can a cleric serve an evil god?

You can definitely be a cleric for any deity out there. How it works within the world of your campaign is the big question, but alignment is not a limitation. For deity allowed always check with the DM first, some may have restrictions for their campaign, evil ones are sometimes off limit.
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