You have spirit guardians and guiding bolt, just like the light cleric, but instead of 2d10+level AoE twice, you get Crown of Stars, for 4d12 as a bonus action every round. Though at high levels the single classed crown for boss-fight radiant damage might be the divine soul sorcerer. Yup, I'll second what said: for burst/single target radiant damage, a sorcadin would be the way to go (if multiclassing) for consistent/AoE radiant damage (and if needing to stay single classed), light cleric.Īs a light cleric, at level 10 you can cast spirit guardians twice a day at 5th level (and all other fights at lower levels) for 5d8 radiant damage (save for half) each round to everything within 15' of you twice per short rest you can do 2d10+10 (save for half) to everything hostile within 30' of you (stacking with spirit guardians damage since that requires no action after the first round), and the rest of the time you can use guiding bolt on targets at range, or word of radiance for 2d6+WIS to everything within 5' of you. And with each attack doing Radiant damage, they might even be able to edge out the Sorcadin for highest total overall points of Radiant damage in a day, although it's spread out over numerous smaller amounts of Radiant damage. Or there are Sun Soul Monks, whose Radiant Sun Bolt means you are able to do Radiant damage with each of their Attacks. Make it a Protector Aasimar or Scourge Aasimar for a bit of additional racial Radiant damage.Īnother option would be a Light Cleric, whose Channel Divinity Radiance of the Dawn does AOE Radiant damage, and who also has access to the various Cleric Radiant damage spells.

(Paladin 6/Divine Soul Sorcerer X is another good division of levels for a Sorcadin, for a bit more Paladin abilities and melee capability in exchange for a bit less spellcasting and smiting than a 2/X split.) So that gets my vote for overall best Radiant damage dealer. A Sorcadin like a Paladin 2/Divine Soul Sorcerer X would have access to Paladin Smites which do Radiant damage, many more spell slots and higher level spell slots to burn for Smiting than a pure Paladin, and access to all of the Cleric's various Radiant damage spells to boot.

Radiant damage 5e