Embrace Your Constructed Nature! Explore the best class choices for Warforged, renowned for their resilience and versatility.
These classes synergize with Warforged traits, offering diverse play styles from armored juggernauts to agile infiltrators. Forge your path with these top selections!
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Best Classes for Warforged
5. Fighter
Primary Ability Score – Strength (STR-based), Dexterity (DEX-based)
Secondary Ability Scores – Constitution
Spellcasting Ability – Intelligence (For Eldritch Knight)
Armor Proficiencies – Light, Medium, Heavy, Shields
Weapons Proficiencies – Simple, Martial
Why the Fighter?
Warforged Fighters should increase Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence, and Constitution by +1.
Warforged Fighters is an extremely straightforward combination. Their most difficult aspect is versatility, as there are so many paths to choose from.
Putting the two together will give you deep customization that lets you fit your character to whatever play style fits with you. Just know that your character will definitely be durable and highly efficient at whatever they do.
Recommended Fighter Martial Archetypes
- Battle Master
- Echo Knight
- Eldritch Knight
- Rune Knight
- Samurai
4. Cleric
Primary Ability Score – Wisdom
Secondary Ability Scores – Constitution
Spellcasting Ability – Wisdom
Armor Proficiencies – Light, Medium, Shields
Weapons Proficiencies – Simple
Why the Cleric?
Warforged Clerics should increase Wisdom by +2 and Constitution by +1.
Warforged are known for having increasingly high AC, but when combined with a Cleric, that AC score goes beyond what you can imagine.
All you need to do is put as many points into Wisdom as possible, which is your main score anyway, and you’ll have a crazy high AC.
The extra skill proficiency can be put into a Wisdom skill, or it can be put into another skill to make you more useful across the board.
Recommended Cleric Divine Domains
- Forge
- Light
- Peace
3. Paladin
Primary Ability Scores – Charisma and Strength
Secondary Ability Score – Constitution
Spellcasting Ability – Charisma
Armor Proficiencies – Light, Medium, Heavy, Shields
Weapons Proficiencies – Simple, Martial
Why the Paladin?
Warforged Paladins should increase Strength by +2 and Charisma or Constitution by +1.
Much like Clerics, Warforged Paladins have insane AC and are incredibly durable.
However, Paladins should focus less on durability (since they already have built-in durability) and focus more on dealing damage, or else they can be ignored at their high durability would be useless.
It would be best to acquire a two-handed weapon or use a shield combined with a Longsword or some other high-damage one-handed weapon.
Recommended Paladin Sacred Oaths
- Vengeance
- Oathbreaker
2. Artificer
Primary Ability Score – Intelligence
Secondary Ability Scores – Constitution, Dexterity
Spellcasting Ability – Intelligence
Armor Proficiencies – Light, Medium, Shields
Weapons Proficiencies – Simple
Why the Artificer?
Warforged Artificers should increase Constitution by +2 and Intelligence by +1 (You can swap the two around, but this gives you a lot of durability).
Artificers already have high durability because of their infusions, but with Warforged’s Integrated Protection and Constructed Resilience, things can get out of hand.
Not to mention that the entire theme of an Artificer fits well with a Warforged.
Because they only need Intelligence and Constitution, you can focus on the core aspects of an Artificer and less on the ability scores you need.
Recommended Artificer Specialists
- Armorer
- Battle Smith
1. Barbarian
Primary Ability Score – Strength
Secondary Ability Scores – Constitution, Dexterity to a lesser extent
Armor Proficiencies – Light, Medium, Shields
Weapons Proficiencies – Simple, Martial
Why the Barbarian?
Warforged Barbarians should increase Strength by +2 and Constitution by +1.
Warforged Barbarians are pretty much unstoppable, having insanely high durability and damage.
Constructed Resilience, Sentry’s Rest, Integrated Protection, and Specialized Design all suit the Barbarian perfectly and make it one of the most difficult Barbarians to kill.
Recommended Barbarian Primal Path
- Totem Warrior
Final Thoughts
Whether you gravitate toward the unyielding resilience of a Fighter, the divine empowerment of a Cleric, or the technological magic of an Artificer, each class accentuates the Warforged’s unique mechanical and magical essence.