Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Heavy Armour through Multiclassing into Cleric - intentional? Accidental? [RESOLVED]

When you multiclass into Cleric, you *should* automatically get Light armour, medium armour and shields - and if you pick a domain that grants heavy armour, you naturally get that too, from that choice.

Here's a brief list of what you *should* be getting, in terms of proficiencies, when you pick up a multiclass level of a class:

Barbarian: Shields, simple weapons, martial weapons
Bard: Light armour, one skill proficiency (any, of your choice), one musical instrument proficiency
Cleric: Light armour, medium armour, shields
Druid: Light armour, medium armour, shields (But you also pick up the lore/philosophy based restriction against metal armour)
Fighter: Light armour, medium armour, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons
Monk: Simple weapons, shortswords
Paladin: Light armour, medium armour, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons
Ranger: Light armour, medium armour, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons, one skill proficiency (from the Ranger skill list)
Rogue: Light armour, one skill proficiency (from the Rogue skill list), thieves’ tools
Sorcerer: Nothing, sorry!
Warlock: Light armour, simple weapons
Wizard: Also Nothing!

This means that if you take a drop level of cleric, you should get light and medium at least, if you don't already have them, and heavy only if you pick a domain that grants it independently. You'll notice that even the heavy armour proficient base classes don't give heavy armour for multiclasses; Cleric subclasses are one of the very, very few places in 5e where a basic proficiency, like an armour proficiency, is granted outside of base class proficiencies, and thus stands outside of this trend.