Sage-Tips

Can a paladin smite with booming blade?

The cantrips are not like the Paladin’s smite spells; their attacks are made immediately when casting the spell. Let’s just look at booming blade: As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell’s range, otherwise the spell fails.

Does booming blade stack with smite?

Yes, You Can! Booming Blade is a cantrip with a one action casting time and Wrathful Smite is a Bonus Action Spell.

How do Paladin smite spells work?

The smite spells all cause the next weapon attack that hits to do additional damage (and all of them except banishing smite and branding smite specify “melee weapon attack”) – but they all have an additional effect beyond damage that lasts for the duration of the spell, which is a significant part of why they all have …

Can you use green-flame blade with haste?

No, because the additional action granted by Haste “can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.” Booming Blade is a spell, so it is not eligible for Haste.

Can you stack green-flame blade and booming blade?

If you can combine either Shillelagh, Battle Ready, or Hex Warrior with a way of getting Green-Flame Blade and/or Booming Blade, and other features/spells that allow for you to stack as much damage on one attack as possible, you have maximized the use of these spells.

Can you smite and wrathful smite?

A paladin can use Divine Smite on the same weapon attack that benefits from a smite spell like wrathful smite.

Does wrathful smite stack?

Yes, you can use Divine Smite on the same weapon attack that benefits from a smite spell, such as wrathful smite—as long as the attack you make after casting the smite spell is a melee weapon attack.

Does booming blade work with Multiattack?

Booming Blade doesn’t work with Extra Attacks/Multi-Attacks. To compensate this Booming Blade does add a damage die every few levels. Meaning you won’t be doing double damage at all. Just your normal damage amount with 1 additional damage die.

How do you use Paladin in smite?

Paladin Smites work as follows:

1. Cast as bonus action.
2. For up to the next minute (earlier if concentration ends), your next hit with a melee weapon causes extra damage and a secondary effect.

How does wrathful smite work?

In the PHB it specifies that Wrathful Smite is a concentration spell. However after you hit a target it applies the frightened effect (should it fail a WIS saving throw). So my question is, if I hit the target and it fails its Wisdom Saving throw and the target is now frightened.

Can you use Green Flame Blade with extra attack?

For example, if you use a longsword with green-flame blade, you use your Strength modifier for the weapon’s attack and damage rolls. Second, neither green-flame blade nor booming blade works with Extra Attack or any other feature that requires the Attack action.

What are the Green-Flame Blade and booming blade spells?

Introduced in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, the green-flame blade and booming blade spells pose a number of questions, because they each do something unusual: require you to make a melee attack with a weapon as part of the spell’s casting.

What is the difference between branding Smite and booming blade?

Note that their wordings are entirely different, booming blade’s attack is made during the action used to cast the spell, whereas branding smite doesn’t grant you an attack at all, instead it only activates when you make an attack.

Can booming blade be used for extra attack damage?

Booming Blade’s regular bonus damage applies only if the target moves willingly. Otherwise, it does normal attack damage. You would only be able to use it in situations where you are using the “cast a spell” action, so is not applicable for opportunity attacks, nor could you use it with the Extra Attack feature.