Can green flame blade be used with extra attack?
Can green flame blade be used with extra attack?
Does Green-Flame Blade activate Extra Attack? No, Extra Attack requires you to take the Attack action as your main action. Green-Flame Blade is a Cast Spell action, even though it requires you to make a melee weapon attack.
Is green flame blade good?
Okay, it is well known that Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade are some of the best cantrips in the game for gish-builds, especially for the subclasses/classes that only get one attack from their Attack action. There are many ways to take advantage of these spells and get ahold of them.
Is green flame blade a good cantrip?
Green-Flame Blade is a fantastic way to deal damage to multiple enemies, as well as beef up your damage as your character progresses since it’s one of the few cantrips that scales its damage at higher levels.
How do you use the green flame blade?
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- You take an action (This action casting a spell; a cantrip called “Green-Flame Blade”)
- As part of this action “Green-Flame Blade” you make a (only one) melee attack (“Roll d20 + attack bonus+ Whateveryouhave) against a foe in your range of the spell (5 feet), I suggest that you want to hit Orci.
Does green-flame blade stack with thirsting blade?
Nope. Thirsting Blade requires taking the Attack action.
Can I cast booming blade and attack?
When you cast Booming Blade, you take the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action. You then make a melee weapon attack as part of the spell. You cannot take an offhand attack since that requires you to take the Attack action.
Do you need a free hand to cast green flame blade?
You can use a two-handed weapon with Green-Flame Blade. Since Green-Flame Blade’s somatic element is the weapon itself, you’re fine to use it with a two-handed weapon — no free hand necessary.
Can you use Shadow blade and green flame blade?
Or is it simply how it works now by RAW to standardize wording but isn’t a balance concern. This change has nothing to do with prohibiting or allowing Shadow Blade to combine with Booming/Green-Flame Blade. It’s about fixing those two cantrips.
Can you use Shadow Blade and green flame blade?
Does green flame blade do fire damage?
On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack’s normal effects, and you can cause green fire to leap from the target to a different creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of it. The second creature takes fire damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.
Does green flame blade count as magical?
@JeremyECrawford So Green-flame blade does not count as a magic attack as far as hitting subjects with mundane attack resistance/immunity? @clancey70 @JeremyECrawford The extra damage from Green-Flame Blade is magical. The weapon damage depends on the weapon, not the cantrip.
Is thirsting blade good?
If you are a Hexblade, Thirsting Blade is fine, especially when you can get Lifedrinker at level 15. If you still aren’t happy, just pick up Improved Pact Weapon and Eldritch Smite. (Pick up Xanathar’s Guide to Everything to build a good melee damage dealer Warlock).