Can you Smite with Booming Blade?
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The answer to the question of whether you can smite with Booming Blade is yes, as Booming Blade is a spell that includes a melee attack with a weapon, which is a requirement for Divine Smite to be procced. This means that if your sorcerer-paladin has Booming Blade (or Green-Flame Blade), you can indeed smite with it, as a melee weapon attack is part of the spell.
Understanding Smite and Booming Blade
To understand how smite works with Booming Blade, it’s essential to grasp the basics of both Divine Smite and Booming Blade. Divine Smite is a feature that allows you to deal additional radiant damage to a target when you hit it with a melee weapon attack, using a spell slot. On the other hand, Booming Blade is a spell that deals force damage to a target and includes a melee attack with a weapon.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Can you Smite with Eldritch Blast?
No, Divine Smite cannot be used with Eldritch Blast, as Eldritch Blast does not include a melee weapon attack.
2. Can you Smite with a Thrown Melee Weapon?
No, you cannot smite with a thrown melee weapon, as throwing a weapon is considered a ranged weapon attack, which does not meet the melee attack requirement for Divine Smite.
3. Can you Smite with a Flame Blade?
Yes, you can smite with a flame blade, as Green Flame Blade can be seen as including a melee attack in the same action.
4. Should you use Booming Blade or Extra Attack?
The choice between Booming Blade and Extra Attack depends on your character’s abilities and the situation, but generally, Extra Attack is better if you have features that add more damage to each hit.
5. Can you Smite with a Ranged Weapon?
No, you cannot smite with a ranged weapon, as Divine Smite requires a melee weapon attack.
6. Can you Dual Wield with Booming Blade?
No, you cannot make an off-hand attack with Booming Blade, as it is a spell that requires the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action.
7. Can you use 2 Cantrips with Extra Attack?
No, you cannot use two cantrips with Extra Attack, as Extra Attack allows you to make multiple attacks, but you can only cast one cantrip per turn.
8. Is Booming Blade better than Extra Attack Armorer?
Booming Blade is better if you have advantage on the first hit, but Extra Attack is generally better if you have features that add more damage to each hit.
9. Is Divine Smite Doubled on a Crit?
Yes, the damage dice from Divine Smite are doubled on a critical hit, as any damage dice that are part of an attack that hits critically are doubled.
10. Can you Smite in Antimagic?
No, you cannot smite in an Antimagic Field, as Divine Smite is a spell-like ability that uses spell slots.
11. Can you Smite Twice in a Turn?
Yes, you can smite twice in a turn, as Divine Smite can be used whenever you successfully hit a creature with a melee weapon attack.
12. Can an Echo Smite?
Yes, an Echo can smite, as an Echo Knight can choose to have an attack originate from their Echo, which would include the smite effect.
13. Can you Stack Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade?
No, you cannot stack Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade, as you can only cast one cantrip per turn.
14. Can you Dual Wield and use Green Flame Blade?
No, you cannot dual wield and use Green Flame Blade, as Green Flame Blade requires a melee attack, and dual wielding requires the Attack action.
15. Can you Infinitely use Cantrips?
Yes, you can use cantrips infinitely, as any character can cast any cantrips they know at will and an unlimited number of times, unless the feature that lets them cast it specifically says otherwise.