Can you use booming blade as a bonus action?

Can you use booming blade as a bonus action?

Booming Blade is a great cantrip for anyone who can add damage onto a single attack, can cast it as a bonus action (Quickened Spell metamagic) or reaction (Warcaster feat), or has enhanced mobility to skirmish (e.g. the Mobile feat).

How good is booming blade 5e?

Booming Blade increases the damage output for any weapon on a single attack. This can dramatically affect a caster's usefulness outside of using spells that require slots. Since it is a damage cantrip, it levels up nicely.

Can you use booming blade with spiritual weapon?

So yes, if you use your Bonus Action to cast Spiritual Weapon, you can then cast Booming Blade with your Action. On subsequent turns, you aren't casting a spell with your Bonus Action, you're simply using it to make the Spiritual Weapon attack, so the "two spells" rule doesn't apply.

Is Booming Blade bad?

1) Starting at 5th level booming blade adds extra damage to the attack, and then even more damage if the target moves. 2) It works really well with the mobile feat or for a swashbuckler who gets the spell somehow. Move in, strike, move away. The target sits there with nothing to do, or they move and take damage.

Can Eldritch Knight learn booming blade?

At 3rd level is where it starts to come together. Take Eldritch Knight, bond with shield and rapier, cantrips are Minor Illusion and Booming Blade, 1st lvl spells are Shield, Absorb Elements, and Find Familiar (for my any spell on list choice).

Do you get bonus damage with booming blade?

• It takes an action to cast the spell. This means that you cannot also take the Attack action and benefit from the Extra Attack feature that some classes possess. So no, it is a tradeoff. Booming Blade's regular bonus damage applies only if the target moves willingly. Otherwise, it does normal attack damage.

Can you combine an attack with a booming blade?

• No, You cannot combine attacks with booming blade.... Action surge gives you another whole action, which you can use to cast a spell, like Booming Blade which will give you one more attack, or if you just use a regular attack action, extra attack and two weapon fighting could apply.

Do you need a spell action to cast booming blade?

• Casting Booming Blade requires the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action. Extra Attack can be used only with the Attack Action.

What do you do with booming blade and Green Flame Blade?

• What you're doing here is casting booming blade (a cantrip) as a bonus action using the Sorcerer's Quickened Spell Metamagic, and then casting green-flame blade (a cantrip) as an action, using your regular action.