Can you cast booming blade with war caster?

Can you cast booming blade with war caster?

Booming Blade works fine with War Caster. a range of "self: x" means that you're the spell's point of origin, not its target. The Tasha's changes only stopped it from working with Spell Sniper.

Can you cast booming blade as a reaction?

Booming Blade asks for a melee weapon attack made as part of the 'cast a spell' action, which War Caster allows you to take as a reaction instead of an action. This reaction replaces the normal opporunity attack.

Can you cast booming blade on a thrown weapon?

You can cast Greenflame Blade using a weapon that can be thrown... but you can't throw the weapon as part of the spell. It must be a melee attack. Sneak Attack triggers whenever you hit with an attack using a valid weapon during a turn.

Does booming blade work with spell sniper?

Booming Blade no longer works with Spell Sniper.

Can you use booming blade on a reach weapon?

Once you have cast Booming Blade, you are no longer concerned with opportunity attacks. You can use a reach weapon to make attacks within 5 ft., and thus it can be used with Booming Blade. ... That rule does apply to reach weapons.

Can you misty step out of booming blade?

The requirement for booming blade to go off is "willing movement", which misty step is for sure. If anything if they'd argue with that, then maybe if they moved after they teleported it would go off. Misty Step is teleport, not movement.

Does a teleport trigger booming blade?

Unless you have a teleport movement speed, and used it, teleporting shouldn't trigger booming blade.

Do I need a free hand for booming blade?

You need a hand free to perform a somatic component.

Does booming blade destroy the weapon?

On the other hand, Booming Blade deals the damage of one weapon attack plus 2d8/3d8 thunder damage (levels 11-16/levels 17-20) on a hit. So whenever this 2d8/3d8 is more damage than one weapon attack, the mean damage one does is better with Booming Blade.

Who can learn booming blade?

If a class does not provide Booming Blade as a cantrip (as it holds for most "melee" classes), one can access Booming Blade through the Magic Initiate Feat, by being a High Elf or by dipping into Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard or Arcana Cleric.

Can you use Green Flame Blade with war caster?

• Green-Flame Blade now works with War Caster, since you are no longer compelled to target a second creature. Booming Blade still works with War Caster, because it only ever targeted one creature. The Spell Sniper feat was also an attractive gish option for a few reasons.

What happens when you use warcaster with booming blade?

• That`s it. We have a gish on the board, and some enemy tried to escape him provoking Opportunity Attack. With a Warcaster feat, the player performed booming blade. For that situation, the enemy choosed to move and got both primary and secondary damage - and that`s it.

Can you use polearm master with booming blade?

• One of the old favorites when it came to booming blade was to use the cantrip in combination with the Polearm Master, Spell Sniper, and War Caster feats. Polearm Master allows you to make an opportunity attack when a creature enters your reach. War Caster would let that opportunity attack be a cantip.

What happens when caster drops a booming blade?

• Caster drops a booming blade on the foe. Foe now gets to choose whether to actually move or not.